Will we still be waiting for Star Wars score expansions at the 50th anniversary?

[Tom 6,261]

I hope that I will still be waiting.  Otherwise, I would be dead.  

[Edmilson 11,393]

On 16/10/2025 at 10:48 AM, Mr. Hooper said:

"If dozens of aficionados raise a stink on internet forums and no Disney executives are there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Fixed.

[FBC Director 10,557]

I bet they won't even include the Fox Fanfare at the start of new expansion sets.

[BB-8 5,809]

You have failed me for the last time, DG!

 

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Deutsche Grammophon

 

[Mr. Hooper 7,579]

4 hours ago, kingtolkien said:

I really hope that Mike Matessino is reading this thread and is secretly happy because he is preparing expanded scores for all 9 star wars films and we will all be very very pleasantly surprised. 

Dear Mike,

 

I've never lost hope, though forces here have conspired to quash my faith...

 

I will follow you to the ends of the earth. Or until 2027.

 

Whichever comes first.

 

Sincerely,

Mr. Hooper

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 15,892]

6 hours ago, Tom said:

I hope that I will still be waiting.  Otherwise, I would be dead.  

 

At least there's a chance you're a good composer then.

[Jilal 662]

11 hours ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

I bet they won't even include the Fox Fanfare at the start of new expansion sets.

 

Wasn't the ESB one recorded with JW conducting? If so that's a good reason why it might actually be included on expansion sets.

[ThePenitentMan1 1,454]

7 minutes ago, Jilal said:

 

Wasn't the ESB one recorded with JW conducting? If so that's a good reason why it might actually be included on expansion sets.

 

And Mike included them in the '97 Editions as well!

[Jurassic Shark 15,892]

4 hours ago, Jilal said:

 

Wasn't the ESB one recorded with JW conducting? If so that's a good reason why it might actually be included on expansion sets.

 

I'd rather have this awesome take. 

 

[TolkienSS 512]

On 16/10/2025 at 3:29 PM, GerateWohl said:

Remember just how awfully the one or two petitions asking for Star Wars expansions failed with, I think, each being stuck by just 300 votes or so.

Probably the market for that isn't really as big as we think it is.

 

The niche market for any expansion of already released soundtracks is miniscule.

[Mr. Hooper 7,579]

6 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Somewhere, Alfred Newman must be rolling in his grave.

[Jurassic Shark 15,892]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

Somewhere, Alfred Newman must be rolling in his grave.

 

Yes, because he didn't think of this instrumentation. 

[Mr. Hooper 7,579]

11 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Yes, because he didn't think of this instrumentation.

It's more in line with Alfred Neuman.

 

[Marian Schedenig 11,142]

18 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

It's more in line with Alfred Neuman.

 

Same thing:

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The name Alfred E. Neuman was picked up from Alfred Newman, the music arranger from back in the 1940s and 1950s. Actually, we borrowed the name indirectly through The Henry Morgan Show. He used the name Newman for an innocuous character you'd forget in five minutes. So we started using the name Alfred Neuman. The readers insisted on putting the name and the face together, and they would call the "What, Me Worry?" face Alfred Neuman.