Both things happen.
Yup, and sometimes the latter can end up screwing the composer, I.E. Alex North’s discarded score to Kubrick’s 2001. Kubrick was too attached to his temp score and North was never going to match or top that.
I bought that CD score at a Tower Records. A few years later, I was pleasantly flabbergasted to observe North reusing his 2001 end theme for a key moment in GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!
North immediately reused his 2001 score for another MGM movie released in 1968, The Shoes of the Fisherman. It’s a great score, and I quite like the film, too.I bought that CD score at a Tower Records. A few years later, I was pleasantly flabbergasted to observe North reusing his 2001 end theme for a key moment in GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!
Amusingly that was never one of Cameron's complaints. The fights were about Horner not being fast enough and not responding to Cameron's (frequent) edits of the film quickly enough.
Lalo Schifrin's AMITYVILLE HORROR score was literally thrown outside into the trash years before when William Friedkin rejected it for his EXORCIST. Another sidebar: for those who have EXORCIST's original album, very little of it's in the theatrical cuts.
In the end he got an Oscar nomination. Lord knows AVATAR has similar musical strands of Horner's past hits, including TITANIC at times.
The first time I heard Horner's music used in two of the major Marines combat scenes, I thought ''That sounds a bit like a Vietnam film.'' Maybe Cameron suggested that to him originally. Digression endeth.
This won't officially be promoted til Tuesday the 21st, but I like to give y'all a first look at new articles.
The first attempts to bring Star Trek back after the original series resulted in unproduced projects that became legendary … even though some of their most familiar names were never their actual titles.
You’ve likely heard of The God Thing, Planet of the Titans, and Star Trek—Phase II. But where did those names come from, and why have they endured for decades in fandom, publications, and even historical accounts?
This is the story of how Star Trek history got a little loose with its names.
The first attempts to bring Star Trek back after the original series resulted in unproduced projects that became legendary … even though some of their most familiar names were never their actual titles.
You’ve likely heard of The God Thing, Planet of the Titans, and Star Trek—Phase II. But where did those names come from, and why have they endured for decades in fandom, publications, and even historical accounts?
This is the story of how Star Trek history got a little loose with its names.
1977 painting of stranded Enterprise crew members amidst shipwrecks on the “planet of the Titans” by visual effects legend Derek Meddings
As a bonus, we summarize the plots of Roddenberry's 1975 script about a god-thing and the first draft story for the Enterprise's trip to the legendary planet of the Titans.
Frames of ident hastily created for the nascent network by Sullivan & Marks, from their 1978 reel.
Intriguing article. I knew Phase II was not the official title, but I didn't realize about the others.
Regarding the prefatory comments in the article, I'm pretty sure the title Star Trek: The Animated Series wasn't officially adopted until the DVD season set came out in 2006, so it's comparatively recent. The earlier home video releases just put a "The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's" supertitle above the Star Trek logo. I grew up thinking of it mainly as just "the animated Star Trek." The original Concordance just lists TAS episodes under "Animateds," and the revised Concordance and Compendium don't use any specific title for it, just referring to "animated episodes," "animated Star Trek," or "the animated series" without caps or italics.
Regarding the prefatory comments in the article, I'm pretty sure the title Star Trek: The Animated Series wasn't officially adopted until the DVD season set came out in 2006, so it's comparatively recent. The earlier home video releases just put a "The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's" supertitle above the Star Trek logo. I grew up thinking of it mainly as just "the animated Star Trek." The original Concordance just lists TAS episodes under "Animateds," and the revised Concordance and Compendium don't use any specific title for it, just referring to "animated episodes," "animated Star Trek," or "the animated series" without caps or italics.
@Maurice. re: Sackett's quote, which you have as:
You say, "Read that quickly, and you might think the movie script bore that title".
In fact, the quoted text suffers from a common grammatical error, the misplaced modifier. It is that grammatical error that supports coming to the wrong conclusion.
And, as if all these projects weren’t enough, Gene is now completing his novelization of the original Star Trek movie script (the one Paramount rejected) tentatively titled ‘‘The God Thing.’’ It’s due to be published by Bantam Books late this year.［8］
You say, "Read that quickly, and you might think the movie script bore that title".
In fact, the quoted text suffers from a common grammatical error, the misplaced modifier. It is that grammatical error that supports coming to the wrong conclusion.
Right. It's a retronym, much like "Old Testament" or "World War One."
I tend to think that TAS was just called Star Trek because its creators' goal was to approach it as a direct continuation of TOS rather than a separate thing. Filmation's other 1970s-80s adaptations of live-action series had their own distinct titles -- Lassie's Rescue Rangers, My Favorite Martians, The New Adventures of Gilligan, The Brady Kids, The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger, etc. (although their 1960s series based on the films Journey to the Center of the Earth and Fantastic Voyage used the same titles). Star Trek was the exception.