Sometimes you go down rabbit holes, and you find things. I was listening to Carter Burwell’s THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER and I’ve always found the song “She Began to Lie” very cool. I was produced by a composer named Greg Hale Jones (RIP 2004) who allegedly also scored Simon West’s next film, TOMB RAIDER, but it was dumped in post. Weird thing is this info from Wikipedia:
“Due to post-production taking longer than expected, some major effects were left unfinished by the time the film was released in theaters. Baird re-edited the film down to 88 minutes. One of the bigger cuts on the film was changing the original score. Originally, Nathan McCree was hired to compose the score, as he had composed the music for the first three Tomb Raider games. But Paramount insisted on hiring actual movie composer. Greg Hale Jones started to work on the score with Peter Afterman in November 2000, after production was finished, and Danny Elfman composed the main theme for the film. Jones later said how once West was fired from the film, his score and Elfman’s theme were shelved. Michael Kamen was then hired and submitted demos, and composed a full score which was rejected once the film was re-edited by Baird. Graeme Revell was then brought in and he had to compose sixty minutes of music inside ten days. Jerry Goldsmith was also attached to score the film, but he couldn’t due to health problems at the time.[28][29][30][31] John Powell was also considered to score the film at one point, prior to Kamen.[32]”
I’ve never heard of Elfman being involed with TOMB RAIDER before. This can’t be right?
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