If you had to choose...

[Quintus 5,391]

Just for the sake of discussion of course, but if we had the option, the deciding vote, of whether JW scored the new Indy film OR the final two Harry Potter films, which would it be? One or the other. That's either two brand new HP scores from the maestro, or just the one and probably last work on Indiana Jones.

I'd choose and stick with Indy. Something tells me this film is going to be his last truly great work and a rollicking score of the kind we've not heard from Williams in years. Even if both HP scores turned out to be superb vintage Williams, I'd still rather have just the one great brand new Indy score.

[Elmo Lewis 6]

Indy without a shadow of a doubt.

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

Indy it is.

[Morlock 9]

Indy, with but the slightest shadow of a doub.

[Richard Penna 2,082]

Indy. We're almost used to him no longer being in the Potter franchise, and someone else doing an Indy movie while JW is still around is just unthinkable.

[Morlock 9]

I'm happy that it's unthinkable not only to us JWFans. Everyone involved has expressed the same sentiments, as have all the main contributros to AICN, the movie-geek capital of the world.

[Olivier 5]

Any Spielberg project is a priority-- so Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull it is.

[Melange 446]

Indy without a shadow of a doubt.

Indeed.

[Red 73]

It has to be Indy. Harry Potter can manage without Williams, but Indiana Jones just can't.

[John Crichton 4]

Is this even a question?

[Ollie 859]

No, Indy is the obvious answer.

[KingPin 194]

Indy. We're almost used to him no longer being in the Potter franchise, and someone else doing an Indy movie while JW is still around is just unthinkable.

Those were my thoughts exactly.

[gkgyver 1,638]

I'd rather have two new Potter scores than a new Indy score.

Whatever may come with Crystal Skull, it won't beat the first three. With HP on the other hand, there's great new material for stunning Williams music.

[ChuckM 1]

Indy.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

I'd rather have two new Potter scores than a new Indy score.

Whatever may come with Crystal Skull, it won't beat the first three. With HP on the other hand, there's great new material for stunning Williams music.

And you know for a fact Indy 4 won't have great material?

[gkgyver 1,638]

I just know Indy has a legacy that Indy 4 quite possibly won't live up to.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Yes, but at this point I'd rather hear a new Indiana Jones score then yet another Harry Potter score.

Many of the plot points in Harry Potter (ultimate good vs ultimate evil, temptation towards a darker side etc...etc...) is something Williams has already covered in the Star Wars scores anyway.

[Elmo Lewis 6]

But following that logic, couldn't you say that he has already covered love before and therefore most of his love themes are redundant?

Subject doesn't matter - it's how you use it.

[indy4 152]

Somebody mentioned this the last time it was brought up: Other composers can do a pretty good job with Potter, but JW is the only one for Indy.

Indy 4.

But following that logic, couldn't you say that he has already covered love before and therefore most of his love themes are redundant?

Subject doesn't matter - it's how you use it.

Indeed!

[Koray Savas 2,095]

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

100% of people who commented said Indy 4, except gkgyver, but he doesn't count.

[Quintus 5,391]

I'm actually quite surprised by the almost total agreement on this. For some reason I imagined that some folks around here (HP fanboys) might value quanity over quality AND nostalgia.

Thanks for proving me wrong

[Pieter Boelen 633]

I would love two new Harry Potter scores by John Williams; I think Harry Potter CAN'T cope without John Williams. Or at least Patrick Doyle and Nicholas Hooper both did a tremendously unimpressive job. I think there might be some other composers who might do a good job with Harry Potter (James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, perhaps even David Arnold), but the composers they are using instead of John Williams simply do not cut it. The books are brilliant and the movies deserve better. That being said, if I were forced to choose, I'd still go for Indiana Jones. It's my favourite film and score series.

[JoeinAR 1,759]

Its not a question of one or the other, we know we're getting Skulls,

John isn't scoring Half-Blood Prince, but since there is no conflict he could easily do the score for a november release, and Deathly Hallows, which is a project he's publically stated he wants to do, isn't coming out until 2010 so basically the question is stupid, its never been a case of one versus the others, I'd like to have all three, but I'll settle for 2 out of 3.