NEWS     

March 25, 2009:
     Among other scores composed by George Fenton, Fenton will be playing some of his rejected score to "Interview With the Vampire" live June 7th.  Click HERE for details.  As I post this it looks like the program has been edited and IWTV has been deleted from it, but that could change, so keep visting the link to find out.  And if you attend, please ask Fenton why it was changed, and if he could contact me. :-)

December 16, 2008:
     The 6CD boxed set of Georges Delerue contains (on CD 4) "Something Wicked This Way Comes" -- which is reportedly original tracks in a 10min suite.

     Earlier this year I reported a rejected score would be coming out by year's end.  It's been pushed back a little, but it's coming early next year.

September 6, 2008:
     Occasionally I Google my site to see where it's being mentioned and what people are talking about, about it.  One complaint was there was no sound clips.  Well, while I won't be putting up sound clips personally, I am going to now include links; some good people out there have been restoring rejected scores back to their flms, and then putting these clips up on YouTube.  About six films or so are up, some just one clips, others multiple.  The "INFO" page for scores that have one, will contain the link; if the INFO page has clips, it will say: INFO+v.

September 1, 2008:
     By the end of the year, two rejected scores will be released.

July 12, 2008:
     Ever been curious as to what Bernstein's rejected score to "A River Runs Through It" sounded like?  Wonder no more, as you can hear a whole piece HERE; it from 15:44 to 16:51, and supposedly the Main Title.

June 6, 2008:
     A rejected score people have been wanting to hear, is in the works and possibly a release before year's end.  Think: 1970's.....

January 25, 2008:
     Buysoundtrax.com is going to be releasing two days from now (the 28th) a re-recording of a rejected score, as the composer wanted to do some changes.

I have two questions for BSX, if they are reading:

1. Does this re-recording preclude a future release (not necessarily on their label) of the originally recorded score?

2. Do the masters for this score just not exist anymore?

December 13, 2007:
     MERRY CHRISTMAS



October 31, 2007:
     HAPPY HALLOWEEN

November 26, 2007:
     If this is your first time to the site, note that it will not view properly in Firefox, or -- as I just found out -- Safari.  but I've always been a preferer of Internet Explorer.

October 25, 2007:
     The rejections are starting to poor in for the holidays ... kind of a sad gift.

     Perserverence Records has CANCELLED the re-recording of "Chinatown", so you'll all have to scratch your head and still wonder.

July 22, 2007:
     New interview on THIS page where George S. Clinton talks about, among other things, his rejected score to "Scary Movie 2".

     In a post HERE, Intrada Records says their next CD will have a rejected scores on it from the 70's, but upon browsing my list, I don't feel any of the films from the 1970's fit the clue, and none of them would have a score short enough to fit on a CD that will have three scores, so that means tomorrow there will be a new title on my list, and also ... there will be a new rejected scores from 2006...

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July 2, 2007:
     Carter Burwell has put up some clips from his rejected score to "Kiss the Girls" at his site.  And hopefully "Serenity" and "The Bourne Identity" can't be far away...
HERE

I also got a nice mystery for you all to solve: CLICK ME.

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March 24, 2007:
     Over at an FSM thread, member Hellstrom is reporting "The Neptune Factor" will have the rejected (possibly) isolated.
If anyone knows how to reach him -- as I am STILL banned from there, and there is no e-mail in his profile -- let me know, and you are him, well ... my e-mail is above.

     Click HERE to watch a clips from "Troy" with Yared's score still intact; Horner just doesn't "get it", which is kind of sad and worrysome.

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February 12, 2007:
     Rumor time:
A director's cut of "Troy" is coming, as reported HERE.  As pointed out by spherical-shaped record producer Ford Thaxton, it's unlikely the film will have Yared's rejected score, especially since it wasn't completed.

Check out "The China Syndrome" for another rumor.

And something else for people who post at FSM: Reguarding John Barry and "The Incredibles", in an interview Giacchino said a demo cue was done, but they didn't like it.

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December 20, 2006:
     MERRY CHIRSTMAS -- no war on Christmas here.

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October 25, 2006:
     The other day I was trying to find people to reach, to ask about a rejected score, and the composer was dead.  The orchestrators were dead.  The director was dead.  The producer was dead.  It was then I realized I'd become something here with my site, that I had not originally intended when I started it; I'm a historian.  I gather information about scores where the maybe no one can answer anymore, what ever the source is.  I find myself in a position where I feel I need to preserve this info and find as much as I can, for one day, there may be no one to answer the questions.  It's one big history book in the making.

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October 21, 2006:
     We may get to hear a remastered, rejected Bernstien score, "A Night In the Life of Jimmy Readon", if the last line in the first post of this thread is anything.

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October 12, 2006:
     Well, a "Nacho Libre" CD is finally coming out; no word yet on whether those Beck tracks are score tracks (maybe some of his rejected score?) or songs.  Only one Elfman score track appears.

     "Lifeforce" is coming from BSX Records (BuySoundtrax.com); it's a 2CD set, and it has both Mancini and Kamen's scores.  I'm not sure what the story is behind this score change, so it never made it onto my site -- like the partial Delerue replacement on "Twins" (which I believe the CD release only contains his score).

     Interview with composer Craig Safan is going to be conducted next week, so go to scorereviews.com/forum (General Discussion) and look for the thread: What Would You Ask? -- Part 3
to get your questions in before it's too late, then ... prepair for another interview some time in the near future...

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September 21, 2006:
     Cinevox Records will release a 2CD set of "Deep Red" (Profondo Rosso, 1975); the set will contain an unknown amount of the rejected score (replaced by Golbin).

     Yeah, I know -- where the hell is "Gangs of New York"; maybe before year's end.

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June 25, 2006:
     FSM has released it's mega CD set of Elmer Bernstein.  Among the titles is Elmer's re-recording of Bernard Herrmann's rejected score to "Torn Curtain".  Also, it's a lot of money.

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June 1, 2006:
     Someone leaked it out (not me), and now Perseverance Records is admitting, and taking pre-orders for "Chinatown (rejected)".
     Also, don't forget that the rejected score to "Gangs of New York" is coming out later this year.

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May 9, 2006:
     Film Music Threasures is offering the Beltrami promo that has three of the recorded (not demo) cues from his rejected score to "Texas Rangers" for free when you buy $50.00 worth of stuff.

     Rupert Gregson-Williams is off "Zoom" and Christophe Beck is on.  Supposedly a schedulaing conflict; maybe he recorded something?

     Expect more updates after several months of dick.

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October 30, 2005:
     Here is a sampled cue from Aaryk Noctivagus's rejected score to "The Idiocy Vice":  "Umberto the Chef" (SAMPLE DOWN)

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October 17, 2005:
     Okay, appearently I only have 40 megabytes of bandwidth per day, and with this "King Kong" business, people have gone ape shit with the visiting and clicking -- which I don't mind :-) -- so, if you come and the site doesn't load, and you get an error, it'll be back on, according to my provider, about 12 midnight Mountain Time.

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Welcome to my redesigned little hole in the internet e-ground!


     "Why make a site like this Justin?  Why make a site devoted to something some composers might want to forget?"
     You're looking at it the wrong way; this site isn't about any of that.
So why then?  Well, at first it was my fascination with scores that were rejected, especially by famous composers -- it's like a new score when one wasn't done.
     But it took a different route when I remembered something that Film Score Monthly had brought up about their release for the late Ron Grainer's "The Omega Man".  They said they looked and couldn't find anything where Grainer commented on his score.  I thought that was terrible.  Such a fantastic score and we'll never know what Grainer thought about it.  And it occurred to me not a lot has been said by any of the composers who have been rejected, on their work.  So I wanted to fix that.  It's so sad that I am too late to get Bernstein or Goldsmith's comments.  I could go on about this, but I'll move onto my other reasons.

     Just because a score is rejected, doesn't mean it should disappear into obscurity.  Should Revell's "Eaters of the Dead" have gone on unheard?  Should Georges Delerue's wonderful "Something Wicked This Way Comes" have taken a ride and disappeared with age?  No.  I firmly believe these scores should be chronicled; whether or not it's Jerry Goldsmith, or some composer you've never heard of -- I try to find all scores that are known to have, or at least no contrary rumor to have been recorded.

     Rejected scores are a special bunch.  Reasons for why a score is tossed vary.  From Test Audiences, Director/composers differences, Producer differences, even the film's star and Studio Heads.  That's just some.  But sometimes a composer walks out.  John Barry walks out often.
     The film may be suffering from low cash, bad writing, lots of edits that force rescoring and thus conflict with the composer's schedule and forces the composer to leave.

     Well, after having said all that, I thank the composers who agree to do interviews and pour their heart out over what happened and I thank companies like Varese Sarabande and Film Score Monthly, who release rejected scores and give us a glimpse into what was not used.

     But for ones I am unsure as to anything was recorded, they make the "Supposedly Rejected" list.

So click away and enjoy.


Last worked on:  August 16, 2005