First off, Mr. Faltermeyer might not have wished to do the show in the first place. If you wish to ask him, I think you can contact him through his website.
Even if he wasn't asked by the producers, ROBERT DUNCAN is a very talented composer and a respected professional who knows what the hell he is doing, so pissing on him for getting the gig is more then a bit rude on your part.
Also, if they do indeed use the AXEL F tune either in the opening credits or the closing theme, Mr. Faltermeyer will make more money then if he scored the show itself.
Gotta agree somewhat with first breath. If they want this show to succeed they gotta make "feel" like the films. Any other composer no matter how talented is a disapointment. Good luck to the new guy though.
There's going to be a Beverly Hills Cop tv show and Eddie Murphy is in it? Really?
The pilot is currently shooting (for CBS), but it follows Axel Foley's son, Aaron. Murphy is executive producing and appears in the pilot, with Axel now Captain of the Detroit police department, and will make occasional guest appearances throughout the season if the show is picked up as a series. Judge Reinhold will also appear in the pilot. Rosewood has risen up through the ranks and helps in getting Aaron a spot in the Beverly Hills police department.
The pilot is actually a put pilot, which means that a network has agreed to pick up the pilot or will otherwise owe a penalty fee to the studio. I'm not that familiar with those, but I take that to mean that, regardless if they order it to series or not, CBS will still air the pilot. So we're getting a new BHC story either way.
First off, Mr. Faltermeyer might not have wished to do the show in the first place. If you wish to ask him, I think you can contact him through his website.
That's a good point - it's not out of the question that he might have been asked to do Beverly Hills Cop III and said no (he doesn't do much scoring these days).
First off, Mr. Faltermeyer might not have wished to do the show in the first place. If you wish to ask him, I think you can contact him through his website.
Even if he wasn't asked by the producers, ROBERT DUNCAN is a very talented composer and a respected professional who knows what the hell he is doing, so pissing on him for getting the gig is more then a bit rude on your part.
Also, if they do indeed use the AXEL F tune either in the opening credits or the closing theme, Mr. Faltermeyer will make more money then if he scored the show itself.
Ford A. Thaxton
Wow, Ford Thaxton tells people not to be rude. That's a good one.
And I can't see how stating what I feel is a wrong decision is me PISSING on the composer.
First off, Mr. Faltermeyer might not have wished to do the show in the first place. If you wish to ask him, I think you can contact him through his website.
That's a good point - it's not out of the question that he might have been asked to do Beverly Hills Cop III and said no (he doesn't do much scoring these days).
This is not BHC 3 (which was done in 1994), it's the BHC TV show. And he scored Cop Out in 2010. Not that long ago.
Robert Duncan is scoring. Massive disappointment. And a wrong decision.
How can you know that they're making the wrong decision if you don't know what the show will be like yet?
I just know.
Omnipotent now are we?
And your right...it is your opinion....BUT, Maybe he didn't want the job? Maybe he didn't like the way the script was going and felt it was a waste of his time to get involved with something he felt wasn't going to last? Maybe he is tired of doing the same old Axel F schtick and wanted to let someone else handle this? Maybe he was asked and just plain turned it down. You don't know what happened...and to call it a wrong decision, you are at least as likely to be blaming him as anyone else. So your backhand at the decision makers could just as easily be a backhand to the composer.
Robert Duncan is scoring. Massive disappointment. And a wrong decision.
How can you know that they're making the wrong decision if you don't know what the show will be like yet?
I just know.
Omnipotent now are we?
And your right...it is your opinion....BUT, Maybe he didn't want the job? Maybe he didn't like the way the script was going and felt it was a waste of his time to get involved with something he felt wasn't going to last? Maybe he is tired of doing the same old Axel F schtick and wanted to let someone else handle this? Maybe he was asked and just plain turned it down. You don't know what happened...and to call it a wrong decision, you are at least as likely to be blaming him as anyone else. So your backhand at the decision makers could just as easily be a backhand to the composer.
And your right...it is your opinion....BUT, Maybe he didn't want the job? Maybe he didn't like the way the script was going and felt it was a waste of his time to get involved with something he felt wasn't going to last? Maybe he is tired of doing the same old Axel F schtick and wanted to let someone else handle this? Maybe he was asked and just plain turned it down. You don't know what happened...and to call it a wrong decision, you are at least as likely to be blaming him as anyone else. So your backhand at the decision makers could just as easily be a backhand to the composer.
First Breath, your passion for Faltermeyer is clear. So I totally get the "massive disappointment" part of your post. As for the "wrong decision" part, though, I'm with so many others here. What the hell do you know about this? I mean on any level -- creative, business, political. Do you have any legitimate insight?
As others have said, there are myriad possibilities, including Faltermeyer simply not wishing to do it. A couple of other real world possibilities:
1. Maybe Faltermeyer was offered the gig but priced himself out of contention. Composers on pilots are paid a pittance at best. I shot a pilot recently where the composer was offered only the reimbursement of his costs plus "consideration for the series" (sadly, the series wasn't picked up). On CBS, on a major pilot like this, the composer would be paid, but in all likelihood not a whole lot. Ideally, the series that results is lucrative.
2. Possibly Faltermeyer wasn't up for -- or wasn't considered up for -- the grind of a weekly series schedule. Composing for a series is relentless. There is no time to rest, no time for any sort of creative block. It is rare that a series gig goes to somebody who has never worked in series television before. (You work your way up in this arena.)
3. Unless I'm mistaken, Faltermeyer lives in Munich. Even in our internet-enabled world where music can be sent around the globe via DropBox pretty much instantly, that puts him eight hours out of synch with the producers in LA. Meaning if they have a need for a new cue at 5PM, that's 1AM in Germany, where they likely can't reach their composer, and certainly can't assume he'll produce a new cue. And if Faltermeyer wants to get a creative opinion on something he's composed and uploads it at 10AM, that's 2AM in LA. On a feature, if there's enough post-production time, all that can be worked out. On a series, where a forty-minute episode needs to be scored every single week, it's just too much of a handicap.
4. Okay, the one you're inclined to be annoyed about: Maybe Les Moonves (president of CBS) said "I don't want any of that eighties shit. This has to feel modern." This is pure conjecture, of course -- I'm not putting any words into anybody's mouth! But it's the sort of thing that's said every day in the television business. Everything about the show will be a more modern take -- they won't be wearing the old clothes, for instance. And music may be one of those things.
The thing is, I'm not claiming any of the above is true -- just real possibilities. So I'm not shooting my mouth off about what's a right or a wrong decision.
One more thing: A "put pilot" technically means a series that's guaranteed to be picked up to series. But in the reality of the television business, put pilots are quite often not picked up. In exchange, there's a penalty that the network must pay the studio for not picking up the series. But those penalties are rarely paid, they're simply rolled over into future considerations. So like so much about the television business, the words have virtually no actual meaning.
This pilot has a really, really strong shot at getting on the air. (Barry Sonnenfeld is directing it.) But in the unlikely event it's not picked up, you probably will never see the pilot. They haven't aired unsold pilots for years.
