After that, the listener is introduced to Jyn’s theme, a tender melody that sums up the main character (portrayed by Felicity Jones) perfectly, though it is a tad too reminiscent of the Yorktown theme the composer wrote for another Star-associated franchise earlier this year. The style is totally Williams-inspired but it’s still Giacchino’s own thing. It’s a march for Ben Mendelsohn’s villain Director Orson Krennic and it’s wonderful. The album opens with a harsh orchestral hit as the first image pops onto the screen before we get a taste of Giacchino’s first original theme. The film infamously starts without the traditional “Opening Crawl” and sends the viewer right into the action instead. A few missteps in the galaxy but overall a galactic home run As James Newton Howard already proved with “King Kong” in 2005: four weeks can be enough if the artist cares about the project – and Giacchino obviously did. This was going to be the first major Star Wars film not to be scored by Williams, so the pressure was immense.įortunately, though, Giacchino delivered. Still, the chaotic production left the young composer only four weeks to write a two-hour score to one of the most anticipated movies of the year. With Giacchino being as big a Williams-cultist as is possible, the appearance of beloved themes was almost given.
The seven main episodes were of course scored by the living legend John Williams and are probably the most popular soundtracks of all time. Some feared, that the rumors were finally confirmed with “dark” Desplat being ditched for “fun, lighthearted” Giacchino, while others, who were unsure about Desplat in the first place (fearing he might have ignored all of the established themes for new ones) now finally looked forward to the whole thing. The film music community was immediately split. Was the film TOO dark for Disney? Did they change their mind and wanted a fun space adventure again?Īll signs pointed to that unfortunate possibility and then the unthinkable happened: Desplat was replaced by Michael Giacchino. The film was said to be dark and gritty, being the first actual “war film” in a seven-film saga called Star WARS.
Reports of Disney being dissatisfied with the film came along, which discouraged the fanbase. Extraordinarily massive reshoots happened, with rumors stating that Edwards wasn’t even at the helm anymore. Director Gareth Edwards managed to get an amazing powerhouse of a score out of the classy Frenchman, kicking all sorts of ass and blowing all sorts of minds.īut since 2016 was a craphead, it decided to give “Rogue One” (as the film was eventually called) some major production problems. Originally, French composer Alexandre Desplat got the gig, which seemed a natural move, since he already scored the director’s previous big film, the 2014 reboot of everyone’s favorite nuke-lizard: “Godzilla”. The first one was to be released in summer of 2016, before being delayed to December of the same year, and would tell the story of how the rebels managed to get those Death Star plans which Princess Leia would shove into R2-D2 in the original film.
These so-called “Anthology Films” would take place in between the Episodes, wherever the studio feels the need for them, and would revolve around stories of “smaller” scale. You may think “Three movies? I thought Disney wanted to make some money! How will they get money with only three Star Wars movies?”, but Disney already thought about that and BOOM! They announced a set of Spin-Offs. Thus, they didn’t hesitate and announced to give the fanbase another trilogy, following the events of the 1983 hit “Return Of The Jedi”, the third film to be released but the sixth in the chronological order of the saga (don’t question it!). In 2012 George Lucas sold his company, Lucasfilm, to the mightiest empire in the known galaxy: Disney, and along with it, the rights to all of his properties, including, most notably, Star Wars.ĭespite celebrating its 40th birthday in 2017, Star Wars is still a huge brand and rumor has it, that Disney likes themselves some sweet, sweet franchise-money.
(DISCLAIMER: This review uses the alternate pun-titles the composer offered in the CD-booklet as opposed to the boring standard-titles)
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