It’s the most high profile exit of directors from a project in some time. Earlier this year, when Phil Lord and Chirstopher Miller were taken off the Han Solo Star Wars movie by Lucasfilm, they were replaced by Ron Howard, who has now wrapped photography on the film.
They’ve been chatting for the first time since their departure from the project at a panel promoting their animated TV show, Clone High. And the subject of Star Wars inevitably came up. The pair, it should be said, showed a lot of class.
“The experience of shooting the movie was wonderful. We had the most incredible cast and crew and collaborators. I think in terms of us leaving the project, I think everybody went in with really good intentions and our approach to making the movie was different than theirs”, Lord said. “That was a really big gap to bridge, and it proved to be too big. Sometimes people break up, and it’s really sad, and it’s really disappointing, but it happens and we learned a lot from our collaborators and we’re better filmmakers for it. We’re really proud of the work we did on the movie and we wish everybody the best”.
Miller added that “we’re super well-adjusted, obviously we’re doing great. We’re super drunk right now. As Phil said, we had such a great relationship with cast and crew, we were really rooting for them. After we took a much-needed vacation, we got back into it and now we’re writing and producing a sequel to The LEGO Movie and producing a Miles Morales animated Spider-Man”.
Ron Howard is set to be credited as the sole director on the Han Solo project now (having reportedly reshot as much as 80% of the film, with the budget soaring as a consequence). For Lord and Miller, they have a sizeable slate of projects that we very much look forward to seeing. They’ve still not directed a bad movie.
Han Solo movie release date
As part of the official start of production announcement, Disney reaffirmed that the release date for the film is May 25th 2018. There remains speculation that the movie will slip back to December 2018 - December being the opening date for the last two Star Wars films as well as the next one - but right now, Solo is just over a year away.
Cast
- Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, a cynical smuggler.
- Woody Harrelson as Beckett, a criminal and Han's mentor.
- Emilia Clarke as Kira
- Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxy's underworld.
- Thandie Newton
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, Han's Wookiee sidekick and first mate.
- Paul Bettany as an undisclosed character. Michael K. Williams had originally been cast,but he was removed from the final film after being unable to return to set during the film's reshoots. Bettany was cast in his place, with the character being reworked from a motion-capture alien to a human.
Additionally, screenwriter Jon Kasdan and first assistant director Toby Hefferman portray Tag Greenley and Bink Otauna, respectively, two characters that first appeared in the Star Wars comics published by Dark Horse Comics. Ian Kenny, Warwick Davis and Clint Howard are also cast in undisclosed roles.
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