John Williams wants to score Star Wars VIII.

I’d like to just establish here that, while of course John Williams should absolutely score Star Wars VIII, if there’s any question at all about his health or happiness going forward then he needs to think of his own needs, too.  I mean, John Williams is a goram icon of the science fiction world.  I mean, look at his Academy Award nominations list*.  It is virtually scientifically impossible that a movie that you [] love is not on that list.

So I don’t want to be greedy here, OK? – Or lean on the guy, because he’s always been there and been as dependable as all get-out. At his age you gotta treat every new score of his as a gift.

(H/T: @dduane)

Moe Lane

*Note. That’s not the list of all the movies John Williams has scored.  That’s the list of all the movies John Williams has scored and gotten an Academy Award nomination for. Dude is kind of frightening, in his way.

7 thoughts on “John Williams wants to score Star Wars VIII.”

  1. “It is virtually scientifically impossible that a movie that you do not love is not on that list.”
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    Umm…care to parse that for me? Because applying the rules of formal symbolic logic to that statement gives me something that, while true, is not what I think you’d want to say: namely, that there is a film somewhere on that list I don’t love.
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    Which there is. Didn’t have to go past “Valley of the Dolls” to find it. But it seemed an odd statement to make about Mr. Williams, when you clearly meant it as a compliment.

    1. I noticed that too, but I’m new here, so I decided to let someone else point it out.

    2. Yeah, he’s geeking out almost as much as that kid with FaceOff a few posts ago. one slip is permissible. I’m more bothered by two consecutive yet conflicting adverbs.

      1. Don’t confuse me with technical terms like ‘dumba$$ mistake”, I’m still detoxing from the political language and don’t need to learn a new vocabulary.

      2. If it makes you feel any better, I could send you a twelve-page proof I did during my misspent graduate days…together with a professor’s five-line refutation.
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        I won’t. Because I’d have to dig it out of storage. But I could.

  2. I don’t think Williams will ever slow down.

    I can see it now. At his open casket viewing, as the mourners file by, he suddenly sits up, grabs an in memoriam card, writes down the last few bars of the score he was working on, then lies back in repose with a smile on his face.

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