The annals of cinema history are filled with iconic duos — Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart, more recently you may add Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone. But perhaps the great cinematic partnership is that which exists between director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams, who’ve teamed up a whopping 29 times to date and are about to make it 30. Yes, as Variety reports, the maestro John Williams is set to score Spielberg’s incredibly secretive upcoming Universal UFO movie at the spritely age of 93.
News of Williams tuning up the band once again came via an unexpected source — Juilliard School President Damian Woetzel. As relayed by author and musician Doug Adams, at an event entitled John Williams – A Composer’s Life: A Night of Stories and Music Woetzel told attendees, “The catalyst [for the event] is John Williams, who is in Los Angeles doing what he does: he is working with Steven Spielberg on the next movie. And that is something to be happy about.” We’ll say! To cherry pick just a few of the duo’s immortal team-ups, Williams and Spielberg have collaborated on *deep breath* Jaws, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Hook, and War Horse. Most recently, Williams scored Spielberg’s deeply personal 2022 movie The Fabelmans.
Precisely what that next movie is, beyond its ‘UFO Event Movie’ designation, remains something of a mystery. What we do know is that it has a hell of a cast, headlined by Josh O’Connor, Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson; it has a hell of a screenwriter, in the form of Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp; and, thanks to Damian Woetzel, we also know that it will boast a score from arguably the greatest living film composer there is. Oh, and it’s set to hit cinemas in June 2026. Yes, the founding father of the summer blockbuster is returning with what’s starting to sound like a total sizzler — Hot Spielberg Summer starts here!
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