John Williams’ brother, Don: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Score Will Include ‘Every Theme That You Ever Heard’ (from IGN)
(with an inference that Episode IX runs for 135 minutes…)
It has been a while since I have heard Jar Jar’s theme 😉
Actually the scores of movies in general and Star Wars specifically are shorter than the actual runtime of the film. Having seen ANH and TESB with an orchestra, one of the first things I noticed is, that there are a number of scenes in both films, that don’t have any music at all. For example the trash compactor scene doesn’t have any score. So, if the score for TROS runs 135 min, we can expect TROS to have a runtime closer to 3 hrs.
Well it depends. I believe TFA and TLJ had comparable lengths for their scores, if not longer. But it’s a different situation with everything. TLJ had about 135 minutes of score and the movie was 150 minutes, which meant the music was a bit more wall to wall than usual for a SW film. TFA had a few scenes where the music was written and recorded but then cut in editing, as well as a lot of alternate cues for scenes due to the prolonged editing and recording schedule of the film (and reshoots).
That being said, in terms of TROS, we know that the schedule is a bit more compressed which means less time for post tinkering like JJ did on TFA. As well, there are less recording sessions for JW. So that being said, we’re basically still looking at a range of scenarios - the film uses all the music and is scored wall to wall or it’s not and it’s just a very long film, or the film ends up cutting a lot of the music and is a typical length SW film.