History Main / RecycledTrailerMusic

*** Which oddly brought the song full-circle, as "Aquarela do Brazil"(Portuguese for "Watercolor of Brazil") debuted in an early Disney feature, "Saludos Amigos", where DonaldDuck meets Brazilian parrot Jose Carioca.
*** The reason for its use in the WALL-E teaser trailer: Michael Kamen, who did the music for Gilliam's "Brazil," was originally going to score WALL-E. But then he died. And people were sad. And then Michael Giacchino came to the rescue. And everyone was happy again. The end.

-->--'''Danny Elfman''', former TropeNamer, on an [[AvertedTrope original piece and aversion of the trope]] written for the trailer of ''MarsAttacks''

** It's a big ad!
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGJiTpBBD18 It's just so freak...ing]] [[BiggerIsBetter HUGE!]]

* The teaser to ''BedtimeStories'' had music playing from ''[[OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 102 Dalmatians]]''.

* The trailer for ''{{Doug}}'s 1st Movie'' had background music from the live action ''[[OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians]]''. Most notably is when Skeeter says, "There's something bad behind me, isn't there?", an instrumental "Cruella [=DeVil=] is heard, and then later was the music used during Pongo and Perdita's departure to find the puppies. The VHS commercial for ''SleepingBeauty'' had the same.

The first film of a franchise is most likely use this trope, whereas trailers for future films tend to reuse music from the previous ones. For example, most ''StarWars'' trailers after ''ANewHope'' used portions of JohnWilliams' score for that film, whereas the original trailer for ''A New Hope'' used stock music! Once the score is completed, the studio might release a new batch of trailers using the film's own music.

* The trailer for ''[[Film/{{Australia}} Australia]]'' uses "The Ecstasy of Gold" from ''[[TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]'' and the heroic leitmotif from ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}''. It also used the music that plays during the St. Crispian's speech in KennethBranagh's ''{{Henry V}}''.

* The trailer for ''{{Australia}}'' [[hottip:*:What, all of it?]] uses "The Ecstasy of Gold" from ''[[TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]'' and the heroic leitmotif from ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}''. It also used the music that plays during the St. Crispian's speech in KennethBranagh's ''{{Henry V}}''.

* If the music from the recent [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRQQCKS7go trailer]] for Super8 sounds familiar, that's because it was from the movie ''{{Cocoon}}''. It can be heard in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEzTeHJUk3k this trailer]] for ''Cocoon: The Return''.

* The music from the climax of ''DarkCity'' was used for one of the ''X-Men'' sequels. Nearly all of the melodic motives in the ''Dark City'' score were lifted out of Igor Stravkinsky's Rite of Spring.

* The trailer for ''TheMightyDucks 2'' used the iconic JohnWilliams theme from ''BackToTheFuture'', causing a certain amount of consternation among [=BTTF=] fans.

* A [=DirecTV=] commercial used "Il sogno di volare" from CirqueDuSoleil's ''{{Saltimbanco}}'', I think.

* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXVzg2PiZw The main theme]]" from ''{{Sunshine}}'' is getting really popular, most recently in the trailer for ''The Adjustment Bureau''. It's especially worth noting that the version linked to is the official soundtrack version: "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)". However, in the film itself the piece is in a different key, [[hottip:*: specifically, a higher key, and since even the clip of Cassie's voice on the official version is a lower pitch than it is in the movie, one wonders if they didn't just take the track and digitally pitch it all down... for some reason...]] and that version seems to get used as often as the official one.

* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXVzg2PiZw The main theme]]" from {{Sunshine}} is getting really popular, most recently in the trailer for ''The Adjustment Bureau''. It's especially worth noting that the version linked to is the official soundtrack version: "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)". However, in the film itself the piece is in a different key, [[hottip: specifically, a higher key, and since even the clip of Cassie's voice on the official version is a lower pitch than it is in the movie, one wonders if they didn't just take the track and digitally pitch it all down... for some reason...]] and that version seems to get used as often as the official one.

* No one's going to mention "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXVzg2PiZw Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)]]" from ''{{Sunshine}}''? Used in ''KickAss'' (not surprising, as it's the same composer), ''The Adjustment Bureau'', "TheWalkingDead" and "[[{{V-2009}} V]]," among other things. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome It's awesome.]]

** You '''HAVE''' heard this song. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E when you listen to it]] you '''will''' say "oh, the movie trailer song" at 1:38.

* Johann Johannson's single "The Sun's Gone Dim And The Sky's Turned Black" is on its way there, creeping people out with the electronic voice overlayed with the ShakyCam footage of a global alien invasion in the trailer for ''{{Battle: Los Angeles}}''

* An overused score is the main theme from ''RequiemForADream'', "Lux Aeterna" which is used for "serious" movies... and certain NASCAR commercials. Most ads don't use the original recording; instead they tend to use the big orchestral arrangement which was recorded for the trailer of ''The Two Towers''.

* E.S. Posthumus' album ''Unearthed'' has been regularly plundered for trailer music. Interestingly, ''ColdCase'' also [[RealSongThemeTune uses music from this album as the title theme]]. Unsurprisingly, the duo wound up producing the theme for the SuperBowl one year.

Slap in some music from another film that evokes the general mood they're going for, that's what.

Slap in some music from another film that evokes the general mood they're going for, that's what.

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