Alexandre Desplat

‘Rogue One’ Composer Only Had Four Weeks to Write the Score
‘Rogue One’ Composer Only Had Four Weeks to Write the Score
‘Rogue One’ Composer Only Had Four Weeks to Write the Score
In the four decades that Star Wars has dominated pop culture, we’ve never had to hear a soundtrack for a live-action movie that wasn’t written by John Williams. Williams wrote the original trilogy, and then the follow-up prequels, and even dove back in for the soundtrack for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. So the fact that Williams did not write the music for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is just one of many ways in which Rogue One represents a departure from the main story. No Star Wars crawl, no John Williams, no problem? I guess we’ll see.
Composer Alexandre Desplat To Score Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian’
Composer Alexandre Desplat To Score Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian’
Composer Alexandre Desplat To Score Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian’
When the news broke a few days ago that Michael Giacchino was replacing Alexandre Desplat as the composer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, one mystery remained: where would Desplat go next? Today, director Luc Besson revealed that the composer has moved on to his own film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.