Mr. Who

I think the actor who played Finn outlines the issues quite well when he was asked what he would do differently. Asked by an audience member at his spotlight panel what he would do if he were to remake the Star Wars sequels he appeared in (that is, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker, respectively), Boyega was incredibly honest. "It would be mad," said the Attack the Block star, "First of all, we’re not getting rid of Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, all these people. We're not doing that. The first thing we're going to do is fulfill their story, fulfill their legacy. We're going to make a good moment of handing on the baton." In case you've somehow avoided this area of internet discourse (I'm so jealous), Boyega is talking about the fact that the Star Wars sequels killed off original characters Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in ways that fans were... upset about. To put it mildly. But it wasn't only the legacy characters whose arcs Boyega would've changed. "Our new characters," said Boyega, "will not be OP'd [overpowered] in these movies. They won't just grab stuff and know what to do with it. No. You've got to struggle like every other character in this franchise. I'd do that." Even beyond character specifics, though, Boyega's Star Wars would've drawn from different sources than the new movies did. "I'd look to the Old Republic stories," the actor continued, "And see what we can add to the continuation of that. I would definitely want to see Force Unleashed stories in there. I would try to expand the Star Wars universe as much as possible while respecting the lore. If we're expanding the lore, we have to do it in within the respective boundaries that stay true." "But Luke Skywalker wouldn't be disappearing on a rock," concluded Boyega, "Hell no. Standing there and he's, like, a projector? I would want to give those characters way more way more." It’s clear that he grew up as a big fan and it’s quite sad that he had the experience that he did.

While I think that it was a good decision to not have the edited film version of Dragon Alley on the LLL release, I do think that it works so much better in the film than the original cue does. It conveys so much more magic. Sometimes film versions, even when not the composer's intention can be very effective in the film while also being musically pleasing.

Haha that's the auto correct at work Another thing I really appreciated with the WOW score was that among the new themes, there were also musical ideas from the first score which weren't really connected to anything thematically or only appeared once or twice in the first score, which became themes or motifs in the sequel, like the rising idea for Quaritch.

Same for me, definitively my most anticipated score (and movie) of the year! I was initially a bit put off by the idea of Horner’s assistant taking over and scoring 4 out of 5 movies of such a big film series but I was completely blown away by Franklin’s score for Way of Water. He managed in such a great way to make it his own score with great new themes, while being rooted in Horner’s sonic and thematic world from the first score.

Yeah the Netflix and Disney covers look so bad. HBO usually has the logo close to the movie title at least.

Regardless of the recent conversation about Ross, personally I actually prefer the Chamber of Secrets score to Philosopher's Stone

I really hope HGW returns for shrek 5. I know both Powell and hgw worked on the first one but Shrek is really HGWs series by this point and the 4th score was great.

In my opinion, each score should have either a complete release, or a complete release and a short "best of" release. If given a choice between some "listening experience" release where half of the thematic development and musical storytelling gets lost in the interest of keeping it brief and curated or a complete release where a handful of cues might not be my favorites, I'd pick the complete release any day of the week. Given the clear interest in new expansions of scores, it's interesting how the debate about too long OSTs has become a thing. 10 years ago everyone was complaining about missing cues, something which is sadly still often an issue even with longer releases (especially for TV scores) and nobody would dream of complaining about there being too much music released.

This is extremely disappointing news. I guess there goes the concept of thematic continuity in all of the Westeros scores. There are quite a number of themes which would have been logical to use in this show.

I hope that Ronson will deliver a masterpiece but the more I think about this it seems like such a lost opportunity to let someone like Desplat or JNH or Powell who can write great thematic orchestral music create a new series of fantasy scores with thematic development throughout the series of planned movies. Desplat in fantasy mode is great as heard in Golden Compass and Harry Potter so I do hope that Ronson is doing only the songs, but probably this isn't the case. We'll see I guess. Hopefully JNH will do the Potter show although that remains unlikely given the 10 year commitment.

I was also hoping it would be desplat. Desplat scoring Narnia would have been amazing.

Both John Powell and Henry Jackman were left disillusioned after working with Greengrass. I cannot understand why JNH continues working with him. Greengrass makes great films so I guess there’s that and maybe JNH might like awards consideration after all the crazy snubs during the years but I have a difficult time seeing this as a reason to work on these types of scores. Newman and JNH should have won Oscar’s ages ago.

I hope he continues scoring films but of the more orchestral variety. His recent scores for fantastic beasts, jungle cruise etc were amazing so he should get back to writing that type of music. However, as a big fan of his Violin and Cello concertos, I cannot wait to hear his second Violin concerto! I would be very happy with more concert works in the future.

This is my most anticipated score and film of the year! Can’t wait to see it and to see the rerelease of Avatar 2 in cinemas in a few weeks! Given the great thematic care with which Franglen scored the second film, I cannot wait to hear how the themes develop. He mentioned on twitter when A2 was released that the Kiri theme would be heard in full in the third score!

I think that if he writes like he did in Storm of Swords, he could wrap up the story in two books but after having expanded the story and the amount of characters and POV characters in books 4 and 5, I think it will be jarring and difficult to go back to the pacing of Storm so I am also thinking three books are required. it's possible that two volumes of winds and one volume for dream could be a middle ground while actually being an extra book. Incidentally book 4 is my favorite so I hope he continues writing in the same way. But I am also thinking that realistically we probably won't get the final book. I think we will get Winds though within a few years. I think his perfectionism and his endless revisions are to blame more than writers block. My theory, which to some extent has been confirmed, was that he has re written parts of winds many times so it's not unlikely that he has written the same book multiple times by now haha.