That's right but more important for me is the musical potential of the project and with TNMT the score might have been really great especially when he got involved through his Hellboy score and the director wanted something similarly thematically based...
Also when the score is finished and just needed to be recorded and it hardly ever will is quite sad
When you pick Beltrami's latest high profile projects there is not so many good films but imho quite a few really great scores:
The Omen - horrible film, amazing score
Underworld 2 - imho highly underrated score, the film barely average
Flight of the Phoenix - one of his most experimental scores in years for such a boring film
xXx: State of the Union - entertaining score, one of the most stupid films of 2005
Cursed - I might be the only one who really like this score and the film is rather weak.
Considering his upcoming projects Die Hard IV - I don't think this will be a good film considering previous Wiseman projects and have no idea of direction the score might go in... The Invisible should be very interesting score based on pianos, strings and electric guitar but the name David S. Goyer really freaks me out...
TNMT was the only project looking promising and good for Beltrami's skills and sound and could provide him the opportunity to write fantastic thematic score that none of his projects within 2 years did
