> 1) Hans came up with the film's famed marimba instrumentation almost out
> of spite after Tony Scott came back after shooting and told him he'd have
> a much smaller music budget than originally anticipated. “I remember being
> in music class where we had these xylophones and marimbas, just a horrible
> noise. ‘Okay, you took away all the money, all you’re gonna get is these
> marimbas.’”

> 2) Hans pulled in Mark Mancina because he ended up getting too busy on one
> of his two major rewrites of the music for James L. Brooks' I'll Do
> Anything.

> 3) Mark found working with Tony Scott extremely difficult, in part because
> the director was overly enamored with a temp track dominated by Black
> Rain. “No matter what you wrote it was hard, and even when you got
> something that you think he liked you were never sure. There was a lot of
> reworking cues. I didn’t get into a good rhythm with him.”

> 4) Jan de Bont asked Hans Zimmer to score Speed on the basis of
> some of the music he heard in True Romance, but Hans credited Mark
> for those tracks.

Fascinating stuff, thank you for posting it