( CNN ) For the first time ever , we 're getting a live-action `` Star Wars '' movie without the man who composed the `` Star Wars '' theme . `` Star Wars : Rogue One , '' the recently-announced `` Star Wars '' spinoff movie starring Felicity Jones , will not include the soaring music of Oscar winner John Williams . Williams originally scored `` Star Wars '' and every other episode since then , including the upcoming `` Force Awakens '' later this year . However , composer Alexandre Desplat has revealed that he will be working on 2016 's `` Rogue One . '' The film 's director , Gareth Edwards , worked with Desplat last year on `` Godzilla . '' A `` Star Wars '' movie without that iconic Williams sound is certainly something that fans will have to get used to , and Desplat has a big job ahead of him . Williams ' work will also be absent from the next Steven Spielberg movie , `` Bridge of Spies , '' it was announced this week . For the past three decades , Williams has scored every single Spielberg film , but the new movie , starring Tom Hanks and due out October 16 , will be scored by Thomas Newman , best known for the score of `` American Beauty . '' Movie studio DreamWorks attributed Williams ' absence to a `` minor health issue , since corrected . '' Williams ' best known non- '' Star Wars '' music is almost entirely from Spielberg films , including `` Jaws , '' `` Raiders of the Lost Ark , '' `` E.T . The Extra Terrestrial '' and `` Jurassic Park . '' Another upcoming Spielberg movie , `` The BFG , '' will include a Williams score .
Oscar - winning composer John Williams steps aside from 2016 's ` ` Star ` : Rogue One '' Williams will also be absent on Steven Spielberg 's next movie , for the first time in three years . Williams ' music will still be absent on ` ` Star Wars : The ` Awakens '' in 2019 .