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I received a brilliant "unmentionable" of Fair Game yesterday. 67 minutes in splendid sound, plus bonus tracks from Mancina's Training Day and Bait.
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I always wondered about Andrew Sipes, the director. He never directed anything else in his career.
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I received a brilliant "unmentionable" of Fair Game yesterday. 67 minutes in splendid sound, plus bonus tracks from Mancina's Training Day and Bait.
Are you endorsing a bootleg?
(And yes, I'm aware the post was 9 years ago. But I'm pretty sure the board rules existed long before that.)
Well....technically he's not and I will explain why. While....that version exists, there was actually a "test copy" of an actual score album for Mancina's score actually pressed by Warner Bros. Records probably before the film came out in November 1995 after it was delayed for reshoots (Salma Hayek was brought in to add the sexiness that Elizabeth Pena couldn't in the original version and also added the infamous love scene between Cindy Crawford and Billy Baldwin) and was supposed to be scored by Michael Kamen and David Sanborn.
So there were plans for a release of Mancina's excellent score (which the CD itself is 55 Minutes long and I've seen this promo pop up on eBay from time to time complete with the WB logo on it going for a high price.) but when the movie bombed, WB scrapped it and still unreleased "legally" to this point (without mentioning the unmentionable). I still wish I had the picture of the copy I saw of it on eBay. Sorry folks!!!!
A similar situation would occur the following year with "The Glimmer Man" featuring Trevor Rabin's score and an album that would've also featured (and I'm trying not to laugh writing this) songs by Steven Seagal. YES! That Steven Seagal!! Those songs would appear lol on the soundtrack to "Fire Down Below". I had overheard that a soundtrack album was in the works in September 1996 by Warner by a couple of employees at Tower Records and come October when the film came out...nothing. Probably got only to the "test pressing" phase too.
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Well....technically he's not and I will explain why. While....that version exists, there was actually a "test copy" of an actual score album for Mancina's score actually pressed by Warner Bros. Records probably before the film came out in November 1995 after it was delayed for reshoots (Salma Hayek was brought in to add the sexiness that Elizabeth Pena couldn't in the original version and also added the infamous love scene between Cindy Crawford and Billy Baldwin) and was supposed to be scored by Michael Kamen and David Sanborn.
So there were plans for a release of Mancina's excellent score (which the CD itself is 55 Minutes long and I've seen this promo pop up on eBay from time to time complete with the WB logo on it going for a high price.) but when the movie bombed, WB scrapped it and still unreleased "legally" to this point (without mentioning the unmentionable). I still wish I had the picture of the copy I saw of it on eBay. Sorry folks!!!!
What you are describing sounds like it would be more properly classified as a promo.
Clearly it's not the same CD to which FB was referring.
What I'm trying to say politely, is that the thing he's mentioning comes from this source. I'm not going to endorse him about it just pointing out where it comes from exactly.
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Ten minutes in, and I already love this movie! I have a soft spot for trashy films, and this is the crowning achievement of it all. Salma Hayek with a great entrance scene and William Baldwin and Cindy Crawford as fugitives on the run. Great, great great fun!
Aaaand a great score by Mark Mancina. Has this been released?
Too bad LLL's relationship with Warner Bros. is so fraught because this would be right in their wheelhouse... it's also shame that Cindy and Salma never share a scene.
Yeah, would love a release of this, if recorded also with Kamen's rejected score. Same for Assassins btw.
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Would love to read some good liner notes about this score. Maybe even getting director Sipes to talk about it. And some words from additional composers Don Harper, Christopher Ward and John Van Tongeren.
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Kamen may not have finished "Fair Game", as he had problems on the film and left it to concentrate on "Assassins".
As for "Assassins"' and him, the score was never recorded, according to MV:
"Assassins only had a few demos recorded. An actual score was never recorded for the film. Fair Game...we don't know yet." (February, 2015)
However, the IMDb Trivia page says Donner rejected his score and gave him a chance to rescore the film. And that two of his cues are still in the film. Perhaps MV meant "Fair Game".
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