Williams is responsible for the soundtrack to every chaptered Star Wars film thus far, including last year’s Episode VII – The Force Awakens, and is similarly billed to score next year’s Rian Johnson (Looper)-directed Star Wars: Episode VIII.
In a recent discussion with John Williams for a piece in Variety, it was revealed that Williams will begin the process of scoring Star Wars: Episode VIII this December, and expects to continue the process through March-April of 2017.
Series spinoff, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, releases later this month and will be the first film in the series not scored by Williams.
John Williams is the very definition of a film legend.