ROGUE ONE was such a frustrating experience for me. I loved the film, but a lot of the experience was ruined by Giacchino’s godawful music. I’m not sure how Desplat would have been instead, as I dislike most of his output too, but slightly – just slightly – better than Giacchino, I would suspect. Typical that of all the thousands of composers out there, two of the ones I liked the least were involved with this film.
I’m kinda curious what Paul Haslinger did for THE WOLFMAN, before being replaced by Elfman. If memory serves, it was Elfman, then Haslinger, then Elfman again. Similarly, I would have loved to hear more of Danna’s THE HULK, even though some of it ended up in Elfman’s score.
And did Mark Isham ever write anything substantial on WATERWORLD before being replaced by James Newton Howard? JNH’s score is one of my 10 favourite scores of all time, but I’m still curious to know what Isham did beforehand.