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John Williams to compose Han Solo’s theme

Discussion in 'Solo' started by Julius Fett, Dec 30, 2017.

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Do you think that it’s a good idea for John Williams to be composing Han Solo’s theme?

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  1. Julius Fett

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    Very interesting stuff coming in from Variety, who are reporting that, whilst John Powell will serve as the film’s primary composer, the brilliant and legendary John Williams has accepted Powell’s offer to write a theme specifically for the character of Han Solo in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story.

    Speaking to Variety about his most recent opus, The Last Jedi, Williams said that:

    The present plan is that I’m writing a theme for Han Solo, and John Powell is going to write the score, which he’ll do brilliantly. His assignment is something I’m very happy about. What I will do is offer this to John, and to [director] Ron Howard, and if all parties are happy with it, then I will be happy. … John [Powell] will complete the score. He will write all the rest of the themes and all of the other material, which I’m going to be very anxious to hear.
     
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    http://variety.com/2017/film/news/john-williams-star-wars-composer-han-solo-movie-theme-1202650282/

    Wow, great news! I didn't see this kind of deal coming. It's a perfect way to have John Williams involved without signing him for the full thing. I'm so happy he's keen to do this. Now, this is one of my top things I'm looking forward to in this film. It's a shame we're getting this theme so late in terms of the character's development, but I hope it'll sink in.
     
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    Is this a theme for the movie or the character? It would be interesting to have a Han Solo character theme after so many movies. The Falcon has it's own theme. I suspect the Han Solo Theme will have similar elements.

    I'm glad John Williams is involved. I've thought he was the only shining light in the couple Star Wars movies I did not like.
     
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    ...hmmm... didn't know this was happenin'/gonna happen. This'll be interesting to see/hear what it'll be.
     
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    2017 goes out with a bang! Variety has just shared the news that John Williams is writing the theme for the upcoming Solo standalone movie. The legendary composer revealed this in an interview about The Last Jedi.







    Back in July we reported that John Powell joined the Solo production to write the score for the upcoming movie, which will still be released on May 25th 2018.

    What is new now is the fact that the main theme will be written by John Williams - his 9th involvement with a Star Wars movie.

    Since the Solo post production is probably nearing its end, they can start finishing the score with the final cut of the movie.

    Read the full article from Variety here.

    It looks like the Solo marketing campaign is about to start 5 months before the movie's premiere.





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    This is great news. I read it on another news site and had to come here to spill out my joy.

    Even if its just for one theme song, I'm sure its going to be amazing.
     
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    I guess that this is better than Kid Rock penning a rendition of Corellian Badass.
     
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    powell made the theme for united 93...this score is gonna be good
     
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    This is a really cool idea and something I wish they did for Rogue One.
     
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    My Light side. Mastreo Willams returns!

    My Dark. Just a desperate attempt to bring in the haters.
     
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    I took it to mean the main movie theme.?.?
     
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    Great news ;);););)....
     
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    In my opinion they shouldn't have done that.

    I was happy when I heard that Williams would make the music for the sequel trilogy and I really like his work in TFA (TLJ sometimes feels like a remix too much, but in this case, the movie didn't give Williams enough of new elements to create more new themes). However, for me it was the right thing not to choose Williams in RO. At first, for me he is a special compositer, you do not waste in an "ordinary-not-an-episode"-movie. Second, I like the idea that the anthology movies convey another feeling than the episodes - and one step to that is to use another compositer...

    In this special case, he composes the main theme. My problem with this is - besides the fact, that this can't be nice for John Powell -, that maybe we will have a wonderful main theme, that doesn't fit into the rest of the soundtrack. Imagine, we would have heard the main themes we love - Gladiator, Gone with the wind, Indiana Jones - only and just in the intro (and maybe the outro).
     
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