Stargate: 10 Behind The Scenes Secrets You Never Knew About Children Of The Gods
3. No One Liked The Score
The score that was cut and inserted into Children Of The Gods was effectively a straight copy and paste of David Arnold's fabulous score from the movie. There was a slight problem. This was a studio mandate, as they lacked the confidence in composer Joel Goldsmith to carry the pilot. Alex Wilkinson was hired to edit Arnold's score together with Goldsmith's, a feat for which he was nominated for a Golden Reel Award.
Despite Wilkinson's nomination, Goldsmith and Arnold both hated the result. The combined mix was released on CD in 1997, though both composers took their names off it. They both felt that it was a terrible mix of the two.
The music was one of Brad Wright's main reasons for revisiting Children Of The Gods in 2008. He initially sought mainly to fix what he saw as the studio's damage to the musical makeup of the episode. By that time though, Stargate had proven to be so popular that MGM was more than willing to allow, not only this but a complete overhaul of the episode itself.
What began as a crusade to fix the broken score became an almost entirely back-to-basics re-edit of the pilot.