Musical line up and ‘first look’ extended trailer unveiled for 'Planet Earth III'

The highly-anticipated BBC Studios Natural History Unit series Planet Earth III has debuted its worldwide first look extended trailer. The trailer is accompanied by a song, created and performed by multiple Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, Mercury Prize Award nominated singer-songwriter RAYE, and Brit-winning and Grammy-nominated band Bastille, in collaboration with Emmy and BAFTA-winning composer collective Bleeding Fingers Music.

The extended trailer features the brand new track Mother Nature with beautiful compelling lyrics written and performed by RAYE, combined with Bastille frontman Dan Smith’s mesmerising vocals, that reflect the Earth’s awe, beauty, fragility and resilience, subjects highlighted throughout the series. The stunning visuals in the extended trailer provide a tantalising glimpse of the extraordinary animals from around the globe set to feature in the series, which include a leopard leaping an astounding 30ft in Southern Africa, a wild rhino walking through the busy streets of a Nepalese town and a mass of skydiving tree frogs in the Costa Rican jungle, all filmed during this five-year project.

Mother Nature, debuted globally on Greg James’s BBC Radio 1 breakfast show this morning. The Planet Earth III extended trailer reveal was released on multiple channels including BBC Earth and BBC Studios Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube accounts as well as on-air globally. It will also feature on the social media accounts of Hans Zimmer, RAYE and Bastille.

Over the last year Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, Sara Barone, producer Russell Emanuel and Bastille’s Dan Smith have collaborated across the Planet Earth III series score. These stunning soundscapes feature Dan Smith’s vocals on the opening title theme song, as well as within all episodes of the series. Their collaborative reworking of Bastille’s hit single, Pompeii entitled Pompeii MMXXIII, features on the series end credits.

Two-time Oscar winner Hans Zimmer also worked on the track with his long-term collaborators from Bleeding Fingers Music, producer Russell Emanuel and arranger Andrew Christie. Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers Music previously composed the BAFTA-nominated score to Planet Earth II, and critically acclaimed music for Blue Planet II and Frozen Planet II.