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I would prefer John Williams to return and to keep scoring the film entries. If this doesn't happen, then my second preference would be for Michael Giacchino to lend his talents to the task. Abrams' and Giacchino's involvement would mark for an interesting crossover between the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises.
I think the Star Wars universe and rich musical history would entice and motivate any composer. For film scoring, I prefer Michael Giacchino to Joel McNeely and McNeely wrote a great entry into the Star Wars canon with Shadows of the Empire. I think Giacchino will do just fine.
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well, since he took over the 007 franchise
it should be Thom Newman
for SW
LOL!!!!!
That'd be... quite a thing to see.
Actually, Thomas Newman would be an excellent choice. Do we all have such short memories that we so quickly forget THE GOOD GERMAN - one of the truest homages to the Golden Age sound ever written by a Bronze-Age composer?
i was kidding, Saul
bruce
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This statement will probably be borderline sacrilegious, but here goes. A lot of posters around here seem to be lamenting that Williams won't be writing these scores (and I find it extremely unlikely that he will write them...). But I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
Williams has evolved considerably as a composer since writing the original trilogy scores and while I like both his older and modern styles for different reasons, in my opinion, his writing style for the original trilogy was far better suited to the Star Wars universe. Although I'm less familiar with the prequel scores and they offer more to discover to my ear, I spin those disks far less than the originals.
My feeling is that Giacchino's writing is a bit more emotionally direct and less ornate that what Williams typically writes now and that whatever he comes up with for the new film(s) will probably sound closer in style to William's original scores than to his prequel scores. Understand, I'm not asserting that Giacchino's a better composer than Williams, just that he might be better for this particular assignment.
One would also hope that Abrams treats Giacchino's score with much more respect than Lucas did for Williams' prequel scores.
Bring on the tar and feathers...
Chris
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NOT hersesy
his last 4 scores for SW wern't any great shakes, nor was his last INDY score anywhere near being a classic.
bruce
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I think Williams could turn in a good score for J.J. if he answered the call. With the prequel trilogy he was scoring *horrible* movies (pretty rare for Williams, especially at that point in his career) AND he was doing so with all of Lucas's meddling (ie. you must score every boring dialogue scene even if it's just noodling underscore). I think J.J.'s Star Wars might give Williams an opportunity to shine again. After all we know he can be fresh and exciting like his "old self" -- just look at Tin Tin! Lots of classic Williams adventure writing in that.
On the other hand, I'd love to hear a Giacchino Star Wars score as well (much more than another Giacchino Trek score, though his wasn't bad by any means).
As to the general news, I'm excited that J.J. is moving on his his true love and I hope Paramount gets someone with more of a Trek feel for that franchise now that J.J. has reinvigorated it. It'd be nice if someone could actually pull off a truly great Trek feature film WITHOUT EARTH IN IT and maybe with some BOLDLY GOING...going on!
And for those people who are against any Trek/Wars cross-pollination. Let me remind you, that ship has sailed (just maybe not in such a high profile way). After all, ILM worked on a lot of Trek films, and tons of other people "in the background" have worked on both franchises...including in the area of music! Lest we all forget the great Fred Steiner's contributions of additional uncredited music to both Star Trek: The Motion Picture AND Return of the Jedi...
Yavar
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One would also hope that Abrams treats Giacchino's score with much more respect than Lucas did for Williams' prequel scores.
Like that Star Trek movie where they dialed out the orchestra in post-production to up the choir and we heard about that edit for over a year on this board?
Okay then.
That edit has NOTHING on the finale of The Phantom Menace in terms of musical butchery. Never mind numerous other issues with music in the prequels.
Chris.
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Williams made a small comment about the upcoming trilogy at the Young Musicians Foundation concert in LA yesterday. (thanks to karelm over at jwfan.com)
“We’re about to play Star Wars [audience interrupts with cheers] and each time we play it, I’m reminded of the first time we played it decades ago. Neither I, nor George, nor anyone else involved thought this would go far or in a few years there would be a sequel and I’d have to revisit the themes…and years later another trilogy. Now we’re hearing of a new set of movies coming in 2015, 2016…so I need to make sure I’m still ready to go in a few years for what I hope would be continued work with George…[more cheers].”
He doesn't know Abrams is directing?
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This is what Michael had to say in a recent interview with Empire.
"I'm a huge Star Wars Fan, but one of the things that excites me most about it coming back is the chance to hear new John Williams music, not new Michael Giacchino music based on John Williams music. I'm excited to hear what he would do, so however it shakes out, it would be great."
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I'd love to hear a Christopher Young Star Wars score.
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