"Mark you calendars! November 7th is the release date for Sony Classical's 2CD set release of the complete score to Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace (John Williams) -- all the music in chronological order, 65 cues / 2+ hours in all"
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com

Ed

Later,
Aaron

I don't think it is going to be the cash cow that everyone thinks.

I actually don't think that it is going to sell massive numbers, except to score collectors, unless they discontinue the one disc version.

This is the version that we asked for. I think the general public that bought the first album will not replace it.

I've waited for this for a while but it must be done properly.

not just 2 years after the tremendous 2CD Special Editions (well, excluding the new Jabba song in JEDI).

Does that make any sense?

--Kyp

As I said in the previous thread, I hope there will be some continuity regarding the packaging of the prequel complete scores. The original trilogy special editions make a really cool set and I'd hate to see the prequels get similar facelifts come 2006, just to get more money.

How come sonyclassical.com doesn't mention this and Amazon etc. don't have a preorder feature?

a little overboard perhaps, but dammit, I like the score.

It's the mass editing of the score that makes me curious about this release as a whole frankly, since Lucas had a lot of cues cut up, bits spliced here and there, and mixed in with different cues throughout. How are we going to be hearing this on the CDs? Cues edited together as it is in the movie? Ok, that'd be good, but they didn't always have a nice flow to them because a good few were all spliced with bits from other cues, and if it doesnt all have a nice flow then they probably wont go with the movie edits for the 2 CD score. So what then? :-/

I wan't bloody everything here. I have a radio promo which includes the film version of the end titles (+vader breathing) and it'd be nice to have this on the new release, though minus the breath. Why? Just so we have the full recording of the theme, minus any SFX interruption.

I don't want repeats of cues on this new one like on the old one! Anakin's theme has no reason to be presented twice in its entirity on the current release, and maybe even the same for Duel of the Fates. Keep DOTF to all the cues as it appears with in the movie, and keep the edit of it in the end title mix (has a good chunk removed in the credits playback of it). Let the concert version of DOTF remain on the old score CD and dold score CD only...

Can't help but worry we wont have it all to be honest. I hope for the best and with Nov 7th as the date I will be able to buy this out in LA when I am there. Pointless repetition of full cues a la the current CD is not what I want (take your pick, 'arrival at courascant,' 'anakins theme' and DOTFm all waste space by multiple playbacks on the current CD) and if they fill it with dialogue and sound fx, by god someone @ Sony will pay!

I hope they give us the original tracks, not the movie re-edits. I'm sure most re-edits "hurt" the music. As for Vader's breathing, I'd be glad if they put it at the end. Like the giggling girls in Poltergeist.

if you are going to be in the LA area, we gotta hook up man. We just gotta.

When the say "as heard in the film," they only mean that the score will be complete and in chronological order.

Certain re-scoring stuff (almost every appearance of the Imperial March in Empire was re-tracked) would probably not be included. Aspects of the original recording that would not be obvious from the film would become clear on the 2 CD set.

Chances are, both "Anakin's Theme" and "Duel of the Fates" will be included on the new set, probably either heading side one or closing side two, or one doing each. As long as the rest of the score is there, I have no problem with this being there.

The alternate title sequence would be a great bonus, I hope it shows up as well. The breathing on the end credits of the film will probably not be appearing on this disc.

The problem here is that everyone is speculating based on what they heard on that horrible original album that makes no sense at all, and what George Lucas did with the score in the film, which, as has been noted before, is not the most musically saavy. The simple fact is that while we certainly have a very good idea of what this score sounds like (and it certainly doesn't sound much like the original album), there are aspects of it that we will all be discovering for the first time. This, to me, is fantastic.

Each expanded incarnation of Return of the Jedi, the Arista box set and the RCA Special Edition version, has added so much to the experience of listening to this score (too bad about the awful sound quality on the RCA discs) simply because there was so much music that we were not aware of, or was buried under effects in a pretty cluttered sound mix. And don't forget how great it was to have the full "The S--t Hits the Fan" sequence from Empire on disc.

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Originally posted by Swashbuckler:
Certain re-scoring stuff (almost every appearance of the Imperial March in Empire was re-tracked) would probably not be included.

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"Jabba's Theme," for example, is heard during the additional sequence with Han and Jabba. This is kind of silly, as this theme was not really established in any way until Return of the Jedi; it's use here makes one wonder why the Imperial March isn't also tracked in somewhere in this film.

E-mail me. I arrive on November 5th and am there until the 12th. I am going as part of the Home Theater Forum meet up as we're getting guided tours of Fox, Paramount and DTS along with DVD preview screenings at the two studios (sworn to secrecy over what ones). We are also going to Dave's Studio Day on the saturday, chillin with studio reps as they show off their latest and upcoming DVDs, but in my spare days there (5th to the 7th) I will be doing disney and universal, the tourist that I am...

Dan (UK)

PS: There is no "footage" from ep2 on the upcoming VHS re-issues, just 10 mins of on set stuff and for the most part, interviews with cast & crew.

I've seen them only once, and couldn't compare them directly. Can't remember too many differences.

I kind of liked the Jabba part. After all, Lucas wanted to do this when he was originally shooting the film, but had to cut it because the technology wasn't advanced enough. I understand why he put that scene into the special edition, and be honest: To use Jabba's theme is only logical.