I was wondering why film makers do this?

That's it.

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Originally posted by Hector J. Guzman:
I've read about this kind of thing being done other times before, including a Jerry Goldsmith movie.

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That one was LEGEND. It was changed because Universal executive Sid Scheinberg thought Ridley Scott's film wasn't commercial enough, and in addition to a complete recut of the movie itself he replaced Goldsmith's score with something he thought "the kids" would relate to more. This was a new score by Tangerine Dream, along with a couple of really bad songs.

That Sid Scheinberg was quite a character. He tried to do the same thing with Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL (including the replacement of Michael Kamen's score) but unlike Ridley Scott, Gilliam fought for his original vision and ultimately won. (There's a great book about this incident called The Battle of Brazil.)

Bob Gale also said in a recent interview that Sid Scheinberg thought BACK TO THE FUTURE was a terrible title, and he tried to get it changed to SPACE MAN FROM PLUTO.

So that's one reason scores get changed: studio executives who don't have a clue.

Kirk

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Originally posted by Hector J. Guzman:
Reading something by Cliff Eidelman I found out one of his scores was done for a fil that already had a score, and which was released in international theaters with that other scores.

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