John Williams to Score Episode IX

We recently learned that John Williams will be writing the theme music for Solo (while Michael Powell will score the film), but now we learn bigger news, according to Variety:

Williams confirms that he told director J.J. Abrams that he will do Episode IX next year. “I would very much like to complete that,” he says.

Williams is looking to cement his Star Wars legacy by scoring all 9 installments of the Skywalker Saga.

As Variety notes, Williams has more Oscar nominations than any other living person (50), and may get his 51st and 52nd nominations this year for his work on The Last Jedi and The Post. The only person with more nominations was Walt Disney, who died having accumulated 59 nominations.

He has won 5 Oscars, the last one being 24 years ago, for Schindler's List. He has also won 23 Grammys.

Mark Hamill, on hearing Williams' music for Star Wars the first time:

Tears were streaming down my face. I was so overwhelmed, so moved, so delighted. He elevated our modest little movie into an epic. We owe him so much. Aside from George Lucas, nobody deserves more credit for the success of those films than John Williams.

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