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Bernard Herrmann turned down Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey if I remember correctly, because he wanted twice as much money because of Kubrick throwing out Alex North's score.
Jerry Goldsmith turned-down Star Trek II.
No he didn't. They couldn't afford him and, even if they could, Meyer has been clear in interviews he wanted to go in a different direction and start fresh with the music.
That was my understanding, at least in terms of cost. In some ways, Meyer got lucky that James Horner turned out to be as good as he hoped. Picking someone that relatively obscure could have gone horribly wrong, especially given how great Jerry's original is. His gamble paid off with Cliff Eidelman too.
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Many senior citizens criticize younger people for not possessing the moral standards of previous generations.
Rozsa was not the only one, either.
And yet, they aren't called dirty young men, are they?
Dirty young men are likely referred to as simply trash.
Dirty old men would love to cavort like the dirty young men, no doubt.
... senior citizens include old hags, too.
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I neglected to mention Malcolm Arnold ... who after winning an Academy Award for The Bridge on the River Kwai refused David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia.
Arnold also used his Oscar as a door opener.
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Didn't Richard Donner want Jerry Goldsmith for Superman?
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When it comes to these later Bond films, I've seen various reasons for Barry not scoring them: he wanted too much money, his agent's wanted too much money, then of course tax issues which ultimately prevented him from handling the films. It was all doomed.
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In his interview for the BBC "Sound of Cinema" programme a couple of years back, David Shire revealed that he was offered ROCKY and THE BIG BUS, and chose to do the latter.
Elmer Bernstein was approached to work on GHOSTBUSTERS II but chose not to, despite the extravagant fee involved. He also claimed to have turned down the chance to do THE GREEN BERETS, for other, em, reasons...
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Didn’t Rozsa also turn down MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY?
I also remember a funny story about Herrmann refusing William Friedkin’s offer to score THE EXORCIST. After a screening, Friedkin told him, “Why don’t you give me a score like CITIZEN KANE?” To which Herrmann responded, “Why won’t you give me a picture like CITIZEN KANE!”
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