THE ADVENTURES OF HAN - 2018 John Williams theme for Solo: A Star Wars Story

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

On 1/14/2018 at 12:56 PM, TheForkAwakens said:

 

There is nothing in the movies to suggest Han is a womaniser. 

 

There's only one woman Han encounters in the OT.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

[Balahkay 627]

23 minutes ago, mstrox said:

The interview may have been conducted before that was officially announced.

 

I thought the same thing but I got the impression from the interview that he was already working on it.

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I'm starting to really like this Powell fellow! No filter!

 

And in likelihood he wasn't allowed to reveal the Williams theme at the time of the interview.

[Balahkay 627]

6 minutes ago, crumbs said:

I'm starting to really like this Powell fellow! No filter!

 

 

Agreed.  If only Williams would ditch his filter.  

[bollemanneke 3,338]

'Cue titles have to be carefuly organised...?' Jesus, these guys think they're really important, don't they?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

What are those?

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

Because of the secrecy surrounding the movie the title of each cue they're recording can't reveal anything of the story.

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2 hours ago, Philippe Roaché said:

What are those?

 

It's the name they assign to each song.

[p0llux 392]

John Powell likes EDM? Me too.

[artguy360 1,843]

I really wish Powell good luck with this score. I want to hear a good Star Wars score not from JW that sounds effortlessly Star Wars-like. Hopefully JW's theme will help. Gia did a decent job but throughout that score I could hear him trying to imitate classic Star Wars sounds to the point of pastiche. 

[Luka 242]

3 hours ago, p0llux said:

John Powell likes EDM? Me too.

 

Can I just say that I love your avatar x) And what you said there works great with it too! loll

[p0llux 392]

THANKS, but I'm changing it to something else now.

[Bayesian 1,359]

On 1/22/2018 at 5:32 AM, idril said:

he can put more energy in a piece of music than a roomful of EDM fuckers

 

Golden quote!!

 

Any thoughts as to who this swipe was aimed at?? My vote is HZ and co. 

[Lord Zimmer 211]

On 11/01/2018 at 11:27 PM, crumbs said:

People are just butthurt TLJ wasn't the film they wanted it to be. Rian did something different so automatically it's "wrong." The hyperbole across the internet is predictable and cringeworthy. Mind you, this is after two years of people bitching that TFA was just a rehash!

 

Just reading through Rian's Twitter comments made me embarrassed; what a horrible reflection on the Star Wars community that people are basically threatening him over it.

 

It's just a movie folks! Go vent your anger and frustration at something important like poverty or world hunger.

 

Getting BvS flashbacks here. Funny how that works when it's a movie you like. 

[Dixon Hill 4,233]

46 minutes ago, Scintillating_CA said:

 

Any thoughts as to who this swipe was aimed at?? My vote is HZ and co. 

 

My guess is EDM fuckers.

[TheForkAwakens 1]

On 22/1/2018 at 7:45 PM, Philippe Roaché said:

 

There's only one woman Han encounters in the OT.

 

Regardless there is no evidence to support the notion of "womanising". Even counting deleted scenes that include Han with a woman in the cantina, this is not womanising.

 

 

[Chen G. 3,944]

But its certainly in line with his character.

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

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[King Mark 3,626]

so I guess JW will compose this after he finishes refreshing his Lost in Space themes

[Naïve Old Fart 9,505]

On 22/01/2018 at 7:45 PM, Philippe Roaché said:

 

There's only one woman Han encounters in the OT.

 

There's the woman who says "Stand by ion control...fire!", and there's Mon Mothma.

There's a behind-the-scenes photo of the actor who plays Greedo...wearing pink stilettos.

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

On 25/02/2018 at 4:33 PM, Richard said:

There's the woman who says "Stand by ion control...fire!", and there's Mon Mothma.

 

There's a behind-the-scenes photo of the actor who plays Greedo...wearing pink stilettos.

 

Not to mention the Jedi temple librarian aka Snoke.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

21 hours ago, King Mark said:

so I guess JW will compose this after he finishes refreshing his Lost in Space themes

Either that or they could give B. Broughton a call...

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

If this is still happening, I imagine they'll begin recording really soon.

[Balahkay 627]

I thought Powell said in an interview the score would be done in April, so yeah, pretty soon.  I imagine he's heard Williams new theme by now.

[Tom 4,640]

37 minutes ago, someonefun124 said:

I imagine he's heard Williams new theme by now.

At which point, he decided he'd prefer to score the movie Solo. 

[King Mark 3,626]

is there somekind of poster that shows a Williams credit?

 

I have a bad feeling this was a bad internet fake news again

[Balahkay 627]

Williams is the one who revealed it, right?

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

I'm sure the "new" Solo theme's just his rejected Lost in Space theme...

[Manakin Skywalker 4,891]

It was revealed by Williams during an interview with Variety magazine.

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How long until John Powell's name vanishes from the poster?

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

Music by John William Ross Powell Williams.

[Cerebral Cortex 3,357]

So new John Williams/John Powell Star Wars music next month, huh? 

[Balahkay 627]

I hope Williams took the time for write an actual concert piece of the theme rather than a simple piano sketch for Powell to adapt.

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

He did - the new Han Solo and the Princess arrangement.

 

[toothless 963]

11 hours ago, someonefun124 said:

I hope Williams took the time for write an actual concert piece of the theme rather than a simple piano sketch for Powell to adapt.

 

I think he have, and it will be featured in the OST. Or at least I hope

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Apparently the score is finished.

[Jay 37,314]

Official crediting per the new poster:

 

"Han Solo Theme and Original Star Wars Music by John Williams
Score composed and adapted by John Powell"

 

source: https://i.redd.it/0kqf36mg8sq01.jpg

[King Mark 3,626]

Remains to be seen if there will be a real Williams concert version

[DominicCobb 194]

42 minutes ago, Jay said:

Official crediting per the new poster:

 

"Han Solo Theme and Original Star Wars Music by John Williams
Score composed and adapted by John Powell"

 

source: https://i.redd.it/0kqf36mg8sq01.jpg

 

If I'm not mistaken this is the first confirmation that they've actually used the theme he wrote. I wonder, has this ever happened before that Williams wrote a theme for a movie someone else composed?

 

Also, confirmation that they're using existing SW themes (I guess neither of these confirmations are very surprising, but still). What do we think gets a nod? Surely the main theme and Rebel fanfare, right? Maybe Imperial March? Do with think Powell is cool enough to know the original Imperial theme? Do we think the Force theme gets a play even though (it seems like) no one in the movie uses the Force?

[King Mark 3,626]

Superman 4

[Manakin Skywalker 4,891]

I'm surprised they gave JW so much credit for just writing one theme (presumably). You'd think Powell's name would be first.

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He has a good agent.

 

[artguy360 1,843]

It's still strange to me that we are finally getting a Han Solo theme from JW and it's coming from a SW spin-off film of all things.

[Chen G. 3,944]

1 hour ago, DominicCobb said:

Do we think the Force theme gets a play even though (it seems like) no one in the movie uses the Force?

 

Ask Michael “let’s use The Force theme as a epic-wide-shot-of-rebel-spaceships-taking-off theme” Giacchino.

 

And we don’t know how much Williams’ new theme is used in the piece; Powell may want to not quote it all that often and use more of his original score instead, so we’d end up with a handful of statements. Just sayin’.... We’ll have to wait and see.

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I think the score adapted credit is fairly telling, so far as that's concerned.

 

 

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

1 hour ago, artguy360 said:

It's still strange to me that we are finally getting a Han Solo theme from JW and it's coming from a SW spin-off film of all things.

It'd be even stranger, I suppose, if JP gave us a Solo theme before JW did. I'd prefer it that way (grumble grumble), but what the hey, I'll go along with the gag.

[Manakin Skywalker 4,891]

Knowing how much they're talking about it, they probably made JP quote it every minute at least once.

[Chen G. 3,944]

The way its credited makes me suspect that we're getting a concert arrangement of the theme on the CD and/or end-credits, which would be great!

[DominicCobb 194]

3 hours ago, Chen G. said:

 

Ask Michael “let’s use The Force theme as a epic-wide-shot-of-rebel-spaceships-taking-off theme” Giacchino.

 

Yeah, I had thought beforehand that Rogue One wouldn't have much of the Force theme either... I think the worst actually is when its used as intro music for Jimmy Smits. 

 

I will say in fairness to some of its uses, Rogue One is a very dramatic, high stakes epic story, so in that context I can see using this as sort of a general powerful fate theme, but with Solo I don't see that possibility. I'd be very surprised if it makes it in in any sort of natural way.

 

3 hours ago, Chen G. said:

And we don’t know how much Williams’ new theme is used in the piece; Powell may want to not quote it all that often and use more of his original score instead, so we’d end up with a handful of statements. Just sayin’.... We’ll have to wait and see.

 

I'll take what I can get, no expectations from me. One fact that's promising though is if it's a theme for the main character, it'd be somewhat odd if we didn't hear it a good amount.