Disney and Lucasfilm have already found a replacement director in the wake of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s departure from the Han Solo Star Wars anthology film: Academy Award winner Ron Howard.
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TFA was a perfect opportunity to see Chewie rip someone's arms off.
If that doesn't happen in this movie, I'll be muchly disappointing. Like gawd, they've been hinting at that for 40 years. Tease much?
There was a deleted scene from TFA where the fat guy from Jakku hunts down Rey at Maz's Castle and threatens her. Chewie intervenes and rips his arm off.
There are some poor-quality videos of it online.
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Rogue One had the same issue, and it was definitely for the best as the early previews looked pretty bad compared to the final product. Hopefully this one fares the same
Did it? I googled online and couldn't find anything about Gareth Edwards ever leaving the project or another director being put in charge. Just that there were re-shoots, but he was still involved with all of that and seems to be the only credited director on the film.
Even if he had to change things or do things a different way, he wasn't straight up fired and had someone else take over. I don't think that can be a good thing, especially late into production. They also canned the first guy who was supposed to direct the movie (Josh Trank) but I think that was before they even had a script.
I've been thinking a lot about this movie, and to me there are just certain Star Wars Characters that you want to see a whole backstory on, and certain other ones that you don't.
Han Solo is almost one that you don't. If you look at his classic biography, he was an Imperial officer recruit, went through the Academy and rebelled when his commanding officer told him to murder wookie slaves including Chewie. Murdered the officer, was thrown out of the service and then won the Falcon in a card game against Lando and became a hard luck smuggler.
See the problem is that when you have a vague notion of a classic character you don't really want to see it explored and expanded because its going to be disappointing.
See in this movie, Solo is going to have to be awesome and heroic, which ruins what he becomes in ANH. Han Solo changed over the original trilogy, he went from a guy who really didn't care all that much, shot people in bars, swindled people out of money and was basically a rogue, and not really a lovable rogue. So in order to make that change really work in the OT, Han Solo really has to be a guy that doesn't do anything all that great in this movie. Maybe he makes a decision to abandon a friend or betray them cause he's broke. That way when he comes back to save Luke in a New Hope it means something, it signals a change.
But if Han does anything in this movie that's noble, or sacrifices himself then that turn around and the start of the rounding of Han Solo into a admirable character is meaningless.
Its just like, as much as I really like Palaptine and think that he's an unbelievable villain, do I want an origins story of Palpatine, Naboo elected official?
Do I want a background story where Palpatine isn't a bad person, but as he becomes more powerful and becomes a wirlwind of evil who believes he's doing the right thing?
I'm not even sure if I want a Boba Fett origins story, mainly because Karen Traviss or whatever her name is completely wussified Fett.
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