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Harrison Ford suits up for the premiere of the new movie Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on Monday night (December 16) in Hollywood.

While the actor is not in the new movie, he still stepped out to support his former co-stars, including franchise vets Mark Hamill, Ian McDiarmid, Billy Dee Williams, and Anthony Daniels.

Also in attendance were co-stars Joonas Suotamo, Dominic Monaghan, Richard E. Grant, and Greg Grunberg, among others. Composer John Williams was seen posing for photos with the guys as well.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters on Friday!

This is great news for fans of the Star Wars franchise!

Composer John Williams has confirmed that he will be writing the theme music for the upcoming film Solo: A Star Wars Story, which will star Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo.

“The present plan is that I’m writing a theme for Han Solo, and John Powell is going to write the score, which he’ll do brilliantly,” Williams told Variety in a new interview.

“His assignment is something I’m very happy about,” he added. “What I will do is offer this to John, and to [director] Ron Howard, and if all parties are happy with it, then I will be happy. … John [Powell] will complete the score. He will write all the rest of the themes and all of the other material, which I’m going to be very anxious to hear.”

Williams wrote the scores for all eight episodes of the Star Wars saga while Michael Giacchino wrote the score for last year’s Rogue One.

Harrison Ford speaks on stage while honoring composer John Williams at the 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute on Thursday (June 9) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

The 73-year-old actor sported a bushy beard at the event!

Also in attendance were three of the biggest directors that worked with John throughout his career – George Lucas (with son Jett), Steven Spielberg (with wife Kate Capshaw), and JJ Abrams.

At the event, Steven confirmed to Entertainment Tonight that John will be scoring the fifth film in the Indiana Jones franchise, which will be released in 2019.

Idina Menzel, Drew Barrymore, and Bryce Dallas Howard pose for photos while attending AFI’s Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute for composer John Williams on Thursday (June 9) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Also in attendance at the event were former Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant and sibling duo Haley Joel Osment and Emily Osment.

During the gala, Idina popped up in the audience to sing the theme music to the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Watch a short video of the moment below!

FYI: Idina is carrying an Alexandra Clancy clutch. Drew is wearing BCBGMAXAZRIA.

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John Williams has composed another brilliant score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and you can now listen to the entire soundtrack below thanks to the Spotify stream!

The movie is playing in theaters across the globe and audiences are surely falling in love with the music once again. How can you go wrong with that main title theme?!

Something that you might not know is that Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer of the Broadway musical Hamilton, contributed to the score. He wrote a couple of songs for the Cantina scene, though they don’t appear to be on the soundtrack. You’ll have to see the movie to hear them!

WHAT DO YOU THINK of the music in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?