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Well, if the maestro is called upon to be the film's official composer I still think Giacchino will have familiarised himself with every energetic cue from the best musically diverse sequences from the originals. In other words, any itch Mr Williams feels could theoretically be scratched by Mr Giacchino - a probable case of a stout heart and young mind - in both cases the opportunity of a lifetime.
Um... huh? Are you saying that John Williams should hire extra personal security or something?
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Somehow I think that if someone said that about Goldsmith in regards to the TNG films, you wouldn't necessarily agree with them?
I for one am very excited to hear what Williams comes up with. I thought his TinTin score showed that old 70s/80s adventure spark and with a sufficiently inspiring film (gotta be better than the prequels!) I feel pretty sure he can do a great job.
Yavar
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More than anything else I'm looking forward to Williams getting a chance to spot a STAR WARS film without Lucas calling the shots. The prequels were ridiculously oversaturated with music (I won't say overscored because a lot of the end result was due to the music editing) - it seemed like every single walk-and-talk was accompanied by some generic, unnecessary flourish of score. So I'm very curious to see how Abrams and Williams approach the project from that standpoint.
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That wasn't 2011 - Disney hadn't even bought LucasFilm yet back then!
It was last June that was said: http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22882&p=909330
I'm talking about a concert of his I went to in 2011. News about a new Star Wars had just broken out and Williams was giving a maybe/maybe not as to his involvement
I'm sorry connorb93 , but you're just empirically wrong. Disney bought Lucasfilm and announced Star Wars 7 in October of 2012, and it was the June 2013 concerts at Symphony Hall in Boston that Williams made the Wheaties joke. I'm sure it feels like longer ago, but it wasn't!
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Oct 7, 2014 - 10:03 AM
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John Mullin
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You said it, CitizenJoe!
Every time 'Star Wars' is mentioned, it seems that several people come out with bizarre, unfounded fantasies about how John Williams will be somehow incapacitated or dead and that someone else (nearly always Michael Giacchino) will need to come in to take the movie over.
The other comment you often see is similar to the one above: That since Williams is, by his own admission, no longer 35, he needs to be put out on an ice floe and released into Los Angeles harbor, having proved, in accordance with Eskimo tradition, that he is no longer a useful member of society.
What the hell is this about? I think we just need to assume that Williams is in good health - with all his limbs attached, and completely free of all debilitating illness, terminal or otherwise - until he holds some kind of press conference and tells us otherwise.
The man's a living legend and Star Wars is his baby... If the producers want him and he wants to do it, what's wrong with him continuing to revisit his signature work?
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Oct 7, 2014 - 10:27 AM
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Mike Esssss
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You said it, CitizenJoe!
Every time 'Star Wars' is mentioned, it seems that several people come out with bizarre, unfounded fantasies about how John Williams will be somehow incapacitated or dead and that someone else (nearly always Michael Giacchino) will need to come in to take the movie over.
The other comment you often see is similar to the one above: That since Williams is, by his own admission, no longer 35, he needs to be put out on an ice floe and released into Los Angeles harbor, having proved, in accordance with Eskimo tradition, that he is no longer a useful member of society.
What the hell is this about? I think we just need to assume that Williams is in good health - with all his limbs attached, and completely free of all debilitating illness, terminal or otherwise - until he holds some kind of press conference and tells us otherwise.
The man's a living legend and Star Wars is his baby... If the producers want him and he wants to do it, what's wrong with him continuing to revisit his signature work?
Absolutely. Further to that, while I guess any number of things could keep him from the physical rigors of conducting, there's no reason he can't keep writing scores until his dying day. If anything, the mental and physical work of composing and conducting is probably one reason he's in such great health at 82. Hell, Clint Eastwood is 84 and still making big movies. We should be so lucky to find careers that compel us into keeping active well beyond what anyone else would say is viable.
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Excellent news & expected! John Williams IS the composer for the job & I
wouldn't want anyone else doing it! Hopefully he'll introduce new themes into the mix!
June 2013 was when the wheaties joke was mentioned - I know, I was there!
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