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 Posted:   Jun 9, 2016 - 8:12 PM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)

This is a Steven Spielberg's 30th feature film and 28th scored by John Williams.

It begins filming this summer and Williams will "begin work" this November, according to this Variety article published today

http://variety.com/2016/film/spotlight/john-williams-afi-1201792072-1201792072/

The film opens March 30th 2018.

 
 Posted:   Jun 9, 2016 - 11:08 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

I can't even imagine what Williams is going to do with this. If ever there were a Spielberg movie crying out for a score by someone else, it's this one. I would have been fine with Zimmer scoring this whole thing for "8-bit" synths, honestly.

Cue LeHah's rage in 3...2...

The book goes way overboard in the "hey, remember the 80s?" department, especially toward the end where the author starts to repeat things, but if anyone can find the movie in this, it's the pre-Schindler Spielberg.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 9, 2016 - 11:51 PM   
 By:   Isaac The Red   (Member)

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 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 12:03 AM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

Williams legacy is enormous and today every new score is a gift! cant wait for BFG and READY PLAYER ONE!

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 3:24 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

It would be fun to hear him go the synth/keyboards route.
We know he has dabbled with them (slightly) for HEARTBEEPS and PRESUMED INNOCENT, but an all-out synth score would be both unique and interesting.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 4:00 AM   
 By:   Isaac The Red   (Member)

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 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 4:01 AM   
 By:   Isaac The Red   (Member)

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 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 7:55 AM   
 By:   martyn.crosthwaite   (Member)

It would be fun to hear him go the synth/keyboards route.
We know he has dabbled with them (slightly) for HEARTBEEPS and PRESUMED INNOCENT, but an all-out synth score would be both unique and interesting.


YES!
B ut the best thing would be an electronic score with some orchestral accents/elemen[/endquote


Electronic scores in general are cheap awful nasty and unlistenable .......Jarre , Goldsmith and Barry tried their luck in this department and all failed spectacularly .......

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 8:05 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

"failed spectacularly" wow, that is some overstatement.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 8:06 AM   
 By:   CCOJOE   (Member)

I disagree Marty. John Barry's score for JAGGED EDGE was brilliantly executed from both the synth and acoustic side. When Goldsmith employed synths to augment the orchestra, they were often perfectly integrated into the score. Jarre did tend to go WAY overboard, taking the opposite approach of Goldsmith and using orchestra to augment the synthesized samples and sounds. Still, I'd hardly see he was a spectacular failure.

Heartbeeps is an 80's score for an 80's film. I can't listen to it, but there are many who adore the music and that's great. I LOVED Sleepers and Presumed Innocent. As was mentioned above, if anyone can work a miracle out of this move, it's Spielberg. If anyone can do the same for the score, it's Williams.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 8:23 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

right CCO

 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 8:31 AM   
 By:   TM   (Member)

Keep in mind the feel of a Spielberg movie is going to be massively different than the source material. I can’t be alone in thinking that a Blade Runner type score would not have worked with Minority Report. Even Blade Runner itself would probably hold up better if it had had a score that didn’t so completely date it. Synths are useful that way (in instantly giving a period score flavor) but I have to agree that they aren't the scores from Big Name composers that will stand the test of time. It is a good point that it is an 80's relient book, but I doubt Spielberg is going to make an 80's love fest of a movie. If he does I will be disappointed, because the core story to Ready Player One actually transcends all that, and if it turns into a generational nostalgia flick it will have lost what made a lot of Spielberg's ACTUAL 80's movies hold up so well today...

 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 8:52 AM   
 By:   agentMaestraX   (Member)

Mr JOHN Williams may need to be inspired by the late, great JERRY GOLDSMITH who was a 'GENIUS'
in combining the two formats!

 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 8:53 AM   
 By:   agentMaestraX   (Member)

Shame GENE WILDER not cast in this film! FINE with MARK RYLANCE!

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 8:57 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

Innerspace and Explorers were packed with electronics and they masterpieces

 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 10:55 AM   
 By:   Mark Langdon   (Member)

Even Blade Runner itself would probably hold up better if it had had a score that didn’t so completely date it...

Blade Runner hasn't dated though. Synthpop has had a resurgance in recent years, with lots of pop and indie acts using synths that would've been right at home in the 80s (eg. Chvrches, Crystal Castles, Empire Of The Sun, Goldfrapp, La Roux, etc.) Blade Runner sounds positively state of the art these days.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 1:33 PM   
 By:   DS   (Member)

"Eighties synth" is enormously hip and trendy now, to the point that it's becoming overused, particularly for indie horror film soundtracks. A score like "Blade Runner" (which I like) was routinely bashed in the early 2000s by one and all for sounding the way it does, but that and other scores like it are embraced these days.

Seems many think John Williams may take a synth/ experimental approach here. Like everybody else I look forward to hearing what he does.

 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 1:45 PM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

Why are we presuming that Spielberg and Williams should go the most obvious creative route with this score?

 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 2:48 PM   
 By:   agentMaestraX   (Member)

JOHN WILLIAMS & JOHN CARPENTER would be a perfect pairing for this movie!?

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2016 - 2:55 PM   
 By:   Isaac The Red   (Member)

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