A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

On Quora, Erik Todd asks: How many Star Wars movies did John Williams compose original music for? My reply: Since 1977, Maestro John Williams has written the original scores for nine films in the  Star Wars  movie series. They are: Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope  (1977) Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back  (1980) Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi  (1983) Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace  (1999) Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones  (2002) Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith  (2005) Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens ( 2015) Star Wars - Episode VIII: The Last Jedi  (2017) Star Wars - Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker  (2019) In addition, Maestro Williams composed  The Adventures of Han  for  Solo: A Star Wars Story.  Composer John Powell wrote most of  Solo’s  original score, but he also adapted some of Williams’  Star Wars  themes for a few scenes in the 2018 Anthology film directed by Ron Howard.

On May 25, 2018, Walt Disney Motion Pictures released director Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, the second Star Wars Anthology film produced by Lucasfilm and the 11 th feature film in the franchise set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” On the same day, Walt Disney Records dropped Solo: A Star Wars Story – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a 20-track selection of themes and action cues from the first of what might just be a series of films that chronicle the adventures of Han Solo before his involvement with the Rebel Alliance. Since Solo: A Star Wars Story is set 13-10 years before Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope, composer John Powell doesn’t begin his score with John Williams’ Star Wars Main Title theme. He did, however, collaborate with Maestro Williams, who composed and conducted the first track on the soundtrack album, The Adventures of Han. Although this Williams theme is not the same one that music score fans fondly remember as Han Solo and