I’m fairly new to the site, but I mentioned in a couple posts that I am writing a completely new musical score for the original Star Wars. I have started a new thread to discuss my ongoing work.

I’ve been writing for roughly a month, and in keeping in spirit with the original, I’m writing for full orchestra, no obvious synthesizers. I have 30 minutes of music written to this point, not in order, but mainly concentrated towards the beginning.

I admire Williams’s score and believe it to be the best, period, but as with anything, there are parts that could have been done differently. For example:

-Why does Han Solo never have a theme? In four movie appearances!
-The famous Imperial March? Completely absent from the first film.
-Why does the Force theme play during the Throne Room finale? Every other appearance in the film is because a character is using or thinking about the Force.

Those are some of the changes I plan to make in my score. Any suggestions on other things in the score that could be done differently?