JJ Abrams said that this was the one thing that fans will not find out about until the movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, begins to roll on December 18th for the very first time. Trying to guess what it is? I mean, what crucial element to the film could be so important as to maintain it's secrecy until opening night?
Give up? It happens to be the John WIlliams score that was composed for the next chapter to the Star Wars saga. Think about it. We've only really seen two trailers and both of them use narration as it's focal point of blending each of the scenes together, not the music.
This is a pretty big departure from the way things are usually done. Back in 1977, the iconic score that has come to symbolize Star Wars was attached to every commercial for the film and for all of their toys that were released. Even before Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was released, the soundtrack came out and gave us a large amount of spoilers from the song titles alone. There were the Duel of the Fates which they were promoting like crazy before the film came out, telling us of...well, an epic duel. That alone in it's self might not seem like a big spoiler, but then you go down the list of tracks and you come to Qui-Gon's Noble End. So even before we've seen the movie, we now know that there is a new character named Qui-Gon who's going to eat it in the third act of the film. Just one more reasons why I hated the way the prequels were handled and made.
This past mistake by the handlers of the film may be the driving force (no pun intended) behind Abrams' decision to keep the movie soundtrack under wraps until opening night. My guess, though, is that he wants your first look at his vision of the Star Wars Universe to be a special one, and the soundtrack will absolutely set the mood for each of the scenes in the film. Why spoil that?
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