Thirteen years after the film's release, a limited edition 2-CD set of Horner’s epic score for Troy is now available from Intrada.
In 2004, when Horner was announced as the composer of Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy, another composer was working for more than a year on its music. But once two test-screening audiences found Gabriel Yared’s score too ‘old-fashioned’, producers turned to James Horner, who previously scored Petersen’s The Perfect Storm (2000), to write a replacement score for the picture.
The challenge was daunting, as Horner only had ten days to write and record the music for the film. With more than two
