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Disney has pushed back the release date, from July 29 2022 to June 20 2023
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/disney-delays-doctor-strange-thor-black-panther-1235091673/
Speculation all the leaked rumors are true. Maybe doing major rewrites and reshoots because of this.
Sounds like the last SW movie all over again.
Nonsense. Disney does not want its crowded slate to generate less revenue. So with one Marvel tumbling down the release schedule everything must follow, and since it´s not like pre-pandemic times anymore they want to leave more time to each film, instead of every film dominating each other and cutting into its box office.
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Regarding the scoring of Indiana Jones vs. the release date, it does not mean reshoots. Everyone involved in a production - and post-production - is contracted for a specified time that can't be extended. People need to get onto other jobs. You can't just call them back in a year. The movie will be scored and finished and the fact that the release date is the following summer doesn't mean it will be worked on in the interim.
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John Williams' "final two films". What a sad phrase to read.
You missed ' expects to be' out . I'd say that loosens it up a bit.
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The sad thing is that, while his recent output doesn't come anywhere near the quality of his glory years, he's still irreplaceable.
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It’s all about cycles.
There are many current scores which again feature memorable leitmotifs.
Fashion changed in the 70‘s. It will change again.
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Anybody who tells you a "hummable" score isn't commercial should check the top-grossing films of all time: GONE WITH THE WIND, STAR WARS, E.T., JAWS, TITANIC, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Granted "bombastic" scores fell out of favour with sniffy tin-eared critics decades ago. I recall a critics' association nominating Mark Isham as "the Composer of the '80s". Nothing against Isham (whose work is rather good) but that was plainly preposterous.
Within the glut of superhero epics these days there's certanly room for grand themes. The fact that there aren't any (I would haumbly argue) is because composers these days are incapable of writing them. Here's hoping that Michael Giacchino shortly proves me wrong.
But will a film ever again be adorned with a score as magisterial as STAR WARS or SUPERMAN? I'm convinced that if a score like that appeared today, people would melt down.
Then again, there isn't much hummable music, period.
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For most of John Williams fans out there; that is actually what makes the score a lot of fun; and there are at least 50 variations on his theme – (and that is the original trilogy alone). That is what makes the score fun to listen to.
And yet; the world has moved on harshly; as people don’t want to hear fun scores anymore… That is modern demographics for you; and it is the way of the world – most probably; for the past 20 years!
The teenagers have ruled since the 1950s; and they will continue to rule the fashion trends - (including film scores).
And yet John Williams remained relevant and fresh to the majority of the audience thanks to the fact that ke kept his pencil going with new projects, both for Hollywood and for other venues. Of course the world changes, that's how it has always been and will continue to be. The Maestro said it very eloquently in the recent New York Times piece: "I feel like I'm sort of sitting on the edge of something and change is happening."
We should be VERY grateful that he wants to spend what remains of his life writing new music for whatever or whoever pleases him (be it the shenanigans of contemporary Hollywood, his pal Steven or his beloved musician friends) instead of staying home gardening his camelias.
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