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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday June 23 2017, @03:31PM
Star Wars is done for. So is Star Trek for that matter.
Oh, I forgot. Millenials are no-talent losers that can't produce nothing good.
Wow, this is an utterly stupid comment.
Star Trek has been ruined by JJ Abrams, who was born in 1966. Star Wars, if it is ruined by Ron Howard, will be ruined by someone born in 1954. You really think that guys who are 50 and 63 years old, respectively, qualify as "Millennials"?
Howard hasn't had a chance to ruin SW yet, so I'll just focus on JJ, who really did ruin Trek. JJ, at 50, is squarely in Gen-X territory. And considering how everything else these days is going down the tubes, and Gen-X is the one with arguably the most power (the boomers are getting too old), if any generation can be blamed for today's mess it's Gen-X, though the Boomers deserve at least as much blame because they set all this in motion and the Xers are just continuing with their direction.