The future of Star Wars music. Which composers would you like to see involved?

Wow @tm0910196 the Newman track is incredible!! Very moving....love it!! Thanks

 

Another thought: Alan Silvestri, if he hasn’t been mentioned.

I’m not super familiar with his work, but his Captain America March is pretty inspired. A shame the sequels got rid of it!

 

Any takers for Danny Elfman? A gothic score for a darker anthology film could be pretty neat.

 

After discussing all this and listening to a lot of new things....I still come back to Giacchino and Howard Shore. I had really forgotten how epic the score was for the LOTR Trilogy. I think a Shore SW Trilogy would be majestic....

 

This is the list of complaints I would have over Shore scoring Star Wars:

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It’s a long list, I know!

 

Yeah. It’s a bit tough. On one side of Hollywood you have Remote Control Productions (Hans Zimmer and all the guys who imitate him with varying degrees of memorability), and then on the other you have the predictable list of old-school types (Alan Menken, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, and the late James Horner...).

Some composers occupy a middle ground, like James Newton Howard, John Powell, and sort of Brian Tyler.

What about a popular but less omnipresent name, like Mychael Danna? I’ve only heard Life of Pi, but it was really quite varied and solid.

 

Danna did Moneyball.....don't remember much about the score of that movie, but as a baseball fan I loved the behind the scenes look into managing a ball team....

 

Junkie XL, Hans Zimmer or both.

 

I hope I don't get lynched for this but I think Hans Zimmer is extremely overrated. I hope he never scores a Star Wars movie.

About the composers, I think the style is a lot more important than who would compose it. There are quite some versatile composers who would be able to do a terrific job. What I love about the original trilogy score is how it helped define film scoring, and I would like Star Wars to continue in that way that is so unique and recognizable of the franchise. The original scores have that impressionist vibe, and influences of composers like Holst and Stravinsky. I think that's what made the score so special, and John Williams continued with it to an extent in the prequel trilogy. Then with the sequel trilogy he opted to a more minimalistic approach that's gotten so popular lately in film scoring with figures like Hans Zimmer, where the music is only a backing device that's not meant to be noticed; only a tool to enhance the visuals. Which is of course a totally valid use of a score, but I think the approach John Williams had for the original trilogy is so much better.
I don't dislike the sequel trilogy score. There are for sure some incredible themes from Williams, but I think that in some cues Michael Giacchino did a better job at being Williams in RO than Williams himself with the sequel trilogy.

 

I could defend a Zimmer Star Wars score, (I kinda did on the last page) and sometimes Junkie XL does awesome things (Mad Max!!!!), but seriously, I REALLY hope they keep Junkie XL away from Star Wars!

I can agree that Zimmer is overrated now. The amount of people falling all over themselves in praise of the noise that was Dunkirk is a tad disheartening, and, Interstellar and some Batman aside, I'm not a huge fan of what Nolan has made him put out. But around 2009 and before, he wrote consistently awesome music. The 1990s and 2000s were his golden age, to me.