Our good buddy the always awesome Rob Wainfur of The Bearded Trio, writing over at those cool beans at Coffee With Kenobi brings us a fascinating look at our new Star Wars Anthology composer, Alexandre Desplat.
We all knew the day would come. The day that John Williams hands the Star Wars baton to another composer and ultimately the responsibility of providing the oxygen to a galaxy far far away. In 2016 we will see, for the first time the much-anticipated ‘spin off’ Star Wars movie or anthology movie as Lucasfilm likes to call them. ‘Rogue One’ will be directed by Gareth Edwards but equally as notable the composer, will not be John Williams but Paris-born Alexandre Desplat. Lets take a closer look at the composer and try to see what we can expect.
Alexandre Desplat, right now is riding on a wave of success. Just a few months ago at the Academy Awards Desplat won his first Oscar in the category of best original score for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. As coincidences would have it, Desplat emulated John Williams by being nominated for another movie at the same time. That movie was for The Imitation Game. In 1978 John Williams had two nominations, one for Close Encounters and Star Wars which he ultimately ended up winning.
