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 Posted:   Aug 22, 2018 - 10:09 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Films Elfman was attached to or rumored to be attached to (that I have found so far):


1992:
  • SCENT OF A WOMAN (not done). [Thomas Newman.]

    1997:
  • COMMANDMENTS (TV mini series) [Joseph Vitarelli.]

    1999:
  • HOOF BEETS (Later RUNNING FREE) [Nicola Piovani.]
  • THE IRON GIANT [Michael Kamen.] *

    2000:
  • AMERICAN PSYCHO [John Cale.]

    2002:
  • THE STEPFORD WIVES (back when Tim Burton was going to do the film)

    2003:
  • LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION (Dark Horizons had reported him as the composer).

    2004:
  • FINDING NEMO

    2007:
  • IN BLOOM (AKA: THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES) (not done)

    2010:
  • GREEN HORNET

    And of course THE HUNGER GAMES was already mentioned.


    * = In a 1995 Film Score Monthly interview, this exchange was given between the interviewer and Kamen:

    I was recently asked to rescore a film that Danny Elfman was working on. They were making deals already for me to come: "Be there and see it and set up times." And I said, "Has anybody told Danny Elfman yet?" They said, "Oh, no...!"




    Rejected scores:

    "Joy" (as previously mentioned), and I was told by somebody who worked on it, "Gattaca". Also, one addition unknown mystery: somebody, I think it was an FSM member, attended some kind of event years ago and there were composers who attended and talked about projects; Philip glass said Elfman had been rejected from a film recently [back then, of course].

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     Posted:   Aug 22, 2018 - 3:09 PM   
     By:   Pedestrian Wolf   (Member)

    Films Elfman was attached to or rumored to be attached to (that I have found so far):


    1992:
  • SCENT OF A WOMAN (not done). [Thomas Newman.]

    1997:
  • COMMANDMENTS (TV mini series) [Joseph Vitarelli.]

    1999:
  • HOOF BEETS (Later RUNNING FREE) [Nicola Piovani.]
  • THE IRON GIANT [Michael Kamen.] *

    2000:
  • AMERICAN PSYCHO [John Cale.]

    2002:
  • THE STEPFORD WIVES (back when Tim Burton was going to do the film)

    2003:
  • LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION (Dark Horizons had reported him as the composer).

    2004:
  • FINDING NEMO

    2007:
  • IN BLOOM (AKA: THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES) (not done)

    2010:
  • GREEN HORNET

    And of course THE HUNGER GAMES was already mentioned.


    * = In a 1995 Film Score Monthly interview, this exchange was given between the interviewer and Kamen:

    I was recently asked to rescore a film that Danny Elfman was working on. They were making deals already for me to come: "Be there and see it and set up times." And I said, "Has anybody told Danny Elfman yet?" They said, "Oh, no...!"






    It looks like The Iron Giant didn't even find a director until 1996, so I don't know how they could have had a rough cut ready for Kamen to view in 1995. Maybe Elfman was working on Jack or 101 Dalmatians? Or maybe Kamen was thinking of the wrong composer?

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     Posted:   Aug 23, 2018 - 2:51 AM   
     By:   Thor   (Member)

    LOVE that picture!

    Thor: “...and I think it would have been better in G minor.”

    Elfman: Thinks: (“Damn! This crazy guy’s right! But only a couple minutes more, and then, canapés...”)


    Ha, ha...sounds about right.

     
     
     Posted:   Oct 22, 2022 - 9:55 AM   
     By:   Thor   (Member)

    I've updated the list with a few things.

     
     
     Posted:   Oct 22, 2022 - 11:04 AM   
     By:   DS   (Member)

    Very interesting list. How much music did Elfman write for "American Hustle?" Was it largely rejected? The only cue I remember from the film was a very, very short one at the very beginning. I don't really remember any of the music from the commercially released cue being in the film.

     
     
     Posted:   Oct 22, 2022 - 2:25 PM   
     By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

    There's also the issue of C.D. reissues, such as "Midnight Run" which features one of Elfman's least conventional scores.

     
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