The Lion King and The Simpsons Movie composer Hans Zimmer revealed a very interesting bit of news in an August 2007 interview with MP3.com which has been flying under everyone’s radar–until now! Talking about his upcoming projects at the time, Hans revealed that he was working with Will.i.am from Black Eyed Peas on the Madagascar sequel: “We’ve got a couple of tunes on the go. (…) This film takes place in Africa, and I’ve done a lot of things about Africa. And I said to him, ‘Look, let’s go on a road trip. Let’s go to Africa. Just with a little tape recorder, and let’s just see what happens. Let’s just meet musicians. Let’s just start jamming with musicians over there and see what happens.’ So that’s one of the loose ideas that’s just about to happen. And I’ve been tinkering around with some stuff and MP3ing it over to him and he’s just added stuff. I think he’ll make it really fun. (…) I got some crazy and outrageous ideas and even if only 10 percent make it, it’s still going to be crazy and outrageous.” The New York Daily News confirmed the following month that Will.i.am was indeed “working on the film score to Madagascar 2 [which was since renamed Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa] with Hans Zimmer.”