For the average viewer, it set alarm bells ringing that it might be a Not Very Good film, at all. Fans were skeptical at the decision to remove Lord and Miller and opt for a safe pair of hands in Howard. This also meant that there was serious bad press before the film had even been finished. This is eating into the film’s profits and makes going up against huge blockbusters like Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2 just that much difficult. That’s going to cost big bucks, obvs.īy the time the film was released, the budget had swollen to a reported $250 million, a similar figure to The Last Jedi’ s production costs. At this point, reportedly over three-quarters of the film had been shot – so new director Ron Howard was forced to reshoot much of the film. Filming began in January 2017, but by June of that year it was reported that the pair had been fired by Disney and LucasFilm for deviating from the script and attempting to turn the film into a comedy caper.
#SOLO A STAR WARS STORY MOVIE#
In July 2015, it was announced that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – whose credits include 21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie and Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs – would be directing the film. The issues on set for Solo were well documented. If they wanted to focus on a character from the original trilogy, the fan-favourite bounty hunter Boba Fett – whose backstory is less well fleshed-out – may have been a riskier but more rewarding option instead, that’s the second standalone character film, slated for a 2020 release. We’ve been given new, compelling characters in the shape of Rey, Finn and Kylo Ren, so a nostalgia trip to discover Han Solo’s origins is going prove difficult to entice viewers who didn’t grow up with the cult of Han Solo.
Han’s backstory as a hustler gadding about the galaxy is hinted at several times, but actually sitting through that is perhaps not what audiences want from a Star Wars film in 2018.
In The Force Awakens his selfless side properly rears its head – and gets him killed.
In the original trilogy he’s an arrogant scallywag who makes the occasional reluctant sacrifice for the cause of the rebels. This is the first standalone spin-off film for any character in the Star Wars canon and Disney/Lucasfilm perhaps didn’t pick the right one.
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