Steven Spielberg Developing a Documentary About Legendary Film Composer John Williams — GeekTyrant

John Williams‘ movie scores have impressed me ever since I used to be a child by way of the movies that I watched. Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Additional-Terrestrial is the primary film I bear in mind ever seeing in a movie show and Williams’ rating is seared into my reminiscence.

Whereas I’m. an enormous fan of Williams and his stunning work, I do know nothing in regards to the man behind the magical scores of the movies that I like. Effectively, that’s going to vary with a brand new feature-length documentary that’s being developed by Wiliams’ longtime good friend and collaborator, Steven Spielberg.

Amblin Tv, Think about Documentaries and Nedland Media are within the very early phases of manufacturing on the documentary that’s being directed by Laurent Bouzereau (5 Got here Again, Natalie Wooden: What Stays Behind and Mama’s Boy: A Story From Our Americas). He’s additionally been directing a number of “making of” behind-the-scenes featurettes for the reason that 90s, lots of which had been for movies of Spielberg.

Spielberg is government producing together with Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Justin Wilkes, Sara Bernstein and Meredith Kaulfers.

Willaims is 90 years previous and he lately revealed that he isn’t retiring anytime quickly. He stated: “I am going to stick round for some time. I can not retire from music. A day with out music is a mistake.” He went on to say that he’s acquired ten extra years to go! It’s fairly wonderful how lengthy he’s been doing this… six a long time! And that he’s not slowing down, he’s at present engaged on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future.

Spielberg lately stated of his working relationship with Williams: “I don’t suppose we’ve ever had a disagreement. I imply, what am I going to do? Sit down and write the music myself?”

With a profession spanning greater than six a long time, Williams has composed the music and served as music director for greater than 100 movies, together with all 9 Star Wars movies, the primary three Harry Potter movies, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Unintentional Vacationer, House Alone and The E-book Thief. 

THR shared some particulars concerning Willaims’ profession saying: “He started his profession engaged on lots of of episodes of tv within the early days of community broadcasting, composing music for the pilot episode of Gilligan’s Island and reveals reminiscent of Misplaced in House. He additionally created themes for NBC Nightly Information (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press, and the PBS arts showcase Nice Performances. And he has additionally composed themes for the 1984, 1988 and 1996 Summer season Olympic Video games, in addition to the 2002 Winter Olympic Video games. With 5 Academy Awards and 52 Oscar nominations, he’s the Academy’s most nominated dwelling particular person and the second-most-nominated particular person within the historical past of the Oscars, after Walt Disney.”

I’m trying ahead to this doc and It’ll be nice to be taught extra about Williams’ life and profession.