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This past friday, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performed a concert, and after a performance of "Battle of the Heroes", Tommy Pearson announced the score would be recorded in London this summer. Member "aj_vader" of JWFan reports:
I was at Birmingham Symphony Hall on Friday night watching the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra do a film music program (Some Williams).
Just after Battle of the Heroes was performed the presenter, Tommy Pearson (think he works at Classic FM) said "John Williams will be returning to London to record the new Star Wars score this summer".
What does he know that we don't?
http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23272&p=1101380
However, Mr. Pearson followed up with Ricard Befan of JWFan:
I just got an email from Tommy Pearson clarifying that he did not mention the LSO and no implication was meant.
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Surprise! When I asked him if he could share more details he replied that he shouldn't have said anything since he certainly doesn't have any details or any insider info, and that he was going on the fact that the film is being produced entirely in the UK.
Since then, whoever runs the LSO's twitter account has spent a lot of time denying that they will do it
https://twitter.com/londonsymphony/status/574700087714119681
http://www.jwfan.com/forums/uploads/monthly_03_2015/post-3-0-17555900-1425914261.jpg
Very interesting. I suspect everyone involved knows where this will be recorded, and are getting their ducks in a row before publicly announcing.
Thoughts?
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Why Pearson make such a statement if he really didn't have any insider info... unless if the person who was at the concert misunderstood him. He may have realize his mistake for the premature announcement and backtracked when questioned.
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Quite a week of breaking tradition.
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Not very surprising all things considered, I'll gratefully receive any new John Williams score, 'Star Wars' or other, regardless of where it's recorded.
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Williams hasnt left the USA for 10 years. Its hardly a surprise
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But the Bond films have traditionally had only a few writers, and recurring composers like Barry or Arnold.
Disney's Star Wars will be very Marvel, i'm sure.
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I thought I remembered that too, but even the original reports seem to state Johnson would get to submit a story or script for episode 9 but nothing else set in stone for him on 9.
What's strange to me though is no continuity in the writing of this new trilogy. That seems like a real handicap, considering both previous SW trilogies are true trilogies with continuing plot threads and not just three unrelated stories like Indiana Jones or most sequels. Lucas obviously wrote the stories to all of them, and Kasdan provided more writing continuity from ESB to ROTJ.
Episode 7 has already been rumored to be almost a one-off story, a single grand adventure, which already seems to be undermining a huge advantage going in of knowing you can tell one big epic 3-part saga if you wanted to. I'm afraid it was this rabid desire to hire J.J. and his lack of interest in committing to the full trilogy that forced Episode 7 to become a one-off.
I guess it could be much more due to the age of the original trilogy´s main actors. I believe TFA will be a send-off for them, and the new characters will take over for the next two films.
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Seems the decision to record in LA was do to the logistics of the scoring sessions taking place over several months.
https://twitter.com/londonsymphony/status/580132931479478272
Also the man is 83 years old, doesn't appear to wish to travel overseas to record the score and this way he stays home, writes the score, drives to his favorite recording studio and gets to use his favorite studio players he's used for decades....
If this is what the man wants to do, that's fine with me.
Ford A. Thaxton
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