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Sep 29, 2009 - 3:26 PM
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Trekfan
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Anybody care to chime in on why composers scoring their own remakes is so rare? And, for that matter, can anybody think of more examples of composers bucking the trend and actually tackling a remake when they scored the original film?
Well, often remakes are of course separated by a certain time period, and stylistically things can change so much in the intervening years that a new production crew may impulsively wish to find a new composer. Of course, great composers can write in many styles so it may be more a perception thing than reality. Sometimes a new production team desperately wants to create their own vision and so may not employ any key production member involved with the original - or, the director of the remake already has a working relationship with the composer (like Tim Burton using Danny Elfman for "Planet of the Apes", for instance). Or, if asked, some composers may have "been there, done that" before and don't wish to revisit a similar picture.
Some remakes aren't separated by a time period but might be a foreign film concept remade "larger" in Hollywood - like "The Vanishing", "The Ring", etc. Again, the same composer might not be available, if it was a small film originally executives may be more comfortable going with a "known name", etc.
I guess the remakes of "Cape Fear" and "Psycho" with music supervision/adaptation from their original films would be worth a mention in this thread too! 
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Well, Cronenberg is remaking THE FLY (and that after having just completed an Opera version, also with Howard Shore). So we might very well be getting Shore's FLY 3.0!
I did not know that. I don't know how he can top his original, it was of the best science fiction movies of the 1980's.
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Does Cape Fear count?
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I would say that it doesn't count, because we're talking about the same composer writing a new score for the remake. In the case of the "Cape Fear" remake, Herrmann's score for the original film was just re-used.
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How about Bernard Herrmann scoring "Obsession"? That comes close to a remake of "Vertigo"...
Except for one little thing.
It wasn't a remake of VERTIGO.
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Except for one little thing.
It wasn't a remake of VERTIGO.
Well, it wasn't an authorized remake of Vertigo.
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Did Trevor Rabin write anything new for Renny Harlin's EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING after scoring Paul Schrader's DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST?
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