… Gabriel didn’t have the experience to score big action movies …
.. Gabriel was not familiar with this big action movie thing Wolfgang wanted …
before they put the chorus on, they brought it to California to preview, the studio insisted on a preview …
… they played it for an audience in Sacramento, and the usual focus group …”
... the music is the worst they (test audience) had ever heard…
… they all said it’s horrible music, who did this music …
… I looked at the film and it was, I don’t even know how to describe it, how atrocious the music was. It was like a 1950’s Hercules movie.
… it was not because Gabriel isn’t a gifted writer, it’s because he doesn’t have any knowledge of writing film scores, real film scores like that, and it was like, it was so corny, it was unbelievable, it it and apparently made the audience laugh in places during serious scenes …”
… they both (W.Petersen and G. Yared) came up with a score that was absolutely dreadful, absolutely dreadful …
... (Gabriel Yared) going on his website saying he was cheated and short changed and they put his music in the film without the chorus and the chorus made the difference, and you know you say to yourself this guy just doesn’t get it. The chorus would have made it worse …