Obi-Wan Kenobi's Theme Will Be Composed By John Williams
Star Wars fans are going to hear some familiar music when Obi-Wan Kenobi lands on Disney+ later this year. Legendary composer and Star Wars contributor John Williams will return to the universe, for the musical theme for the series. This will mark Williams’ eleventh musical contribution to the space opera, having scored all nine of the original films, as well as the theme for the Han Solo spinoff.
Variety reports that Williams has already written and recorded the theme for the ongoing adventures of Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. After completing the musical signature, he worked with a Los Angeles orchestra under “tight security” to record. This is quite a big deal as Williams does not often contribute scores to television. In fact, according to Variety his last dip into the television world was in 1985 with a theme for “weekly dramatic series ‘Amazing Stories’”. He has also composed the theme for the Olympics and news channels that are still used today.
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Of course, it is Williams’ work on the Star Wars series that has earned him acclaim. The 90-year-old composer won an Academy Award for the score of the first film back in 1977 and continued to be nominated for the subsequent sequels. In 2018, after completing the scores for the 6 films of the Skywalker Saga, Williams returned to contribute for the theme of “Solo: A Star Wars Story”. He then provided the theme for Disneyland’s “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge” theme park, which would earn him his sixth Grammy for his Star Wars work.
William’s scoring of the Obi-Wan Kenobi theme marks a return to the character for the musician. In 1977 his theme for Alec Guinness's iteration of the character would morph into the iconic
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