Joe Walker who worked on the editing of Dune managed to contact Zimmer, through which Edwards—who was in Thailand to meet the head of the military to grant permission for filming a sequence in Black Hawks—contacted him through a video chat on Zoom.

[6] In a September 2023 interview with MIT Technology Review, Edwards revealed that he initially planned on having a company specializing in AI-generated music replicate Zimmer's style of film score.

"[7][8] Henry Ajder, an expert in generative AI, felt that in the early days of AI-generated music, simpler tones are "pretty convincing", which would be difficult to compare with human compositions.

[13] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the "soaring choral passages" of Zimmer's score enhances Edwards' "sophisticated world-building skills" and "philosophical platitudes".

[14] Clint Worthington of Consequence wrote "Hans Zimmer’s score is appropriately booming and Zimmeresque, though it doesn’t quite escape the wall-of-sound feel of many of his previous blockbuster works.