{"id":7874,"date":"2015-08-16T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T11:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2015-08-27T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:30:09","slug":"abrams-on-williams-it-was-like-hearing-music-from-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=7874","title":{"rendered":"Abrams on Williams: &#8220;It was like hearing music from the gods&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarWars_VII\/status\/632644370177634304\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7875 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tfaposter1.jpg\" alt=\"tfaposter1\" width=\"250\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tfaposter1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tfaposter1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tfaposter1-160x238.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday at Disney&#8217;s\u00a0biannual fan convention <a href=\"https:\/\/d23.com\/d23-expo\/\" target=\"_blank\">D23 Expo 2015<\/a>, during which the company announced the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/disney-announces-star-wars-theme-815624\" target=\"_blank\">two <em>Star Wars<\/em>-themed parks<\/a>, <em>The Force Awakens<\/em> director J.J. Abrams\u00a0spoke about going to composer John Williams&#8217; house and hearing the music for the first time:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more exciting than I can put into words. To see the thing come together is truly remarkable. To hear the music that John Williams is writing&#8230; to hear themes&#8230; I went over to John Williams&#8217; house one day and he played me on the piano music that he was going to conduct&#8230; and it was just like hearing music from the gods. It was an incredible thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first official poster for <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em> was also distributed to the fans during the event, and posted online via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarWars_VII\/status\/632644370177634304\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">the film&#8217;s official Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KJXeKVviQoY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=25396&amp;p=1159037\" target=\"_blank\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at Disney&#8217;s\u00a0biannual fan convention D23 Expo 2015, during which the company announced the creation of two Star Wars-themed parks, The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams\u00a0spoke about going to composer John Williams&#8217; house and hearing the music for the first&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=7874\">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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars-episode-vii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","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=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}