



The final score for The Force Awakens is over two hours long, Variety reports - nearly as long as the movie. Williams seems much impressed by Abrams, and says Abrams has given the composer as much creative freedom as Lucas did. Abrams is "very similar" to working with Lucas. In the Vanity Fair interview, Williams said that working with Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams takes a Lucas-like approach to music The trailer draws on Han and Leia's love theme and even includes whispered Sanskrit words from the Phantom Menace music "Duel of the Fates," but a trailer is just a trailer, and all bets are off when it comes to how the final score will actually sound.Ĥ. The music in the trailers was reworked from earlier Williams compositions - and includes new material by other composers, though the final score will be Williams's. The new music in the trailer may not appear in the movie "It's a bit like adding paragraphs to a letter that's been going on for a number of years," Williams told Vanity Fair. Williams will reprise, revise, and extend the leitmotifs he developed for characters and themes in the first six films - as well as present new music for the movie's new characters. We'll hear some familiar themes - and some new ones Williams, easily the most popular and widely-acclaimed film composer living today, also wrote the score for the prequels the 2013 announcement that he would return for Force Awakens was greeted with jubilation by fans. Along with key members of the original cast - Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher, who haven't appeared in a Star Wars movie since 1983 - John Williams, 83, is returning as composer.
