Intrada Soundtrack Forum

5/4/2022

It’s really satisfying to have so many orders come in for Jumanji, immediately upon our release of the soundtrack yesterday. We’ve expanded it from the original 1995 album to include previously unreleased music and included on a second CD the original album for anyone interested in retaining the slightly altered and edited selections chosen by composer James Horner. It was a fantastic album I played a lot when it was first released by Epic and I’m admittedly thrilled to see it now attached to an Intrada release. I’m thankful to Sony Entertainment for that honor. It’s cool to get the opportunity to expand a classic soundtrack and also present the original alongside it for new listeners discovering the excitement of Horner’s music. Given the success of the Jumanji franchise, there are likely quite a few fans now making that discovery!

Our next new release, on deck in just two weeks, is pretty exciting too. Composed in the previous decade, I anticipate it’ll get plenty of playtime too!

Speaking of playtime, I took a break from work (or sleep) and watched two totally random movies from the Warner Archive Collection on Blu-ray this morning, back-to-back. They were both short and sweet and actually, albeit random in choice, certainly happen to share a lot in common… namely low budget “B” science fiction movie creds. Even some of the same props, sets, plot ideas, script lines, what have you. I watched Queen Of Outer Space (1958) and then World Without End (1956) and it was kind of like seeing the same movie twice. Well, sort of. Anyway, Marlin Skiles writes the score for the former, Leith Stevens does the latter. I used to see Skiles name on lots of credits to low budget movies I would watch on tv when I was in my youth, albeit a couple of them like Quantrill’s Raiders and The Young Guns from 1956 which featured a really young Russ Tamblyn always grabbed my attention. Ok, funny tidbit. World Without End featured a really young Rod Taylor doing a time travel tale… before he became a star doing another more famous time travel movie some four years later. Russ Tamblyn kind of did the same forward-projecting thing in his future West Side Story success since his young guns tale featured juvenile delinquents, albeit sporting six-guns instead of switchblades. Ahhh… the simple joys of watching “B” movies. Now, I’ll get back to work.