The Energon Pub

Hi Chris
Nice to hear from you. As you probably know the score is now up on iTunes. The physical CD situation has been more complicated. I finished the album weeks ago, but we didn't actually finalize it until a few days ago. Michael Bay is really happy with the score and he wanted to check out the album before it went out. As you might imagine, he's a busy dude. He's been flying all over the world promoting TF3, making it difficult to get approval. But I was happy that he wanted to be a part of the soundtrack and I did not want to release anything before he had his say. The record company tells me they need 4-6 weeks to get the album produced and into stores, which would put us into August at this point. A lot of discussion went into this, but the decision was made to wait on the physical CD, and release some kind of special edition alongside the blu-ray release (maybe autographed copies or other goodies, we don't know yet).

I know people are probably disappointed. Believe me I wish I could get physical CD's out there tomorrow. But it's just the way things went this time around. I can see why Paramount would rather not release a score CD almost 2 months after the movie release. To them it makes more sense to do something special around the blu-ray/DVD. I understand that.

So anyone interested in a CD should rest assured that it WILL happen. It just won't happen until later in the year unfortunately.

These big movies are so complex sometimes!! I hope you've been well!

Steve

KnightStrike wrote:Great. I am beginning to think there is a curse upon all pre-orders. It sucks that its going to be the end of the year before this is available, provided they don't decide to scrap a physical release completely. However, why release it on iTunes and not CD if it wasn't Bay approved? Why would Bay have to approve the CD separately from the digital release? Packaging? And I hate seeing the phrase "Special Edition" anymore. Its usually just an excuse for inflating the price. The same CD I had pre-ordered for $13 is now going to probably be $20 or require you to buy a limited $50 BD/CD package to get it.

Kingpun wrote:

KnightStrike wrote:Great. I am beginning to think there is a curse upon all pre-orders. It sucks that its going to be the end of the year before this is available, provided they don't decide to scrap a physical release completely. However, why release it on iTunes and not CD if it wasn't Bay approved? Why would Bay have to approve the CD separately from the digital release? Packaging? And I hate seeing the phrase "Special Edition" anymore. Its usually just an excuse for inflating the price. The same CD I had pre-ordered for $13 is now going to probably be $20 or require you to buy a limited $50 BD/CD package to get it.

It's because they don't have to produce physical copies. Putting the thing on itunes is just a couple of minutes of keystrokes. For all we know Bay could have approved it yesterday morning. If he didn't like the album assembly or thought something important was missing from it and they had already produced the discs, they just wasted thousands of dollars.

I'm hoping whatever special edition we end up getting is more than just a delayed release. There's a few little moments I feel are missing from the itunes version. Maybe we'll get an expanded version.

KnightStrike wrote:The expanded version is a great idea and one I'd be willing to pay more for. I'm kind of hoping that at some point they release expanded versions of the first two scores as well. Something like the double disk sets of the Star Wars original trilogy sets would be great, including all the material from the film and maybe anything cool that was cut. I would gladly shell out the cash for those if they were ever to come to light.