John Williams confirmed in a recent interview with Variety that he will be returning to score the final installment in the third Star Wars trilogy. The currently untitled Episode IX will reunite him with director J.J. Abrams who previously helmed 2015’s The Force Awakens. Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac are set to star in the movie, which will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy. Williams has previously scored all eight episodes in the Star Wars saga and is also writing the theme for the main character in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story. Episode IX will be released on December 20, 2019 by Walt Disney Pictures.
Williams’ recent projects also include Steven Spielberg’s The Post, which is expanding nationwide this weekend and is also attached to score Steven Spielberg’s fifth Indiana Jones movie, currently set for a summer 2020 release.
