3/18/2015
Thomas Newman Scoring Steven Spielberg's Spy Drama 'Bridge of Spies'
If Steven Spielberg has a movie on the way you can always count on John Williams to be there scoring it. Well, that's not going to happen with his next film, the Cold War drama Bridge of Spies, but nobody is going to have a problem with Williams' replacement.
Due to some health concerns that are thankfully over now, Williams has been replaced on Bridge of Spies by Skyfall and Wall-E composer, Thomas Newman. Anybody got an issue with that? The change may actually do some good in giving Spielberg's film a different tone than we're used to from him. Tom Hanks stars in the espionage drama which tells the true story of lawyer James Donovan who was sent to the Soviet Union to negotiate a captured pilot's release.
Don't worry because Spielberg and Williams will be reunited again on his next film, The BFG, shooting later in 2015.