As soon as Ridley called me and said, I think youre going do the next one, yeah.

I called Hans immediately and said,How do you feel about this?

Gregson-Williams revealed onstage at Deadlines Sound & Screen event Friday.

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’; Paramount Studios

And he said, Just make me proud.

Gregson-Williams wrote 100 minutes of original score forGladiator II.

I had to chase down my friend Martin Tillman, whos an electric cellist, he recalled.

He made some extraordinary noises in that field.

So, I brought them back to base here and manipulated them in the way I felt.

It was great fun.

Check out the panel video above.