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Krang

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  1. Not that it matters much, but after watching the Abrams interview clip, there's still the possibility that after the locals sing their song in the cantina, some action happens and a new source piece starts up that's just instrumental and composed by Williams. Isn't that what usually happens in Star Wars?
  2. They debuted the voices of key TFA characters using toys yesterday. That was something I would have thought would have been presented with better audio in a trailer first. So the newly recorded score popping up in a car commercial three months out would be on par with this marketing campaign. I just can't fathom the makers of that ad choosing the most expensive option of hiring someone to make it sound like Williams instead of just using the Imperial March, the escape from cloud city or already existing star wars music.
  3. Is that piano intro a variation on the cue that plays with the Force theme at the beginning of the second trailer? If so it could be part of a new theme for Rey?
  4. Williams was trying to build on the Imperial March until Episode 3. So even with the scene of the Clonetroopers taking off, he still held back on it to stick with the plan. Opting for that described "orchestral blowout" that we hear a piece of in the Across the Stars video. But while recording it, it just became obvious that there would be no better place in the prequels to use a bombastic version of the Imperial March. So I completely understand why they changed it and went with what they did. I think it worked out great. I too was also expecting a version of it, maybe with a choir, to be used during Vaders assault on the Jedi temple. Unfortunately the editing wasn't complete with those scenes following the turn in the office and thus Williams just couldn't write anything. The same was for the earlier Kashyyyk scenes showing Luminara Unduli. In fact, the shot of Unduli earlier in the movie was meant to be used during Order 66. But Lucas edited it down and used it as an establishing shot of Kashyyyk. So where once it was a post battle scene where Unduli was about to be shot up, was now a pre battle scene showing her giving instructions to the clones before editing out her death. So many of the shots on Kashyyyk and Order 66 were filmed in post production a year after principal photography. Had Lucas just filmed them in 2003, he might have had a better edit for Williams to work with.
  5. They're taking the Marvel Universe approach to Star Wars. Specifically the Avengers. The Avengers movies are like the Episodes that come out every couple of years, while the individual Iron Man, Thor, Hulk movies fill in the rest. Yet people still go to see these films. So why handle Star Wars any different in this day and age? There's a galaxy worth of stories to tell. As for Williams, if Episodes 7, 8, and 9 are meant to be the new conclusion to the saga, he only has six years to wait to complete the trilogies. Not as bad as waiting 9 that's for sure.
  6. Maybe Uncle George can pony up $30,000 of his newly acquired 4 and a half billion to get Johnny a star as a belated b-day gift.
  7. There's actually a cue from The Phantom Menace that for some reason replays in my head a couple of times a week. It's when we see Coruscant for the first time. Starting with the shot of the planet to the camera panning across the city towards Palpatines balcony. It's a rather dramatic cue but it plays more often in my head than any other John Williams piece. Though the Jurassic Park main theme is probably a close second.
  8. We should go year by year and debate which scores deserved to be nominated to set things right. It would make for one hell of a project...and fight.
  9. I didn't see a topic for this but I just found out he passed away two nights ago. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/25/composer-richard-rodney-bennett-dies Murder On The Orient Express is one of my favorite scores ever composed.
  10. Exactly. He's not intentionally quoting BG. Just using a variation of a section of the main star wars fanfare and masking it because he didn't want all of the OT themes to be fully developed in TPM. Though that said, I can't recall it appearing in AOTC or ROTS. Aside from the opening crawl and the credits, it doesn't appear much in the OT films either. I know he uses it during the chasm crossfire and the throne room in ANH. I think it also shows up once or twice on Hoth in TESB. Maybe I'm forgetting a spot or two.
  11. True. However they did make it sound like Episodes 7,8, and 9 might relate to the trilogies we have based on what Lucas wrote. Then there would be other movies (like the clone wars). So in regards to 7 coming out in 2015, that's not all that long to wait and they might want Williams to act as the glue to tie it all together for those specific films. Plus, while Lucas took 3 years between each film, these next 3 might be cranked out much faster.
  12. I didn't realize they'd be so blatant in referencing the original Bond theme in the new song. Still sounds good though.
  13. Damn. Just missed the song snippets before they got taken down.
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