[Chris Columbus to Direct ‘Thursday Murder Club’]

Columbus is a strange choice considering he’s not really done anything of note for a long, long time. 
 

Percy Jackson, Pixels and The Christmas Chronicles 2 in the last 14 years!

[Chris Columbus to Direct ‘Thursday Murder Club’]

Amblin being involved could be good news if they wanted to try and get JW.

[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Score in the film) - SPOILERS ALLOWED!]

I have just released that 2.15-2.24 of Indy Driver is is basically 3.21-3.31 of Anderton’s Great Escape.

 

 

 

 

Johnny must have been studying his Minority Report score.

[John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)]

“I have the time I need to finish this concerto, and I will begin to have some free time later this year. If there’s an opportunity there that I think I can fill and enjoy doing with people I will enjoy, I see no reason not to do it.”
 

Well, I hope there are some directors reading this.

[THE BOYS]

I assume Homelander will get away with everything… again 😅

[New 20 minute audio interview: John Williams At The Movies]

The snapping snare drum and the rendition of the new Nazi motif on trumpet in “Combat Training” sounds like something JW would put in a concert arrangement.

[Fugues!]

10 hours ago, Faleel said:

Don't see how it would.

Yeah sorry I was thinking of something else

[Fugues!]

Does “The Hunt” count as a fugue?

[New 20 minute audio interview: John Williams At The Movies]

Should have asked him if Bill Ross wrote the second part of the chase 😅

[New 20 minute audio interview: John Williams At The Movies]

Always good to hear an JW interview with some stimulating questions. The part regarding the Tuk Tuk chase was interesting.

[Tatoo with John reference]

24 minutes ago, mrbellamy said:

How about this?

 

I already have that on my forehead 

[Tatoo with John reference]

6 hours ago, JTW said:

Why, you want one, too? I mean one.

I’ve been wanting a JW related one for a while but I’ve never been able to find a design, nor am I creative enough to design one myself. 

[Tatoo with John reference]

On 2/2/2024 at 9:03 PM, fuhrsy31 said:

That is awesome.

 

Question: Do you have your original design for this in a digital format?

 

[THE LOST WORLD (1997) - 2023 2-CD expanded reissue from La-La Land Records now available!]

Fucking hell, imagine being one of the session musicians blowing your lungs out trying to nail that piece and then you sit down and watch the film and you discover it’s been cut. 😅

[Williams nominated for two 2024 Grammys - wins Best Instrumental Composition for "Helena's Theme"]

 

For Helena’s Theme

[Our very first general Kamen thread!]

Something random I came across very recently. I was reading Alan Rickman’s diaries and it appears he was a friend of Michael Kamen’s, as he’s mentioned various times. It appears they socialised a lot. I won’t spoil it for anyone who wants to read the diaries but there is an amusing description of Kamen a month before his death.

 

Incidentally, Rickman seems to have also socialised with Gabriel Yared and Patrick Doyle.

[Harry Potter TV Series in the works]

1 hour ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

But if Del Toro only did one, I think COS would be best suited to his sensibilities.

Would love to see the set of the chamber itself in a Del Toro directed CoS.

[John Williams receives 54th Oscar nomination for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!]

People saying Pemberton has been hard done by, fair enough. Across the Spider-Verse is much more listenable than than the first one. But in my opinion, that’s all it is. It’s like Barbie in a way. It’s fine, but should it be in an awards conversation? No way. Incidentally I think his work on Enola Holmes is much more interesting.
 

It is quite difficult to compare DoD to the other nominations because simply put, there is nothing in the other scores that even comes close to the complexities of structure and orchestration of DoD. JW is just simply from another era and his process is just so different.

To semi-quote Alan Partridge: “Give him another Oscar you shits!”

[Joe Kraemer: “I haven’t scored a single mainstream Hollywood movie since ‘Rogue Nation’”]

Thanks, Jay.

[Harry Potter TV Series in the works]

I think Del Toro would have been a good choice for GOF as well.

 

They should have broken the bank to bring back Cuáron back for HBP.

 

[Joe Kraemer: “I haven’t scored a single mainstream Hollywood movie since ‘Rogue Nation’”]

Came across this on Twitter/X:

 

 

https://x.com/pureevilbich/status/1750168797065941049?s=46&t=qD_26VYTJS4cdEm47c4eUg

 

Apparently McQuarrie told this story on a podcast (not sure if this was recently or when they were promoting Rogue Nation).

EDIT: Not sure how to embed the tweet, so I’ve attached the picture from the original post.

 

[John Williams receives 54th Oscar nomination for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!]

Karpman or JW for me. It will be Goransson though.

[Harry Potter - The John Williams Soundtrack Collection 7CD boxset from La-La Land Records (2018)]

Went back to listen to POA for the first time in a while. I’ve got to say, the part of the album that goes from Chasing Scabbers to Lupin’s Transformation contains what I’d say to be some of the best action music JW has ever written. Some absolutely incredible brass writing in there.

[The Dial of Destiny Appreciation Thread]

Ken Huy Quan went back to acting too late. If he’d only gone back a few years earlier, we could have potentially had a very different DoD.

[Deadline's December 31st Article on John Williams]

People can save this post and remind me about it when he completes a two hour score for the Rey movie, but I very much doubt JW scores another movie again.

 

(I probably said this after TROS as well)