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Solo: A Star Wars Story

Connor Harrison

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Fuerteventura welcomes the cast and crew, as well as a new set, snapshot taken from up above:

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Connor Harrison

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From what I learnt from 'Superman II', Howard will need to re-shoot and crack on 51% of the film now to gain director credential, so with the film 75% complete he'll have his work cut out to refine it in his direction.
 

Lanesully15

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Hey guys, new to this RP. I just wanna make a little input for those who are feeling uneasy about this film.

One order of business is the casting of the smuggler, himself. Han Solo, as we all know him, isn't just a well-developed character, but an icon, which means to screw him up in this movie would be blasphemy. Luckily, we've got my boy Alden. During the casting process, when rumors were flowing like milk and honey, my heart pounded. Now, im not a fan of "Hail, Caesar!", but he was the shining star of that movie. His whole time on screen felt like a glorified audition for the role of Han Solo, even if he had a strong country twang in that movie. Nevertheless, he proved that he had the acting chops to give a good performance in a mostly dull movie (the quality of the film, itself is a matter of debate). I like to call this the Ewan McGregor syndrome, which you all should know why it's called that. Alden even repeated this type of performance in "Rules Don't Apply". These examples point to the hopeful situation that even if the movie falls short - which I doubt it will - we still should look forward to a good Han.

Another order of business deals with the situation at Lucasfilm. This is where most of the divisiveness starts to appear. I've seen a lot of people saying that Phil Lord and Chris Miller shouldn't have gotten the shaft, and that Lucasfilm is giving the good ol' ixnay to creativity. This is what it may look like at face value, but it's completely different to change up the peramaters of a franchise to fit one's usual vision. Lord and Miller were basically making a comedy, and that's not what Star Wars is. If has comedic moments, but its focus is on story, fantastical aspects, emotion, and characters. The franchise has much more to do than just have the characters sit around and crack jokes until the Bantha's come home. What this doesn't mean, however, is that Lucasfilm is pulling a DC and taking the self-serious route. If that's what some people think, then The Force Awakens and Rogue One might like to have a word with them, since they were the funniest Star Wars movies in its long history. On the other side of the situation, the problen remains who should've gotten full say on the film, and the solution is simple: who has been writing Han since 1979? Who has been around for decades to understand how the Lucasfilm formula works? None other than Larry Kasdan and Kathy Kennedy, the latter of which had been around just as long as the former, as she was an assistant on the set of Raiders. They know how to handle these types of situations, and they know what's better for the franchise than two comedy directors, whom I still respect for there work on the 21 Jump Street and LEGO Movie series.

To be honest, the situation couldn't be better. Ron Howard knows these guys and he's been watching Star Wars since it premiered. So after all that explanation and justification, I must say...

Everything's under control, situation normal. Had a slight weapons malfunction, but everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you... how are you?
 

Dark Lord Abaddon

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I don't know what to think about it yet. Han Solo is my favorite "good" character in Star Wars, so to see them choose an actor that looks nothing like a young Harrison Ford is beyond disappointing, I mean, were they even trying? Quite frankly, I'd rather see a CGI Harrison Ford than the new actor they chose, its just too immersion breaking for me. Alden Ehrenreich is a good actor and all, but again, it simply goes back to consistency. Another thing is that Harrison Ford has always been Han Solo. Period. But now there will be two kinds of Han Solo fans. Those who prefer Harrison Ford and those who prefer Alden Ehrenreich, which will spark the argument of who was better. To be fair, I grew up watching the original trilogy, so I'm going to bias. But still, they could have at the very least tried to find someone that looks more like Ford (which I know is possible because my brother and I actually look like we're related to him).

*Get's off soapbox.*
 

Stephanie Swail

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Rumour mill now that 'TLJ' is out the way, is that a teaser for 'Solo' will make it's way over to us in the next couple of weeks to start the promo run.
 
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