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6. What The Music Is Like
The unthinkable is happening: there's a Star Wars film, and John Williams isn't providing the score.
His themes have become as crucial a part of the saga as lightsabers and the Force, and the one guaranteed element of quality across every film, no matter how bad the rest of it may be (indeed, he delivers some of his very best work in the prequels).
It's understandable, though: Williams is now in his 80s, and with work on a whole new trilogy underway, he's more than entitled to a break. The good news is that the man replacing him is pretty qualified to do so, and has actually taken the reigns from him before, with Alexandre Desplat working on both parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
He's an Oscar winning composer, and worked with Gareth Edwards on Godzilla, so the galaxy's music is in safe hands, but what will it sound like? There are some themes that just scream Star Wars, and it may be that Desplat has to pay homage to those while delivering something new and his own, and getting a taste of just what a Star Wars movie without John Williams sounds like is very intriguing.