Alan Silvestri Will Score Steven Spielberg's READY PLAYER ONE, Not John Williams

Legendary Composer John Williams has scored all but two of Steven Spielberg’s feature films over the past four decades (The Color Purple and Bridge of Spies). But now Williams will not be composing the musical score for Spielberg’s Ready Player One, that job will go to Forrest Gump composer Alan Silvestri.

Post-production is happening simultaneously on both Ready Player One and Spielberg’s other film, The Papers, so Williams will score The Papers, it will mark their 28th time collaborating on a feature.

Variety reported that Amblin Productions released a statement on the decision:

“Steven and John decided Alan Silvestri was the perfect choice for ‘Ready Player One’ since Steven has worked (as a producer) with Alan on the ‘Back to the Future’ films in the ’80s and Alan has scored other films for Steven’s Amblin and DreamWorks.”

The Papers hits theaters on December 22 while Ready Player One opens March 30, 2018.

Of Williams’ five Academy Awards three were for Spielberg scores (JawsE.T. and Schindler’s List).

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