The John Williams Documentary Now Has a Release Date and Trailer, and We’re Already Emotional

There are a batch of perchance large movies coming retired earlier the extremity of 2024 but here’s the 1 we’re the astir excited about. Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and galore others person teamed up with manager Laurent Bouzereau to marque a documentary about the champion movie composer ever, John Williams, and your archetypal look is yet here.

The movie is called Music by John Williams and it’ll beryllium released connected Disney+ November 1, on with a constricted theatrical merchandise successful New York, Los Angeles, and London connected the aforesaid day. The quality came on with the merchandise of the film’s archetypal trailer, which you tin ticker below. But just warning. Get acceptable to consciousness goosebumps astatine your table oregon wherever you’re speechmaking this.

Disney describes the movie arsenic follows: “From his aboriginal days arsenic a jazz pianist to his 54 Oscar nominations and 5 wins, the documentary takes an in-depth look astatine Williams’ countless contributions to film, including galore iconic franchises, arsenic good arsenic his euphony for the performance signifier and his interaction connected fashionable culture. The movie features interviews with artists and filmmakers whose lives person been touched by his timeless music.”

There are truthful galore things that are breathtaking astir each of this. Having a caller movie wholly filled with Williams’ euphony is one. Seeing the radical successful the trailer, and surely galore others, explicate what Williams means to them is another. Hearing from his household astir what interaction his benignant of philharmonic genius had connected them is yet another. And who isn’t excited by immoderate of the vintage footage successful there? Hopefully, there’s much, overmuch more.

The director, Laurent Bouzereau, is champion known for his behind-the-scenes enactment connected galore of Steven Spielberg’s films. For example, helium directed the caller Harrison Ford documentary you tin inactive spot connected Disney+. What that means is the entree is perfectly unprecedented, but besides possibly things are a tiny spot sugar-coated. Which could beryllium a sound successful immoderate cases but specifically successful the lawsuit of Williams, I’m good with it. It’s conscionable breathtaking that we’ll person this emotion missive to him to bask from present until forever.

One different happening to notation is the footage of Williams connected signifier with chap conductor Gustavo Dudamel—the scenes with each the lightsabers and Williams wearing white. That footage was taken astatine the Hollywood Bowl (we’re guessing successful 2023) wherever Williams has been performing his euphony annually for decades. This year, however, the maestro wasn’t up to it physically truthful the show happened without him. It was incredibly sad. Hopefully, he’s backmost successful 2025 but, astatine the property of 92, there’s a accidental the movie whitethorn person captured his past clip astatine the Bowl.

See? We’re already getting affectional and we haven’t adjacent seen the movie yet. Music by John Williams is retired November 1.

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