Would love a link to the rescores as well please.

If anyone can send me a link for this I'd appreciate it.

One of my favorite Sword and Sandals movies and the DC was *ruined* by the music change. I'd love to see this

@NL197 - Hello! Another person eagerly seeking a link to this re-score.

I was hoping someone would do this and now the 4k director's cut version is out I would love to see it with this score.

Your heroic work will be much appreciated! Thanks in advance to you or anyone that can send me a link.

@NL197 hello, im quite eager to see this version too. May i please have the link as well? Thank you

(2026-04-12, 08:38 PM)Yoserian33 Wrote: I decided to stop waiting and went ahead and made an edit myself.

This is the very first time I have ever attempted anything like this and was well outside my wheelhouse. But youtube and AI (perplexity by Comet) assisted in instructing me so I gave it a go.
This was very fun to try to do.

Although I generally disagreed with the rejection of Gabriel Yared's score, they did have a point. There were times where the score overwhelmed the scene and needed either a dramatic reduction in volume (which sometimes ruined the scene too) or needed to simply left with Horton.

I started with the 1080p MKV of Troy Director's Cut, first pre‑trimming the movie’s audio with ffmpeg and then running that split audio through a stem‑separation tool to isolate elements for mixing. I brought these stems into Reaper and built a 5.1 project around the film, preserving the original dialogue and effects while selectively replacing and augmenting James Horner’s score with Gabriel Yared’s rejected music. I left Horner’s score intact for a large portion of the non‑action and non‑sex scenes so the film still retains much of its familiar musical identity.

For the intimate sequences, I used “Achilles and Briseis” for their sex scene and “Helen and Paris” for theirs, allowing Yared’s romantic writing to carry those moments. In the Sparta feast, I laid in Yared’s “Sparta” cue for a substantial part of the scene—but not all of it—blending it with Horner to keep the pacing and tone consistent. In the major set‑pieces where Horner felt underpowered, I stitched in Yared’s larger, more dramatic cues: “1000 Ships” for the armada, “D‑Day Battle” for the beach landing, “Battle of the Arrows” for the large‑scale assault, “Hector, Hector!” and “Achilles and Hector Fight” for Hector’s key battle and duel, and “The Sacking of Troy” from roughly the early middle through most of the sack, intercut and blended with Horner’s material where needed.

I also replaced Horner’s music for Hector’s funeral and the Greek funeral pyre with Yared’s corresponding cues. In the opening, the first ten or so seconds remain Horner before the score transitions into Yared and continues until the two kings meet, with Yared’s cue landing perfectly just before Agamemnon speaks. Achilles’ fight with Boagrius is handled as a stitched compilation of both Horner and Yared, favoring Yared for the actual combat and Horner for the build‑up and aftermath. The result is a hybrid Troy cut in which Horner remains the musical backbone for quieter stretches, while Yared’s score takes over the emotional and action high points in a way that feels cohesive rather than jarring.

I am working on making a copy available for those that want it. Pm me if you are interested.

Intriguing. Could I have a link? Thanks

(2025-05-08, 11:06 PM)NL197 Wrote: Obviously the directors cut cannot fit the score as written, therefore I did have to do a LOT of editorial changes to make the music work (looping certain areas, overlapping others) and the end result is that it’s still heavily edited, but the music is back where it was generally meant to be originally.

There are moments where the audio is very quiet, but the director's cut was like that in places compared to the theatrical.

The list of cues I put back are the following:

(Intrada 2-disc album cue titles)

Call for Achilles (theatrical had more presence than director's, but I also left the film's opening alone because I find it worked better than the wailing vocals that open the theatrical cut)

Never Hesitate (replaced the 'Count of Monte Cristo' music. Had to loop this in places to make it work, and added some 'Call for Achilles' as an open)

A Dark Past, A Glorious Future (weaved some of this in and out of the intended scene, where Achilles and his mother speak of his destiny)

The Myrmidons, part 1 (just the opening horn call)

The Myrmidons, part 2 (restored as much of this cue to the scene as possible, because most of it was replaced in the director's cut with 'A Trojan Victory, part 2')

Additional detail:
The moment where Achilles races up the temple steps slaughtering Trojans was my favorite moment of the entire score, and that was completely replaced in the director's cut so I had to put it back in.

The Temple Fight (replaced tracked music from 'The Myrmidons, part 2')

Briseis Taken (restored this to the scene, replacing what was tracked in from The Temple Fight)

Achilles Saves Briseis (restored the first half of this cue, but could not restore the big climax because this sex scene went on longer than in the theatrical cut, so it would not work. The consequence of this is the music is repeated, but not really a problem.)

Mistaken Identity (much of this was chopped up and also replaced in the director's cut, so I put as much of it back as I could)

Hector's Farewells (replaced the tracked in piece from 'A Dark Past, A Glorious Future)

Single Combat (replaced the Planet of the Apes music for the duel, and the Starship Troopers music for when Achilles ties Hector’s legs to his chariot to drag him away)

Priam Takes Briseis (replaced the oft-used 'Achilles Saves Briseis' which was used repeatedly in the director's cut)

The Wooden Horse / The Sacking of Troy (much of this was replaced with tracked material from 'A Dark Past, A Glorious Future', 'A Trojan Victory parts 1 and 2', 'The Myrmidons' part 2' and others so I put as much of the theatrical music back in where I could to those corresponding scenes in the director's cut.)

The ending of the film did not fit the music as I needed it to, so I had to do a major cut to bring out the end of Achilles and the surviving Trojans moving on from their burning city (replacing 'Achilles Saves Briseis' tracked into this scene).

I'm not completely satisfied with it but I did do what I could to make the credits synchronize with the score.

The song "Remember Me" wasn't going to be in there but I decided do use my remix of it, and the remaining material was added to fill the gap of time in the credits with something similar and appropriate musically.

All of that replaced the use of 'A Dark Past, A Glorious Future' for the credits themselves along with an edited piece of 'The Sacking of Troy'.

The title 'A Dark Past, A Glorious Future' is not one found on the 2017 Intrada 2-disc album, because it was one of two cues (the other is titled 'Stealing Helen') that were left off that release due to copyright issues.

Both of those cues were cut together and edited down considerably for the OST, and simply titled 'Troy' on that album, and the full cue is heard over the end credits of the director's cut on disc.

Wonderful! Could I get a link? Thanks

@NL197 @Yoserian33 Great work, would love to check out both versions you two have created, please send me a link

With the 4K Arrow release, I decided to completely rework my score restoration and made some significant changes. 

It's finally as ready as I can make it, finishing it just days ago (August 10th)


TROY (Director’s Cut) Score Restoration
DTS-HD 5.1 audio details (Spoiler-tagged due to length)


So have a read, and if it's something you would like to put into your copy of the film (obviously it would have to be a digital version) then I can FINALLY oblige.

At the moment I can't upload it to the Internet Archive, because the Archive isn't working. When it does, I'll do that so it can be easily accessed without any issues / DMs.

IF you want to keep these details I've saved them as a PDF document in my signature.

I just downloaded a whole bunch of Troy stuff last night lmao, this is perfect timing! Cannot wait to see this

Just make sure to keep the document included in my signature.