Warner Bros. unreleased / unexpanded titles that may never see the light of day

[1977 1,743]

I can't think of much offhand that did receive an OST that I'm disappointed will not be expanded, other than The Witches of Eastwick and JFK. I'm not sure if much is missing from Sleepers.

 

In terms of completely unreleased stuff, these are the ones I'm sad we'll likely never see:

 

Assassins (Mancina)

The Long Kiss Goodnight* (Silvestri) 

Fair Game (Mancina)

 

One unexpanded title that does pop up a lot here is The Perfect Storm, although it's not a score I'm terribly familiar with.

 

Any others?

 

General thoughts?

 

 

*one score cue on OST does not count

[Edmilson 7,473]

Geez, I forgot that The Perfect Storm is from WB. It's one of my most wanted Horner holy grails, and now because Warners is in such a mess, the expansion may never see the light of day.

 

Better stick with the bootleg, then...

 

There's also the non-Williams Potter sequels, JW's JFK, lots of Goldenthal scores from the 90s...

[1977 1,743]

Oh yes, I forgot about Batman and Robin.

 

Demolition Man and Sphere should be possible expansions as they are Varese.

[Edmilson 7,473]

Also, there is JNH's The Postman, another score in desperate need for an expansion.

[bollemanneke 3,352]

Potter. Also, what about the titles WB greenlit before they had to tear themselves up? Would they approve those? And when will they get competent leadership?

[1977 1,743]

So I guess there isn't that much that was missed after all, I'm grateful for what was able to be released.

 

edit: I forgot about Supergirl

[Naïve Old Fart 9,553]

4 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

edit: I forgot about Supergirl

 

No you didn't! 

Don't Silva hold the rights to SUPERGIRL?

[Brónach 1,302]

is Discovery-Warner-Pentex in the business of closing or disposing of warehouses with tapes?

 

because I'm real sad about Witches

 

more cases to be made for rerecordings

[1977 1,743]

11 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

 

No you didn't! 

Don't Silva hold the rights to SUPERGIRL?

 

I thought so but I remember reading recently that it is not the case?

[FunnyML 82]

Free Willy is WB as well. The soundtrack had around 30 minutes of score, that's less than half of what Poledouris wrote for the picture.

[Yavar Moradi 2,600]

Having repeatedly listened to a complete film rip of the hour+ long Free Willy score... the existing half hour contains literally all the highlights and the vast majority of the orchestral music. If you want more synthy variants on the bonding/friendship theme, yeah there's more of it for you.

 

The real tragedy is Free Willy 2. It's also over an hour long in the film, but is orchestra/acoustic almost all the way through (with still some nice synths weaved in of course), and it has great new themes as well as great development of the old themes. It only had three cues on the soundtrack album, totaling 10.5 minutes of score... and it is honestly one of Poledouris's greatest scores, far surpassing the original in complete form IMO. And now we may never get it. 

 

I suggested Peter Bernstein's Rough Riders and Patrick Doyle's Into the West for expansion to Roger Feigelson of Intrada this past year... he revealed both were Warner Bros. controlled, alas (through subsidiaries, I think). A real bummer since about half of each score is unreleased. Also someone at FSM pointed out that my most-wanted Carter Burwell expansion (Conspiracy Theory) is Warner Bros. domain...

 

Yavar

[BrotherSound 2,242]

On 6/9/2023 at 10:17 AM, JTWfan77 said:

I'm not sure if much is missing from Sleepers.

 

There's roughly 21-22 minutes unreleased from Sleepers, if everything in the sketches was recorded:

 

[Mr. Who 919]

Does this mean no complete Hobbit releases?

[mstrox 6,651]

Not necessarily, although I’m sure it’s not top priority in the bloodletting of their ongoing merger.

MV said WB “as of 2023 (is) not working with the labels any more.”

 

A Hobbit complete release would quite probably be released by their internal label as a wider release like the LOTR CRs and not by “the labels” that MV mentioned.  Although the movies were not the critical success, audience success, or financial success that I’m sure they had hoped for - so maybe it’s the kind of thing that they’ve washed their hands of (like apparently Doug’s long-completed book) and will be dumped on the labels down the line when the doors reopen.

[1977 1,743]

4 hours ago, mstrox said:

when if the doors reopen.

 

[FunnyML 82]

On 08/09/2023 at 8:28 PM, Yavar Moradi said:

Having repeatedly listened to a complete film rip of the hour+ long Free Willy score... the existing half hour contains literally all the highlights and the vast majority of the orchestral music. If you want more synthy variants on the bonding/friendship theme, yeah there's more of it for you.

I agree on the synth part, I can live without that. But there's still some beautiful stuff missing, especially towards the end of the picture. That whacky marching band source called "The Willy Show" is fun. "The Present" is a touching 2.5min track (when Jesse breaks the window glass). "Something's Wrong" (Willy gets stage fright) is great suspense work.
The last act has almost 30 minutes of score alone, 6 of those 9 cues are unreleased. Among them is "Sabotage", my favorite unreleased cue, lots of action.
Between "Let's Free Willy!" and "Return To Freedom", which have been covered by the last score track on the album, there is still 12 minutes of unreleased score. "Stuck Truck", "Help", "Unstuck Truck" and "Almost Free" range from suspense, action to emotional. You could easily expand the album by 20 minutes and still leave out the annoying or redundant stuff!

[Corellian2019 386]

Likely no hope for Blade Runner   (or Alexander, for that matter), unless Vangelis' estate is really willing to push through all the red tape

 

Goldenthal's WB titles were already being ignored due to the 300 controversy, but at least we have leaks for Batman & Robin, Sphere, and Demolition Man (even if the latter two are incomplete)

 

Also, no hope for Pelican Brief, Conspiracy Theory, or Jack Nitzsche's work on The Exorcist, it seems