John Williams won't score a Steven Spielberg film for the first time in 30 years — theverge.com

For the first time in 30 years and only the second time in his career, John Williams won't be scoring a new Steven Spielberg movie. It was announced today that composer Thomas Newman, who did American Beauty, will instead be scoring Spielberg's next film, a cold war thriller called Bridge of Spies. Williams and Spielberg have famously been working together for over 40 years now, with Williams scoring every Spielberg feature but 1985's The Color Purple. Their collaborations have resulted in incredibly iconic musical themes, like those for Jaws and Jurassic Park.

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