[Thor Joachim Haga]

I did a podcast episode on rejected scores in 2016, and I see from the selections there that all of them have been released — both the eventual ones and the rejected ones.

Except for ONE — Ennio Morricone’s WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. Yes, there’s a decent-sounding bootleg, but it’s never been commercially released. Which is a scandal, because it’s one of the finest things Morricone ever wrote, easily in my top 5 (and no offense to Kamen’s score, which was okay).

Another contender is David Arnold’s THE PATRIOT. I dig the John Williams score (despite its autopilot feel and cribbing of his own AMISTAD), but judging from the 5 minutes of Arnold’s rejected score that HAS been released, that sounds very good too. I think he recorded the whole thing(?), so a release of that would be great.

Several more that I’ll think of later.