Steven Spielberg to produce John Williams documentary

Steven Spielberg is going from JAWS and Jurassic Park to John, John Williams that is, with the composer being the focus of a new documentary that is being executive produced by his long collaborator.

The pair first began working together 50 years ago, on the 1974-released Goldie Hawn film The Sugarland Express, the rest as they say is history, or should that be his-score-y?

According to Film Music Reporter the fascinating documentary will be directed by Laurent Bouzereau for Amblin Television, Imagine Documentaries and Nedland Media

Hopefully, one of the many stories we'll get to hear fresh again is how Spielberg initially thought that Williams' pitch of the JAWS theme was a joke and that - like the shark - he was pulling his leg.

We wonder who will be on scoring duties for the documentary? Either way, we can't wait to get a further insight into the maestro and the man who has scored so many of our lives.

The project is reportedly in its early stages of production. As yet, we don't know how retrospective it will be, but it almost feels like it could and should be a multi-part project. Episodes could focus on key films or even a decade at a time - which would probably mean the one from the 1970s would almost need to be as long as the decade itself.

That decade alone includes everything from Fiddler on the Roof, The Poseidon Adventure, JAWS, The Towering inferno, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman: The Movie, JAWS 2, 1941 and Dracula.

Words by Dean Newman

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