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Wouldn't it be incredible if Nolan threw everyone a curveball and hired John Williams for this?  The most visionary, big-swinging popcorn director of his generation and our time, paired once for all time with the greatest film composer in history and the greatest melodist of our time, adapting the greatest epic of Western civilization.  Just write theme suites now and sic William Ross on the sync points later, for all I care.  Imagine: a Nolan movie where you could hum the theme!
 
[Wakes up and resigns self to hoping the Mandalorian/Black Panther version of Ludwig Göransson shows up rather than any of the other versions.]
 
P.S. If Göransson is scoring it, Nolan should probably cast Stallone in the lead.  The theme will make it sound like he belongs there anyway...

Yeah I'm only a Christmas Eve and Easter member of the Nolan Church, but this is definitely something to be excited about.

Dear God, I think you just made me admit to myself that I like the action music in Solo better than most of the SW action music Williams has written this century. I feel...cold...

Dear God, I think you just made me admit to myself that I like the action music in Solo better than most of the SW action music Williams has written this century. I feel...cold...

Patrick Doyle prefers John Williams over Bernard Herrmann:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DE5OMQ0Nho1/

Huh? Basically all the arrangements of TFA themes in Jedi Steps and Finale are unique to the end credits suite. The only theme that's copy+pastey is March of the Resistance.

When in the world is Keith Lockhart or Gustavo Dudamel going to release a comprehensive set of all these Williams one-offs for media events and promotional pieces?

1. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
2. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
3. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
4. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
5. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
6. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
7. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
8. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
9. "The Patriot" (Main theme) 
10. "The Patriot" (Main theme reprise) 

You can check the list of pieces included on this page (scroll to the end): https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2024/11/29/neil-percy-podcast/

Finally finished listening through and ripping this CD yesterday, and man, what a treat.  The new musical context really allows the melodies and counterpoint to shine in a new way.  And the fact that it's a double album going beyond the usual suspects is an incredible gift.  It would have been easy to bang this out with twelve tracks of mega-hits plus Schindler, but they really went the extra mile.  I'm ready for John Williams ReIImagined!

Finally finished listening through and ripping this CD yesterday, and man, what a treat.  The new musical context really allows the melodies and counterpoint to shine in a new way.  And the fact that it's a double album going beyond the usual suspects is an incredible gift.  It would have been easy to bang this out with twelve tracks of mega-hits plus Schindler, but they really went the extra mile.  I'm ready for John Williams ReIImagined!

In a way lol. Typed and/or handwritten sheet music leaks out from people who have access to these things in one way or another. We have a lot of these for a lot of scores, complete and incomplete. A handful of Rise of Skywalker cues are out there, including these unused ones. 
 
Mockups are just people using software to copy everything from the sheet music so that a synth orchestra can approximate what it would sound like. Instrument samples have gotten better over the years but obviously we all hope these things were recorded for real and we might hear them someday. 

It’s Sheev. I’m Jofi’s grandfather. Surprise!!

It’s Sheev. I’m Jofi’s grandfather. Surprise!!

I'm old enough to be your father, and you already have more musical knowledge in high school than I will ever achieve in my lifetime.  Bravo!  What a gift to see how this community gives people a venue to share their talents.

I'm old enough to be your father, and you already have more musical knowledge in high school than I will ever achieve in my lifetime.  Bravo!  What a gift to see how this community gives people a venue to share their talents.

Precious moments, special people, happy faces, I can see.

He's back, baby!  2028 Olympic theme all but confirmed!  Theme for Rey's son Jabba Skywalker being recorded in March!

He's walked with a blockchain.

"Damn, I am not sitting pretty!"

Dang, I picked up the 2010 one used at some point and thought I was sittin' pretty.  Now I'm playing out-of-print 2015 samples of "We Slept In" on the La La Land site and comparing them peevishly to the sound quality of my ripped 2010 MP3s.  The life of a JWFan...
 
Oh, well.  I can cheer up with this:
 

Dang, I picked up the 2010 one used at some point and thought I was sittin' pretty.  Now I'm playing out-of-print 2015 samples of "We Slept In" on the La La Land site and comparing them peevishly to the sound quality of my ripped 2010 MP3s.  The life of a JWFan...
 
Oh, well.  I can cheer up with this:
 

I love this new interpretation of Williams' classic Superman theme. I hope the theme will feature throughout the score itself and not just as nostalgia bait for the trailer.

The Chicago PBS affiliate played a Christmas concert from DePaul Univerty the other night, which ended with “Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!” blissfully transitioning to instrumental for the credits. I commented to my brother that it sounded like Dustin Hoffman swordfighting a T. rex on Christmas, which I proceeded to input into an AI image generator, and here’s what I got. 
 
I also highly recommend “Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animal” by the Black Flamingos if I haven’t shared it here before.  A surf guitar Home Alone medley—what’s not to love?
 
Merry Christmas to the filthy animals of JWFan!