What if VARESE SARABANDE Announced a Deluxe expanded score by Jerry Goldsmith of ALIEN!

I dont know, It just struck me that this could be a reality soon.

Its in the air. First with Total Recall, Aliens, The Omen Trilogy, This could be happening soon.

I just had a vision taht this may be in devlopment for an early 2002 release..

I hope this happens. With ALIENS rounding up recently this could be possible ..... I wish!

What would be the logistical dificulties of them releasing an expanded The Boys from Brazil which was also done in Europe?

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Originally posted by Nicolai P. Zwar:
Asides from the new "Main Title" Goldsmith wrote and the "Sleeper" motif, what is actually missing from the CD?

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There's quite a lot of unreleased material. The original score as heard on the DVD's first iso score track runs 64 minutes (counting The Landing twice, as it is used again for the take-off sequence). Like Mark said, it has much more "discovery" music, but there are unreleased bits throughout the whole score, like for the scene when the grown-up Alien attacks it's first victim, or the (gorgeuous) second half of The Droid.

And that's without the additional 30 minutes of alternates used in the film, though some of those include the pieces from Freud and the Hanson symphony (and it seems to me that the climax cue in the shuttle is the same as the original version, but I think I've never compared them directly).

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Originally posted by Richard Street:
Well, Silva also had the rights to DAMIEN: OMEN 2, but those tracks are included on Varese's DeLuxe edition.

NP: LAKE PLACID (John Ottman)

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I would have to seriously doubt Varese would release a score that another label still had rights to. I imagine Silva's rights ran out.

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Originally posted by Mark Olivarez:
I imagine Silva's rights ran out.

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In this case, I'd say this is a good sign, then:

Damien: Omen II (FilmCD 2) - Copyright 1988 Silva Screen Records Ltd. Issued under licence from PolyGram Special Products

Alien (FilmCD 3) - Copyright 1988 Silva Screen Records Ltd. Issued under licence from PolyGram Special Products

NP: Sphere (Elliot Goldenthal)

It's hard to predict what scores will be released but I would imagine we will see more Goldsmith from Varese. Based on what has been released so far I would guess that the majority of scores will be before the 90's. Maybe they could do an expanded Basic Instinct but I suspect we will probaly get some of the ones you are hoping for Marian.

Alien has always sounded pretty shrill, actually. I've never heard a sound mix of the film in which the music doesn't sound like that. I wonder, however, and I may be pelted with stones for bringing this up as a possibility, if the overly dry, unattractive sound of this recording was a production decision during the scoring sessions. It certainly gives the music an uncomfortable sound, and this is not the kind of score that one relaxes to.

Speaking of sickly-sounding albums...

I remember when I heard Basil Poledouris' Honor and Glory promo, which features a suite from Conan the Barbarian, which I had since gotten used to listening with Varese's remastered and expanded edition. At the first note of that glorious bombast, hitting me with that horrid, preremastered sound, it immediately gave me a sense of nostalgia for that old, crappy MCA (which never sounded all that good to begin with) tape that I wore the hell out of in my Walkman at high school...

ALIEN expanded and improved?

GIVE ME!
GIVE ME!

Still, I think that if one does undertake the ultimate Alien disc, I can't imagine doing it any differently or there'd be complaints. Hint: it would analogous to combining Rhino's 2001 disc and the Varese Alex North disc into one set.