The New Star Wars Movie Will Be Missing Something That All the Others Have

When the new Star Wars movie The Force Awakens hits theaters on December 18th, there will be something missing in the opening that has been in every Star Wars movie before it and I'm going to miss it.

George Lucas sold LucasFilm and the rights to the Star Wars films to Disney for a lot $4.5 billion. We were lucky in a way because Disney has plans to make a lot more Star Wars movies and Lucas had no desire to.

The previous Star War movies were distributed by 20th Century Fox. With the sale to Disney, the new film will be the first that 20th Century Fox doesn't have any rights to. That means that the iconic 20th Century Fox fanfare that starts each movie will be missing.

Here it is from The Empire Strikes Back.

The fanfare blended so well with the Star Wars theme because composer John Williams planned it that way as he has said that it was meant as an extension of the 20th Century Fox fanfare.

So what will happen instead? If the what was done on the digital releases of the Star Wars films by Disney are any indication, there will still be a fanfare, but it will be used with the LucasFlim logo and be a piece of previously used Star Wars music.

It's disappointing, but it makes sense. The movie will hopefully be amazing without it, but that anticipation that builds when the opening fanfare starts won't be the same.

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