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Meyer's original plan for the score was to adapt Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets.

The plan proved unfeasibly expensive, so Meyer began listening to demo tapes submitted by composers.

Meyer described most of the demos as generic " movie music ", but was intrigued by one tape by a young composer named Cliff Eidelman.

Eidelman, then 26, had made a career in composing for ballets, television, and film, but despite work on fourteen features, no film had been the hit needed to propel Eidelman to greater fame.