[Thor Joachim Haga]

I don’t really understand the question. Isn’t it perfectly normal that if one hears a piece of music one likes in a trailer, one may wonder what that is and where it originally came from?

I suppose.

But you have to remember the timeframe here. 2001 was the year. The board was flooded with requests for who did what trailer music. It became rather overwhelming for someone who didn’t have that interest. It’s relatively rare that you see threads like that now, because the music is usually made by companies specialized in trailer music (which have their own dedicated fanbases), or the information is easy to find online if they – on a rare occasion – use existing film music. Back then, it was only John Beal, and maybe a few others, who did that.

So it’s taken a different form today, still as strong (and with an avid fan base), but not as present on film music messageboards. I’m still kinda baffled by the interest in trailer music in general, but there it is. Plenty of things out there that I’m not interested in, but that many people are.