> I'd say The Boss Baby, which you discussed earlier, also falls under this. Hmmm, that is a rare case!

Eh, probably not. Boss Baby was a case of Zimmer outsourcing that track to someone who was better equipped to write in the style he wanted. It's still based on his thematic material.

> I'm not at all familiar with Ace Eli (its situation or the music by Goldsmith), and I'm assuming Darkman was Walker doing heavy lifting under the orchestrator label?

Ace Eli was re-edited before release to be more optimistic (didn't work). Alexander Courage wrote new material partially replacing Goldsmith's original recording, but Courage was a regular collaborator of Jerry's at that time.

Darkman was a case where Elfman was running out of time and delegated the helicopter sequence to Jonathan Sheffer, who's probably better known now (if he's even known at all) for being a conductor on a number of Elliot Goldenthal's scores. As Sheffer put it in a 1992 FSM article, 'Danny knows he can do two minutes of orchestrated music a day. Danny knew four months ahead of his next job that he'd be two weeks shy on Darkman, and that's how long it took me to finish my scenes. He told me start here in reel 8 and finish in reel 9. Steve Bartek sent me some orchestrated stuff. Danny sent some sketches. The scores to Batman were sent to me - 70 pounds by UPS!' Elfman didn't even know what it was going to sound like until Shirley Walker conducted it at the recording sessions, and after it was played through he walked out and congratulated Sheffer in front of the musicians.