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Three months of recording? What LUXURY! 
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....and remember Kiddies...John Williams still writes a score with a No.2 Pencil and a Piano. 5-7 minutes a day.
... and plays Super Bombad Racing for 23 hours and 53-55 minutes, because sleep is for droids.
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My hopes are high he'd revisit the Luke and Leia theme from ROTJ, one of my favorite themes from the SW saga...
Indeed, but Return of the Jedi wasn't structured to bring out that part of the narrative. One scene with Luke and Leia on an Ewok village catwalk was all we got. After the prequels, that part of the story will be easier to meld into the action.
And, since the Star Wars saga scores are, in their best incarnations, a regime built on Wagnerian leitmotifs, we should expect this to return...if John Williams still really has the chops to pull it off.
His efforts in Jedi and the prequel trilogy really weren't as Wagnerian as Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, but succeed because of sheer compositional dazzle. Maybe JW can pull a last masterwork out of his hat for this trilogy, though it'll never be like the late-'70s/early-'80s ever again. You just can't, it seems, regurgitate that kind of inspired scoring.
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You can never again see a film with the eyes of a ten year old. Nor will film music ever again make as magical an impression as it did back then. We should not burden this film with expecting it to time warp us back in our childhood. If today's children watch the film with wide eyes and open mouth I'll be happy.
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The Star Wars story seems to be in great hands with J.J. Abrams! Like others have stated, it's so amazing to see a composer being held as one of the key creative components to a film. Without John Williams distinct sound, I don't believe Star Wars would have had the same mystical feel.
I am really excited for this.
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The Star Wars story seems to be in great hands with J.J. Abrams!
Don't let anyone on this board hear you say that! You might be cast out as a vapid outsider, daring to dream of whiz-bang sensibility being put back into the premiere whiz-bang franchise! 
Hahaha, well looking at it objectively, he seems to be sticking true to what the original trilogy was. Also, from what I can tell, he's giving John Williams a lot of freedom just to be himself. Abrams is a fan boy like the rest of us. It's usually the directors who have no prior attachments to the originals that end up completely destroying a series.
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Im actually worried about this film suffering from Superman Returns syndrome.
In other words, the director is a massive fan boy and is just making the movie as a rehash/remake/love letter to the original and has no intention of offering anything new.
Nicholas Meyer and JJ Abrams were not Trek fans but their movie entries in that franchise saved it each time.
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That said, while one unoriginal reboot film would be fine, I'm very concerned about potential long-time lack of creativity in this franchise after looking at the extent of the micromanagement and lack of artistic freedom in the Marvel Franchise and can easily see these movies along with the standalone films becoming something along those lines.
Chris.
The problem with the MCU is that different studios own different aspects of Marvel. They're only just recognising how silly this is and how artisitically restrictive it is. The proof? Allowing Spider-Man to be part of the Civil War movie. Hopefully, this understanding will allow the MCU to recognise and begin to use Mutants, and add X-Men to the movies (without diluting the essence of the stories).
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I said this earlier..That Williams Wrote the Music for the Trailers...Many Doubted here...And I wish You Gurls..would relax about the rehash business...IT seems you Gurls are never happy about nothing. Usual Suspects. John Williams is Writing New Themes Also...Wow....
And One More Time....John Williams was never Sick. This all had to do with scheduling. Even on LSO Facebook Page...in March..The LSO was in LA...and John Williams was Conducting the LSO...and even the major players..said on their blog site...It was all about Scheduling...Nothing Else.
“With the film’s premiere still months away, recording sessions for The Force Awakens are just getting started, with the initial sessions slated for the first week of June. Williams tackled earlier recordings for both trailers.
First Class Musicians
A living, breathing score takes talented musicians to bring it to life. After six previous film soundtracks being recorded in the UK with the London Symphony Orchestra, The Force Awakens marks the first Star Wars soundtrack to be recorded on American shores, utilizing musicians from AFM Local 47. “With this new film, the schedule has evolved to the point that I’ll need to be working with the orchestra continuously for several months, and that’s obviously easier for me to do here in Los Angeles, than it would be in London.”
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Im actually worried about this film suffering from Superman Returns syndrome.
In other words, the director is a massive fan boy and is just making the movie as a rehash/remake/love letter to the original and has no intention of offering anything new.
Nicholas Meyer and JJ Abrams were not Trek fans but their movie entries in that franchise saved it each time.
Well considering SUPERMAN RETURNS and STAR TREK were directed by different people, there's no reason to worry.
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