Originally published July 9, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
Variety is reporting that the ever-busy Steven Spielberg is set to reunite with John Williams on his Pentagon Papers movie The Papers, which will mark their 28th collaboration. However, with post-production on The Papers set to take place alongside Spielberg’s next film Ready Player One, Williams will be sitting out the latter, with Alan Silvestri stepping in to compose the score for the book adaptation.
“Steven and John decided Alan Silvestri was the perfect choice for ‘Ready Player One’ since Steven has worked (as a producer) with Alan on the Back to the Future films in the 1980s and Alan has scored other films for Steven’s Amblin and DreamWorks,” reads the official statement from Amblin Entertainment.
Williams, who is currently working on the score for December’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has worked with Spielberg on all but two of the filmmaker’s movies – The Color Purple and Bridge of Spies.
The Papers is slated to open on December 22nd, with a cast that includes Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Pat Healy, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whitford and Zach Woods. Ready Player One is set for release on March 30th 2018 and stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Hannah John-Kamen, Win Morisaki, Philip Zhao and Mark Rylance.
