Tak v knize obsažené v 'modrém box setu' je konečně vysvětleno (i když ne zcela), proč Williams nedělal hudbu k Supermanovi II, viz úryvek:
The version of Superman II released in 1980 (June 1981 in the United States) features a rather awkward music credit: “Music Composed and Conducted by Ken Thorne/From Original Material Composed by John Williams.” By way of translation, Williams’s score to the first film was adapted and rerecorded by British composer Ken Thorne to fit the new picture. The change of directors in 1979 was a traumatic experience that upset many of the cast and crew, and Williams was among the collateral damage, although that was never intended to be the case. “He was coming over to do The Empire Strikes Back in a couple of months, but we had a very rough cut of Superman II and he needed to see it because he was going to be very busy,” Ilya Salkind remembers of Williams. It was October 1979: Williams’s year had included music for Dracula (recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra from April 24 to May 16) and Steven Spielberg’s 1941 in Hollywood, which he had just finished. “He told me he was taking over the Boston Pops but that he’d be able to do Superman II when he came back to play the Royal Albert,” Salkind recalls, referencing Williams’s appearance at the annual Filmharmonic concert, which took place a year later on October 18, 1980. “So we paid for his trip, I picked him up at the airport, and then introduced him to Richard Lester. The two of them went into a room to look at the movie, and after a while John came out and said to me, ‘Ilya, I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can work with him.’ He was very calm and professional, as he always is, but that was the end of it. I don’t know exactly what was said, but I knew from working with Michel Legrand and Lalo Schifrin on the Musketeers pictures that Richard is very opinionated when it comes to music in his films.”
Takže problém nebyl v tom, že by Williams dvojku nechtěl nebo nemohl dělat nebo že by mu snad nechtěli zaplatit co si zasloužil, jak se říkalo (Ilya Salkind o něj evidentně dost stál), ale problém byl v Lesterovi! Hádám, že nejspíš už od začátku chtěl pro film Thorneho, se kterým už dříve dělal a tak Williamse tak dlouho prudil nesmyslnými požadavky, až ho vystrnadil :( Škoda, dvojka byla ještě IMHO docela povedená (na rozdíl od trojky a čtyřky) a Williams mohl napsat 'super' hudbu ;) Strašně by mě zajímalo, co by třeba napsal za motiv pro trio padouchů vyhnaných z Kryptonu. Obzvláště když si uvědomím, co ve stejném roce napsal pro jistého padoucha z jiné slavné filmové série ;) Škoda, převeliká škoda. Ale to je jen co by kdyby. Realita je holt taková, jaká je. |
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