Movies That Had 2 Completely Different Soundtracks? (Except Legend)

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I plan on writing 2 music reviews on the scores for Ridley Scott's film Legend (Jerry Goldsmith and Tangerine Dream, respectively). But it got me to thinking...

Does anyone know of any other movies that had 2 completely different scores/soundtracks?

No Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon jokes, please. :)

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

surely many silents...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean like Batman?

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Like Trainspotting?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't 2001 have an original score that Kubrick decided not to use?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(think he means actual soundtracks on the film itself, not albums)

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Metropolis, maybe?

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Harry Smith's Early Abstractions

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(think he means actual soundtracks on the film itself, not albums)

Are you sure? Joe, care to elaborate?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hitchcock's "Torn Curtain" - a complete score by Bernard Herrman, that was later taken out of the film by Hitchcock and replaced with one by John Addison.

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Edvard Grieg and Harald Sæverud both composed stage music for Ibsen's "Peer Gynt"...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just reading about this today. Apparently some Miramax-distributed Asian films like Iron Monkey, and possibly Shaolin Soccer and Fist of Legend.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Jesus Christ Superstar count? (Broadway vs film soundtrack)

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Donnie Darko has two sets of music, the 80s music and the score, which could both be described as the soundtrack. Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou have both been released more than once with different soundtracks to them.

― lupine lupin (lupinelupin), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just reading about this today. Apparently some Miramax-distributed Asian films like Iron Monkey, and possibly Shaolin Soccer and Fist of Legend.
-- sleep
interesting... but then again they were under disney. I wonder if the weinsteins will be doing things differently now. hmm....

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

RE: Metropolis
http://www.persocom.com.br/brasilia/moroder.htm

although I remember hearing something about a modern soundtrack being done by some german rock band or something I dont know its a hazy memory from my first film history class haha

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Saturday, 28 May 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Coil's Hellraiser score?

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 28 May 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

google helps http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22score+was+scrapped%22&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I know Craven's "the crow" had a separate score and soundtrack, as is probably the case with many other films. Morricone had a score rejected for the American release of "What Dreams May Come", being replaced by Michael Kamen last minute.

― Captain Entropy (Captain Entropy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry for the confusion...yes, I'm talking more about two completely separate movie scores, rather than something like score soundtrack and pop music soundtrack a la Danny Elfman and Prince for Batman (which I think had both elements featured at once on the movie anyway). But also specifically interested in movies where both score versions were or are legitimately accessible (as opposed to one score being composed but never finalized with the movie/never really seen by anyone, etc.).

Broadway versus film soundtrack like JCS doesn't count, because that's the same music just done by different people--I'm talking about instances of separate pieces of music altogether.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

the neverending story?

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(which I think had both elements featured at once on the movie anyway)

better read: "where I think the final movie incorporated elements from both anyway" (i.e., it's not like there's 2 versions of Batman, one with exclusively Danny Elfman's music and the other with exclusively Prince's tunes).

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

THX-1138. Apparently the sound engineer composed a stand-in soundtrack for the whole film by cutting up different pieces of classical music, altering the speeds, reversing them, etc. When the official composer came in, he was so impressed he simply wrote the orchestral parts based on that original collage. I'd still like to hear the original one tho..

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Monty Python and The Holy Grail originally had a complete pseudo-medieval score composed by Neil Innes, but on screening Jones & Gilliam decided it didn't convey the atmosphere of mock-heroism they were after, so a replacement was cobbled together from library music. The only bit of Innes's music kept in the film was the "Brave Sir Robin" song.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Saturday, 28 May 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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