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Ron Howard has been named as the new director of Lucasfilm and Disney's untitled Han Solo movie, sources tell to The Hollywood Reporter exclusively. The official announcement is expected Thursday morning.
The move comes two days after directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were let go from the movie they had spent over four-and-a-half months directing. Creative differences over style and tone came to a head between the duo and Lawrence Kasdan, with the studio backing the veteran screenwriter.
The firing sent shockwaves around Hollywood and beyond as the movie was about three-quarters through principal photography and the replacement of a director at that stage is near-unprecedented.
Howard, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter, will meet with the actors — Alden Ehrenreich is playing the iconic smuggler, Donald Glover is playing Lando Calrissian, with Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and Thandie Newton also on the roll call — to soothe a rattled set and will pore over a rough edit to see what the project has and still needs.
Can Ron Solo save the day?
(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday June 22 2017, @10:40PM (1 child)
So, for the movie about the early life of the guy who nuked the fridge, they'll use the guy who was front row for "jump the shark"?
Sounds like a promising franchise move!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 22 2017, @11:25PM
Lando will be in a relationship with a White woman. The acting will be wooden, everything will be CGI -- especially the most annoying character in the movie (that they will not only not kill off, but feature prominently in further sequels). The alien-language dialog will include words like "peepee" and "caca" and the villains will be Darth PooPoo* and his evil sidekick Dookee. The sound-effects will continue to be cloying and stupid, and there will be a public-service announcement about human-trafficing right in the middle of that scene where Han smuggles underage prisoners from Planet Baboso.
* Who is really, really racist and hates Lando because he's Black. Darth PooPoo's weapon of choice will be the lightspeed-lasso which doubles as a neo-noose for impromptu space-lynchings