I imagine if John Williams WANTED something to be re-issued/expanded, HIS STANDING in the industry would have the studios bend to his wishes, regardless of some pen-pushing directives...no?
I suspect that nobody can escape the complex legal negotiation tactics going on behind the scenes. And Williams, despite his legendary status, is of no importance for the current studio regimes anymore.
Look at all the executives praising David Lynch now - after nixing his project ideas and laughing him off as not bankable. The same thing happens to everyone.
Wasn't JFK already in the works by La-La Land since at least 2016?
Sadly they never got around to it only because of the various licenses that were required to approve and probably a decision was made to pursue titles that were more accessible and easier to wrangle with. Eventually they will get around to it when this whole blockade at Warner is over.
Surely it's possible to expand JFK without the third party songs from the original album, if the songs are the cause of any licensing issues
How much music is actually missing from JFK. A substantial amount.
I dont want to go all Thor here but the JFK plays perfectly for me.
JFK is an original masterpiece and I want more unreleased cues.
There’s a conspicuous lack of Horner on here as open as those floodgates were in 2023 and 2024. I hope the messy Kickstarter for The Hand, et. al. didn’t sour the estate on getting expansions of his out the door.
I doubt it had any effect on film recordings of catalogue titles being released. The studios control those. I suspect it’s just a case of Intrada exhausting (for now) the low-hanging Horner fruit they wanted to do and could do relatively quickly, same as happened with Goldsmith after their insane slate of Goldsmith premieres and expansions released in 2020, 2021, and 2022… time to spread the love around to other composers! (Goodness, it seems like it’s John Barry’s turn, looking at the incredible past 12 months of releases that he’s had.)
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We still need an expanded legend of Zorro, which IIRC, was one of the last scores recorded in LA to qualify for the low reuse fees.
