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with apes they just told him that they wanted a “gladiator in space” type of score, and if you listen to the commentary elfman talks about how he hates it when they pressure him to do that.
burton admitted on the “apes” commentary that he wishes they had tried some more stuff with the music. so i guess he wasn’t that happy with it
Burton wished he had more time to do extra stuff with the score. I doubt very much that Tim Burton was unhappy with the music.
with apes they just told him that they wanted a “gladiator in space” type of score…
No, they didn’t.
>>Inside.com, the entertainment news site (well, more like a online wannabe Variety) reported on 7-17-01: “Studio executives also are said to have requested significant changes in composer Danny Elfman’s score. Honchos asked the longtime Burton collaborator to make the music more ”heroic” sounding, says one source. ”They wanted to be able to sell the film as a sci-fi ‘Gladiator.” This of course created a domino effect, the next day every online movie site had qouted the Inside.com article, and days later so would the “mainstream” print and television media. The report was false, and here on MFADP I refuted the claims.
It wasn’t until last week during the press junket for PLANET OF THE APES did Danny Elfman’s side of the story break. He denied the rumors in interviews with Film Score Monthly and Soundtrack Magazine. Finally a letter to the Los Angeles Times (7-28-01) from Danny Elfman himself cleared the air for good:
“We all know that one of the most interesting and often amusing things about the Internet as “news source” is that absolutely anyone can say anything based on everything from true facts to jealousy and alien intervention. At a PLANET OF THE APES press junket in New York last week, I was asked about 100 times about the story printed in The Times of my forced “rescoring” of the music. I’m absolutely amazed. Not that the story appeared on the Net but that you printed it verbatim without checking on the validity. The facts are these: If anyone was unhappy in any way, they never told me. We not only didn’t rescore anything, but I canceled two sessions that I had been holding just in case we did need extra time and we were finished ahead of schedule.”<<
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