Disney+ Composes First 'Music By John Williams' Trailer
Disney+ Composes First 'Music By John Williams' Trailer
The documentary about the 'Star Wars’ and 'Jurassic Park' composer releases on November 1
In just one month, Disney+ will premiere Music by John Williams, a sprawling documentary celebrating one of the world’s most celebrated if not greatest modern composers. The 92-year-old has scored ten of the eleven live action Star Wars movies (including the entire Skywalker Saga), the first three Harry Potter movies, every Indiana Jones movie, 1978’s Superman, and the first two Jaws, Jurassic Park and Home Alone movies, which makes him the composer of each and every one of their iconic theme songs. In fact he composed every Steven Spielberg movie from Empire of the Sun to Lincoln, and that’s just the longer streak. He in fact composed every Spielberg film before The Color Purple, a stretch that includes the scores of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. The streamer and the Star Wars YouTube channel released the film’s trailer on Tuesday.
It is in fact Spielberg whose contributions to the documentary directed by Laurent Bouzerau are specifically highlighted here, as well as "It’s the purest form of art I’ve ever experienced from any human being," Spielberg says of Williams' work. The movie digs into Williams's background and family, and showcases a bunch of luminaries waxing on about the composer's legacy, including commentary from George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, and Ron Howard, all of whom’s samples of which are in the trailer. Williams also discusses what his long career has meant to him: "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."
Other contributors previously revealed include Chris Columbus, Ke Huy Quan, James Mangold, Kate Capshaw, Gustavo Dudamel, Itzhak Perlman, Lawrence Kasdan, Yo-Yo Ma, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Thomas Newman, Seth MacFarlane, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Branford Marsalis. Music by John Williams will debut at AFI Fest on October 23. Details of an alleged limited theatrical release have yet to be specified but linguistically seems to wrap before the November 1 Disney+ premiere.
Source: USA Today