No, it wasn’t just audiences and actors who were initially in the dark about Star Wars’ larger plans. John Williams also didn’t know there would be a second movie, and George Lucas didn’t stop him when he took Luke and Leia’s theme from A New Hope as a love theme.
However, unlike Han Solo shooting Greedo first, this didn’t change in later versions, as the music came too much from the Master’s Force-powered explosions (as did the entire original score) . Thank the Creator for this.
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The surprising discovery comes from Variety’s latest report on John Williams’ career and many achievements, which include scoring all nine of the Skywalker Saga films and some keys used in recent spin-offs theme. Williams’ only “mistake” in scoring the first film wasn’t his fault, he explained: “I made the mistake of writing a love theme for Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker. I later learned they were brother and sister. , so it was an incest and I wanted to make a love theme for them. But George never told us there would be a second movie!”
It’s important to point out, for the more casual Star Wars fans out there, that by the time cameras started rolling on the first film, Lucas hadn’t quite figured out the overarching plot of the saga yet. In fact, major (and now iconic) twists, such as the identity of Luke and Leia’s father, and the fact that they are siblings, were locked in very late in the writing of the sequel. However, he could have pushed Williams quickly to avoid doubling down on this angle too much when composing. A George Lucas classic.
Thankfully, everyone loved Williams’ work on the first film, so the theme of “mistakes” wasn’t eliminated and the composer just worked on it for Leia Organa and her in The Empire Strikes Back The true love of Han Solo created a new theme. The tune was equally iconic and widely played, eventually becoming the original soundtrack for The Force Awakens (2015).
Even though the 92-year-old composer repeatedly told us he was done with Star Wars and came back to create something soon after, it looks like he’s done forever Now there is a franchise. With two theatrical spinoffs and several TV series to date, Star Wars has found “alternative” voices that both respect and refresh its musical identity, so when it comes to future screen stories from across the galaxy, The future looks very, very bright in this regard.
