Brando

The Magic Tree anyone?

I dunno, he used to write Vader as Vadar, so...

I also think its important to understand that people in the industry working on a film don't view it from the same perspective as a member of the audience: its their job and they develop the capability to not "judge" the material in the way that a member of the audience might.
 
That's how, for instance, Williams could write a love theme of remarkable pathos for one of the most pathetic love stories ever committed to the screen in Episode II.
 
So composers and people from the post-production process in general, are not very good judges of their own projects. At least, not while they are working on it.

The man's almost 90 years old and doesn't watch these films aside from working on them. I can guarantee he doesn't know anything about the fandom and wouldn't give two shits anyway. He simply assumed the ending we got was the perfect ending the fans wanted. If you think he's returning to score more films in his 100's then you're nuts.
 
Of course if you're working on a project and want it to succeed (like actors on a press tour) you're going to talk up to it, even if you don't like the product. Obviously he's not going to trash talk the film even if he knows it's not great, because he's too respectful to do that.

I like it

I think he meant that he thought JJ was doing a fantastic job. That he won't say anything about it except the ending. He thinks that it will put us all away, and that he thinks we will love it. I think that's what he meant.

Oh, its that time of year again.

I liked the theory that the blue explosion we see in ROTJ was some sort of bizarre Sith alchemy portal, since the blue "cloud" effect is what we see when he uses it in TCW. Some sort of portal into the World Between Worlds or whatever that lets him go into the future relatively unharmed. It would still be kind of controversial, but I feel it would have explained things better and perhaps would have interwoven the CW/OT/ST a bit better. I feel someone in the storygroup should have mentioned that to JJ; or if perhaps they did maybe JJ made the stupid choice not to use that idea and instead just not explain how Palpatine returned.

Makes sense. I'm still really curious to see who will score the Obi Wan show.

Also, I just saw this lol

 

I seem to have come across an interesting development. Someone on one of my "Max Rebo Band" videos commented that in an interview Ben Burtt had said that Ernie Fosselius had worked on all of the source cues for ROTJ. I've just noticed his name on both IMDB and Wiki, and a 2017 article about the scenes casually saying that they music itself was written by John Williams and Ernie Fosselius, with lyrics by Joseph Williams, and Annie Arbogast (who translated the words), and other claims that Ernie Fosselius wrote the Sail Barge source cue.
 
Does anyone have any additional information about this? I'd never heard of Ernie Fosselius' Star Wars involvement until just now.
 
EDIT: He's credited on the '93 Anthology set, I just hadn't noticed that before.

Yes! But depends what locations they visit I guess. None of the scenes shot so far really lend itself to that type of scoring. 

I might ask Mangold if he'll temp the film with existing Indy music.

BUT got us an isolated score

Yet if it wasn't for Kathleen Kennedy, we wouldn't have 3 new John Williams Star Wars scores, and probably no 5th Indiana Jones on the way...
 
Dunno about you, but I don't want to live in a world where Rey's Theme never existed!

I LOVE IT! It makes me even more excited to see Indy 5, and this is the film I am most anticipated to see next year (the second being Steven Spielberg's next film, The Fabelman's).

They should release everything so they won't have to release anything ever again.

Fixed.

Time Tunnel vol.3 with two John Williams' bumpers

I'm going through old posts. How proud of yourself are you for this piece of insight a year and half before The Mandalorian? Has it already been pointed out that you predicted this?

Deluxe Edition is Varese's branding for a new longer version of a score they'd already released in the past

I attended a dinner last night, and one of the guests (a neighbor of the host) happened to be the doctor for John Wiliams. We had a great conversation - and I was able to hip him to the more jazzy, early work of "Johnny Williams". 
Most of the time living in Los Angeles is a drag, but on occasion the planets align just so and you get to have dinner and great conversation which would only happen here.