One of the comment threads mentioned Lalo Schifrin as one of Brett Ratner's other collaborators...as it happens, Schifrin makes a cameo in Red Dragon as conductor of the Baltimore Philharmonic in the opening of the film! (Personally, my favorite composer cameo is Bernard Herrmann in "The Man Who Knew Too Much")

Given that Lalo Schifrin is a regular Brett Ratner collaborator, and in fact has a cameo appearance in this film, was he originally going to compose an original score for this film? If this is the case, was his score rejected, and if not, was the original plan to allow Schifrin a cameo, and have first-time Ratner collaborator Danny Elfman compose the original score for Red Dragon?

> and if not, was the original plan to allow Schifrin a
> cameo, and have first-time Ratner collaborator Danny Elfman compose the
> original score for Red Dragon?

Red Dragon is not Elfman's first collaboration with this director.
They had already worked together on Family Man in 2000

> One of the comment threads mentioned Lalo Schifrin as one of Brett
> Ratner's other collaborators...as it happens, Schifrin makes a cameo in
> Red Dragon as conductor of the Baltimore Philharmonic in the opening of
> the film! (Personally, my favorite composer cameo is Bernard Herrmann in
> 'The Man Who Knew Too Much')

As he has shown in the Amityville and Abominable movies, Lalo can and does produce very effective horror music, maybe Ratner would have been better served by sticking with him for the score, just a thought.