{"id":16734,"date":"2025-11-18T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=16734"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:42:28","slug":"john-williams-currently-working-on-spielbergs-next-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=16734","title":{"rendered":"John Williams Currently Working on Spielberg&#8217;s Next Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams is &#8220;working with Steven Spielberg&#8221; on his <a title=\"Science fiction film\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15047880\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upcoming science-fiction film<\/a>, according to Juilliard&#8217;s president Damian Woetzel, who broke the news during last night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juilliard.edu\/event\/182056\/john-williams-composers-life-night-stories-and-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a> at The Juilliard School, as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DougAdamsMusic\/status\/1982965364041375880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> by journalist Doug Adams on social media platform X:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Damian Woetzel (president of Juilliard)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The catalyst 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doug Adams (@DougAdamsMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DougAdamsMusic\/status\/1982965364041375880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The yet-untitled film is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT WE KNOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Recording sessions<\/strong> for the score <strong>started late October<\/strong> in Los Angeles, as confirmed by Mark Graham, head of music preparation at JoAnn Kane Music Service. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/37785-john-williams-is-working-with-steven-spielberg-on-his-2026-ufo-movie\/\">Discussion<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/behindthemoon.substack.com\/p\/hollywood-bowl-stage-dedication-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to John Williams&#8217; biographer Tim Greiving<\/a>, <strong>Williams &#8220;is writing\u00a0<em>every note himself<\/em>, and it seems to be quite a substantial score.&#8221;<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/37808-john-williams-is-writing-every-note-himself-for-spielberg-ufo-movie\/\">Discussion<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams is &#8220;working with Steven Spielberg&#8221; on his upcoming science-fiction film, according to Juilliard&#8217;s president Damian Woetzel, who broke the news during last night&#8217;s event at The Juilliard School, as reported by journalist Doug Adams on social media platform&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=16734\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disclosure-day","category-williamsspielberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16734"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16793,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions\/16793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}