The following is a preview of John Williams’ score (via Hollywood-Elsewhere) from Steven Spielberg’s War Horse which marks his first feature film score since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The music was simply taken from the trailer, but should give you a better idea of what it sounds like on its own without any accompanying dialogue or video. If you’ve yet to watch the trailer you can view it here.
You will also hear more from Williams later this year in Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and next year as he will compose the score for Spielberg’s Lincoln.
From director Steven Spielberg comes War Horse, an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets — British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter — before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land.
The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse — an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. War Horse is one of the great stories of friendship and war — a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.
The film is set to hit theaters on December 28 and stars Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Graham, Tom Hiddleston, Niels Arestrup, David Kross, Rainer Bock, Nicolas Bro and Robert Emms.
