Modern Hollywood's most dominant composer is Hans Zimmer, whose credits include Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean and Sherlocks Holmes (bizarrely, early in his career the German also appeared in the line-up of The Buggles and wrote the theme to Henry Kelly's daytime BBC quiz show Going For Gold). He runs the rather ominously titled Remote Control Productions, an office complex in Santa Monica with room for plenty of synthesizers and his 15-strong team of assistant composers. (Zimmer omce said of his musicianship, "I'm not a good player, but I'm a good programmer.") It is a factory system that has more in common with an old art studio run by a grandmaster, and his assistants and trainees often graduate to their own careers.