Gonna toot my own horn here for a moment:
Young Guns II was in the middle of principle photography when I began working at Morgan Creek. Everyone there knew I was a huge soundtrack fan and collector at that time, except for the film's producers, who had been on set with the cast and crew filming. When Paul Schiff returned, I heard him talking about who they might want as a composer for the film. At that time, he was debating between Alan Silvestri and Basil Poledouris. I immediately supplied him with every score I had from both composers (I remember specifically Paul asking for Red October and Abyss, while for Silvestri, I provided Fandango to go along with Predator and Clan of the Cave Bear).
A couple days later, Paul returned my CDs to me and said they were going to go with Alan Silvestri. I was JAZZED!!! Later, during the scoring process, I had the opportuntiy to go to the 20th Centruy Fox lot, where Maestro Silvestri was recording his score...I was running some sort of errand on another Morgan Creek project and ran into Excutive Producer David Nicksay, Paul Schiff, director Geoff Murphy and Mr. Silvestri. They were heading to lunch and they invited me to go with them.
Due to the other errand, I had to say no, but that would have been just the BEST LUNCH EVER!
Anyway, due to the success of Young Guns II, Morgan Creek hired Geoff Murphy to direct Freejack and Emilio was already signed on to star in that film. Sadly, Freejack wasn't the hit they hoped it would be (although signing Mick Jagger was kinda wild!).
Anyway, that's my story. It's the only time that I actually had input into which composer might work on a film I was involved in at that point in my Hollywood career. Later, Mr. Schiff provided me with a DAT recording of THE VANISHING by my hero, (you know who!!) before a soundtrack was ever even considered (that wouldn't be for another ten years of so!!).
I was (and still am) so very grateful to Mr. Schiff and Morgan Creek for the opportunities they provided, even though I decided to go in a different direction career-wise after that.
Oh yeah, and by the way, Intrada just got my order for this score. Thanks, guys, for bringing such a fun piece of music to the fans. And, needless to say, but I will say it anyway, Alan Silvestri is one of the nicest guys in the industry. It's great to see his unreleased music get the recognition it deserves!!
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