Steven Spielberg prepares a documentary about John Williams

After a 50-year friendship and more than 20 film collaborations, Steven Spielberg doesn’t remember having a single disagreement with John Williams, with whom he has a sort of “ideal marriage relationship”. For the director, Williams composed (among others) the soundtracks for ‘AI Artificial Intelligence’, ‘Indiana Jones’, ‘ET, the extraterrestrial’ or ‘Jurassic Park’, and although he planned to retire from filmmaking at the age of 90 after composing the music for James Mangold’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’, in the end he decided that he still has many stories to go with it.

The documentary you deserve

With more than six decades in the profession and more than 100 titles to his credit, John Williams’ career is so impressive that It was time to dedicate a documentary to him. Amblin Television, Imagine Documentaries and Nedland Media are in the early stages of development on the project, which will be directed by Laurent Bouzereau and produced by Spielberg, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Justin Wilkes, Sara Bernstein and Meredith Kaulfers. Bouzereau has dealt with other documentaries such as ‘Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind’, ‘Don’t Say No Until I’ve Finished Talking: The Richard D. Zanuck Story’, ‘Mama’s Boy’ or the series ‘The War in Hollywood ‘, is also dedicated to filming realization of and is responsible for dozens of extras accompanying Spielberg films such as “West Side Story”, “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn”, “Minority Report” or “The War of the Worlds”.

Williams is probably the most influential film score composer in the history of cinema and its most recognizable themes, In addition to his collaborations with Spielberg, Williams is also responsible for the main themes of “Star Wars”, “Harry Potter”, “Home Alone”, “Superman” or “Born on the 4th of July”.