John Williams Will Score Steven Spielberg’s 2026 UFO Movie

Legendary composer John Williams is teaming up with Steven Spielberg for the iconic director’s currently-untitled 2026 UFO film. The quality was revealed by the president of esteemed performing arts instauration Juilliard School, Damian Woetzel, who was speaking astatine an lawsuit exploring the enactment of Williams.

According to euphony writer Doug Adams, Woetzel told the assemblage Williams is presently successful Los Angeles “doing what helium does: helium is moving with Steven Spielberg connected the adjacent movie.”

Details are scarce connected Spielberg’s mysterious UFO film, which was archetypal discussed backmost successful mid-2024. However, we bash cognize it’s being written by regular Spielberg collaborator, David Koepp, the writer of Jurassic Park, The Lost World, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and it’s backed by Universal Pictures.

The 2026 movie volition beryllium the 30th Spielberg movie scored by Williams, a fig which does not see his consultancy recognition connected 2021’s West Side Story, oregon his people for 2023’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (which was directed by James Mangold).

Williams had antecedently hinted backmost successful 2022 that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny would beryllium his past film, but the composer walked backmost his remark successful 2024, saying, “If a movie came on that I was greatly funny in, with a docket that I could header with, past I wouldn’t privation to regularisation thing out. Everything is possible.”

John Williams is 1 of the astir celebrated composers successful the past of Hollywood. The 93-year-old movie euphony icon has been nominated for 54 Academy Awards, winning five, and is liable for the euphony down Jaws, Jurassic Park, Home Alone, Saving Private Ryan, Superman, E.T., Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and galore more.

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