{"id":5836,"date":"2013-07-27T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2014-07-05T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T12:48:12","slug":"john-williams-to-score-star-wars-episode-vii-official-announcement-and-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=5836","title":{"rendered":"John Williams to Score STAR WARS EPISODES VII-IX &#8211; Official Announcement and Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams is returning to score <em>Star Wars: Episode VII<\/em>, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced today at Star Wars Celebration Europe. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=38272\" target=\"_blank\">Empire Online<\/a>, Kennedy also announced that Williams &#8220;has committed to being involved in the next three films.&#8221; Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.com\/news\/star-wars-celebration-europe-2013-john-williams-to-score-star-wars-episode-vii.html\" target=\"_blank\">StarWars.com<\/a>&#8216;s new interview with Williams below, in which he discusses composing the music for <em>Star Wars: Episode VII<\/em>, working with Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams, and why he&#8217;s excited about returning to a galaxy far, far away. &#8211; Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.com\/news\/star-wars-celebration-europe-2013-john-williams-to-score-star-wars-episode-vii.html\" target=\"_blank\">StarWars.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=38272\" target=\"_blank\">Empire Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kQ4jZr1w0AI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=22882\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams is returning to score Star Wars: Episode VII, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced today at Star Wars Celebration Europe. According to Empire Online, Kennedy also announced that Williams &#8220;has committed to being involved in the next three films.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=5836\">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":[7,44,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-star-wars-episode-vii","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","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=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}