Trivia / Mark Isham

• What Could Have Been:
  • Isham was originally hired to score Waterworld, but his soundtrack was seen as too bleak and "ethnic" and thus thrown out and replaced with a more adventurous and upbeat score by James Newton Howard.
  • James Horner was originally brought on board to score The Black Dahlia but in February 2006, it was reported that had backed out and that Isham had replaced him.
  • Elmer Bernstein originally wrote the score for A River Runs Through It. However, it was rejected by director Robert Redford, so Isham composed a new one (for which he received an Oscar nomination). In the original theatrical version of the film, Isham was credited as the composer during the opening credits. But for some reason, in some video and DVD versions of the film, Bernstein is credited as the composer.

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