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Not as dull as I expected, but it still sounds like a pretty pale imitation of Arnold.

There's that weirdly out of place insert in Attack on the Jakku Village Part 1.

Usually the final 3 elements of the filmmaking process are the DI (colour grading), sound mix and laying in the visual effects shots (replacing all placeholder previz shots that sit in the film until finalised effects shots are approved). The DI can't be completed until all the effects shots are placed in the film, but they'll grade everything else while waiting for any late VFX shots.

Just imagine if they got cold feet about Desplat's score and asked Williams to step in? I'm guessing he'd turn them down (if he hadn't already).

I'd really like to see another film or two from Craig, but he seemed absolutely miserable promoting the last 2 films. I believe Mendes returning for Spectre was part of the reason Craig was willing to come back, so if he's done then I can't see why Craig would return.

Yeah pretty much, but I like Williams' original intentions here. The only problem was that the film didn't really need it, so they went with something much more restrained and athematic.

A Jurassic Park style expansion would be pretty awful in this instance. I don't recall a single microedit on the JP OST but TLW is filled with them. Unfortunately there's probably little traction with Universal as far as expansions go; if TLW was a Warners or Sony picture, I'd be a lot more confident. While Williams supervised the JP remastering and expansion, Universal released it through their own label and likely have no intention of sharing the pie with this particular franchise.

Yeah, uh, this doesn't sound great. Lots of misleading information from both camps. Has a very Alien Cubed stench about it; a director with a clear objective and a studio with a clear objective, yet neither are aligned. That Disney seem surprised they've got a gritty war film on their hands perplexes me; the filmmakers have been saying that publicly for a year. Were they so busy with TFA they just weren't paying attention to how dark Edwards' film was becoming?

Geez, that performance of The Lost World was a bloody ripper! Such a lively performance, completely reinvigorated my love of that score. Did Williams ever record that concert suite during the sessions? Or is there a performance of him conducting the concert version online anywhere? Far superior to the album version in my opinion.

Never bothered seeing the film in cinemas but the extended edition trailer gave me a headache.

Surely we're only a year away from The Lost World, right? That Matessino/Williams/Spielberg relationship must be bearing some more fruit in the near future...

Who's Trent?

OST version does it no favours; microediting the soft choir as Anakin murders the younglings was a mistake.

Despair not, there's always Ko Ploon Burnt Corpse action figures, complete with starfighter wreckage.

Anakin's Betrayal, a stunning, emotional elegy for the death of nameless characters we don't know, don't care about, but are apparently... good guys, or something. And all due to the betrayal of our... protagonist (?) who is a whiny, unlikeable tit.

The prequels gave us some amazing music. Duel of the Fates - Two boring characters with no personality have a lightsaber battle with a boring villain with a cool design. Across the Stars - Two boring characters with no chemistry, who disagree about almost everything, one of whom murders an entire village of women and children, have an epic love story with the believability of Thomas the Tank Engine. Battle of the Heroes - Two close friends (despite spending the entire film disagreeing and bitching about each other behind their backs) do battle in a giant video game landscape. Williams' music did not reflect the films he was scoring; I shudder to think how ordinary the music would've been if it did.

Nicely put, sums up the Force Theme very well. It certainly transcends the films. Probably the most versatile theme of his career; even after 7 years he's still reinventing it.

Nah, meant the prequels. Lucas was so inept as a director that Williams had to do the heavy lifting in the prequels. There was no chemistry between Christensen and Portman in AOTC, so Williams had to write the most lush, epic and sprawling love theme of his career (he probably pretended he was scoring Out of Africa) to compensate for the total lack of filmmaking ability. Likewise Duel of the Fates, rightly considered the only redeeming aspect of TPM, and far better than that film deserves. The difference with TFA is that a competent director who understood characters was in charge, a bit like Irvin Kershner on ESB. There's a lot of scored moments in ESB which were dialled out because the film stood on its own feet without requiring Williams' music to fill any dramatic blanks (Luke's confrontation with Vader being a good example). Han's death in TFA was always going to be tragic enough without Williams needing to write an Anakin's Betrayal-esque cue (another example of Williams compensating for Lucas).

I think they'd be worried about a dark, depressing film so soon after TFA went to such lengths to appeal to broad audiences. It could inadvertently hurt VIII if they end up following TFA with something "unexpected", as silly as it sounds. You know there'll be those parents dragging along their 5 year olds to see this, unaware of the depressing storyline, and simply because of the STAR WARS text on the poster. Everything in Hollywood is determined by focus groups and market forecasting these days. Oh yeah, and MERCHANDISE!

The Force Theme makes perfect sense for the moment; more about Kylo Ren than Han Solo. The Dark Side takes over his senses and destroys what remained of the light side within him; the cue is a heartbreaking painting of the Force Theme literally being "Torn Apart" by the treachery of a son so lost in himself that he murders his own father. Not to mention the obvious connections to Luke and his failed Jedi training are coming into play here, as well. Alas, they probably found the cue unnecessarily overt for the moment, which is dramatic enough without the music needing to hit you over the head that you're witnessing a momentously tragic betrayal. It's Williams sinking back into prequel trilogy musical storytelling mode, when he spent the rest of the film supporting the drama rather than having to create it. They made the right decision, even if it's one hell of an unreleased cue.

They've had some amazing directors over the years. I hope they pull a Breaking Bad and bring back their best directors over the journey to finish it off.

Gahhhh!

The problem is they've been forced to milk the Sparrow storyline into a 2-3 season arc (I don't see it ending anytime soon). And Jonathan Pryce does a brilliant job portraying a smug, deceitful, hypocritical bastard... but there's only so much of these annoying characters you can endure before you want to stop watching them. A compliment to his performance, though. Considering the books haven't even gone this far (I believe the KL storyline in the books is stuck back where the show ended last season?), the writers probably realised they had nowhere to go if they wrapped up this storyline. It's probably a delaying tactic until Dany lands with her army, maybe at the end of season 7?

I don't consider that confirmation at all. He's not involved in the show yet knows Guess we'll have to wait and see.