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The first Free Willy has about half an hour of music missing, and sure I’d still buy an expansion as a Poledouris completist. But trust me: all the best and most important music is on the existing half hour of score that’s been released. The remaining stuff is a lot of short cues, synth-heavy cues, etc. When/if an expansion comes out I suspect a lot of people’s response will be, “That’s it? I guess all I needed was the original release.” Similar to the reaction many had when Intrada expanded The Hunt for Red October.
Free Willy 2 is much more sweeping and orchestral/acoustic for the full score of over an hour, and more than 50 minutes of it is unreleased. If it ever comes out that’ll be a revelation for folks.
Yavar
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Updated my first post to add a couple Michael Small 90s scores that would be great to get expanded beyond the existing Varese half hour albums. (Also I removed Peter Pan from the JNH wants list -- thanks Intrada!)
Excited to find out what Varese has in store for us tomorrow, with their second Club announcement of 2023...
Yavar
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Whoa, that was fast/early!
Well, I'm not terribly surprised (I guess I expected David Newman's Ice Age even more than Serenity), and neither am I terribly disappointed! My favorite Randy Newman score + a perfectly solid David Newman score. 
I guess now I'll add my Newman wants (besides Pleasantville, woohoo!) to my original post in this thread.
Yavar
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Oh, I thought that Death Becomes Her was indeed totally sold out!
Yavar
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Serenity cover is a bit shit.
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Yeah major WTF moment for me. The original cover was perfectly fine. And Varese has often kept original covers as the basis for DE covers in the past even when the original covers were a bit shit! (see: City Hall DE earlier this year)
Yavar
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Last Varese pair of Deluxe Editions was What Lies Beneath by Alan Silvestri and DOOM by Clint Mansell. I must have spaced out about updating this thread then because neither was on my wish list, but I do actually remember thinking What Lies Beneath was excellent in the film itself so I'll probably pick that up at some point.
Bumping this thread now because Varese has announced two more titles coming out this Friday, and they claim the two composers are both "legendary" -- will I get my Varese Holy Grail, Miklos Rozsa's Royal Philharmonic film recording of Eye of the Needle at last? Would they actually dare to expand the only David Raksin score they control in perpetuity, his magnum opus Forever Amber?? Or will it be something by Goldsmith/Bernstein/Delerue/Barry?
Yavar
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Best batch in quite some time, IMO! Rozsa and Poledouris is an amazing pairing, considering how much the latter said he was inspired/influenced by the fomer. Both great composers. I've removed For Love of the Game and Eye of the Needle from my initial wish list post.
Yavar
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