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The Channel4 News theme was originally used for the music to the trailer of an 80's western movie, "Pale Rider" starring Clint Eastwood.
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blugg (it's all gone horribly wrong), Sun 6 Sep 2026, 17:36,
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Are you sure?
Comments in that video suggest C4 News was using it 2 years before the film was released. American movie trailers have often used random pieces of music (I think Robocop used Terminator music, or vice versa).
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 18:33,
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Was it actually used in the film, or is this one of those cases where they used a different piece of music for the trailer? Like when everyone used the Requiem for a Dream music for a while...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 6 Sep 2026, 23:15,
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The Hunt
from Danny Elfman's soundtrack for Planet Of The Apes (2001)
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David Sylvanian, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 3:35,
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Maybe less surprising for a piece of KPM library music
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 1:29,
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it was library music by Alan Hawkshaw
so 'originally' is a bit wrong
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