{"id":159619,"date":"2025-11-29T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/159619\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:42:07","slug":"shawn-levy-teases-the-music-of-star-wars-starfighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/159619\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Levy Teases the Music of ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just before the holiday weekend, Shawn Levy<\/a> shared some new details about\u00a0Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a>,\u00a0specifically its score.<\/p>\n

The music<\/a> of the franchise has been some of the most iconic, largely thanks to the efforts of John Williams<\/a>. For the new film, composing duties will go to one Thomas Newman, best known for\u00a0The Shawshank\u00a0Redemption,\u00a0Spectre\u00a0and Skyfall,\u00a0and more recently\u00a0The Thursday Murder Club. On an episode of Kevin McCarthy\u2019s \u201cOn Film\u2026<\/a>\u201d podcast, the director revealed\u00a0Starfighter\u00a0would be \u201cclassically inspired\u201d and avoid replicating what Williams has already done.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may be inspired by some of that,\u201d he acknowledged, \u201cbut I knew that I needed a big-hearted movie score from a composer who, like John, doesn\u2019t shy away from themes.\u201d As far as getting Newman onboard, Levy said he simply called the conductor up: \u201cI said, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s Shawn, would ever consider\u2013?\u2019 And he said, \u2018Send me the script, and describe your vision.\u2019 And I did both those things, and it was yes, and I\u2019m so stoked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you asked me to name my favorite scores, five of the top ten are Tom Newman. The guy is a maestro,\u201d Levy continued. What he wants from the score of\u00a0Star Wars: Starfighter\u00a0is \u201cmyriad musical signatures that help tell the narrative alongside, and in addition to, the words and images.\u201d<\/p>\n

Promising words, and an exciting prospect for those into\u00a0Star Wars\u2019\u00a0music. Hopefully we get to hear whatever Newman\u2019s cooked up at Star Wars Celebration at some point before\u00a0Star Wars: Starfighter\u00a0itself hits theaters on May 28, 2027.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just before the holiday weekend, Shawn Levy shared some new details about\u00a0Star Wars: Starfighter,\u00a0specifically its score. The music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,20818,6377,20673],"class_list":{"0":"post-159619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-shawn-levy","12":"tag-star-wars","13":"tag-star-wars-starfighter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}