Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) (1 Viewer)

[TravisR]

When Edwards says that the Han Solo movie is different from Rogue One, I'll assume that means that it's a comedy and not as serious of a movie. If you've got Lord and Miller and they've hired a number of comedic actors, comedy seems to be the way to go with this one.

 

[SamT]

I doubt that Disney dares to do a Star Wars comedy yet. Maybe later but I think the stand-alone movies are not still a surefire to do such a risk. Don't know how Rogue One is considered right now but to me it is not a resounding success. It failed on many levels. They still need something to cement the stand-alones.

 

[TravisR]

I doubt that Disney dares to do a Star Wars comedy yet. Maybe later but I think the stand-alone movies are not still a surefire to do such a risk.

I guess comedy isn't entirely the right word but I mean that this movie will frequently be going for jokes in the middle of the adventure. Han and Lando are often used for comedy in the previous movies and I think this movie will use that humor more. If not, it's odd that Disney hired Lord & Miller and Donald Glover.

 

[SamT]

Woody Harrelson reveals Star Wars character details

 

[TravisR]

They'll be live streaming Star Wars Celebration on April 13 to 16.

http://www.starwars.com/news/watch-...ndo-live-on-starwars-com-presented-by-verizon

 

[SamT]

Disney CEO Bob Iger

Spoiler: Han Solo Timeline

Han Solo movie will follow him from age 18 through 24 and show him finding the Falcon, meeting Chewbacca, and getting his name, Iger says

 

[TravisR]

That's terrible news. Not everything needs a goddamn origin. In the words of a great TV show theme, "Think I'll just let the mystery be."

Now, I'll just cling to the hope of Lawrence Kasdan's involvement and that I really like Miller and Lord's other movies.

 

[Bryan^H]

That's terrible news. Not everything needs a goddamn origin. In the words of a great TV show theme, "Think I'll just let the mystery be."

That's what I'm saying Travis. Each time a "backstory" SW film is made, it weakens the mystery, and some of the charm of the OT.
This is the main reason I swore off all SW films from here on.

I don't want some movie filling in my imagination regarding the original trilogy.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

Finally! I've always wondered how he went from "Nerf Herder" to "Han Solo." NOT.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I don't want some movie filling in my imagination regarding the original trilogy.

I feel pretty strongly that anything prior to Return Of The Jedi should be off-limits. I know there's no legal or moral or contractual ground of that feeling. But Rogue One was exactly what I was afraid of - a movie that is technically very polished, but that didn't really feel like Star Wars to me, and added a bunch of backstory that I never bought into. I just didn't "believe" the movie, if that makes any sense. There were individual elements I enjoyed, but I didn't believe that that's where the Death Star plans came from in the first place.

Looks like it'll be more of the same with Han Solo, and if the third spin-off ends up being Boba Fett as previously discussed, even more of the same. (I don't understand why they'd make a Boba Fett origin story movie in the first place; Lucas already did that with Attack Of The Clones.)

Meanwhile, there's a ton of fertile ground in the thirty year period between Return Of The Jedi and The Force Awakens. That's where they should be making spin-offs and filling in the blanks. We know very little about what happens offscreen between those movies, and while some of that narrative space rightly belongs to the new trilogy to color in, there's plenty that the new trilogy won't be focused on.

I really dislike retcons, especially obvious ones. I just had a hard time watching Rogue One and accepting that the events onscreen had always happened between the movies; it felt more akin to fan fiction. (Yes, I acknowledge that George Lucas didn't have every moment of the prequels worked out when he did the original trilogy, so yes, to a certain extent, those could be considered retcons too. But for me, the difference is that Lucas was the author of the original work, so he can adjust his own story as he sees fit. But for new people coming in to take over, I feel strongly that they should leave what Lucas had done as is, and only change or embellish their own additions.) On the other hand, there's thirty years of new ground for them to play in, an entirely new backstory to invent, an entire galaxy of stories to fill in. And yet, they seem to have no interest in any of that.

 

[dpippel]

We need this film about as much as we needed to find out that Darth Vader started out in life as a whiney, petulant little bitch who couldn't act.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

We need this film about as much as we needed to find out that Darth Vader started life as a whiney, petulant little bitch.

Gee, what if young Han was really a kid named Burt Convy, host of many successful game shows in Corellia despite a speech impediment. Then along comes Hondo from The Clone Wars, who makes fun of Burt Convy for being unable to say "Hondo" properly. So he calls the kid "Han-solo" to tease him and the name sticks.

A Thtar Wwwars Thtory.

 

[questrider]

Bert Convy?

 

[SamT]

Yes this literally sounds like an origin story! The one thing they probably shouldn't have done. How bad it will be if Woody Harrelson repeats all the Han Solo's classic lines!

 

[Oliver Ravencrest]

Disney CEO Bob Iger

Spoiler: Han Solo Timeline

Han Solo movie will follow him from age 18 through 24 and show him finding the Falcon, meeting Chewbacca, and getting his name, Iger says

These are all of the reasons I don't want to see this. Oh and

Spoiler

what does he mean by "getting his name"? I thought Han Solo was his name.

 

[TravisR]

I feel pretty strongly that anything prior to Return Of The Jedi should be off-limits. I know there's no legal or moral or contractual ground of that feeling.

For me, I think filling in some backstory is fine and some should be left alone. Whatever someone thinks of how the prequels turned out, I don't see a problem with the idea of making the prequel trilogy simply because A New Hope is the 'fourth' episode so that means that making the first three episodes is fair game. In the case of Rogue One, I doubt that Lucas had given much thought to the theft of the plans beyond what was written in the credit crawl (the radio play has its own version of it but that was a couple years after the movie and while Lucas was involved, it was written by someone else) so I can see them making that one. Plus, RO only has a cameo of one major character & her appearance makes sense so it doesn't really tread on the ground established by ANH.

The problem with a backstory or origin for me happens when they start writing it for a major character that wasn't created by the people making the new movie. Looking at the info Bob Iger gave, there's some stuff that I find hard to imagine that George Lucas intended for the origin of his character and I don't like the idea of someone else messing around in that area.

None of this means that movie will automatically be bad or that what they do with it won't work but it just steps over a line in my mind.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

The problem with a backstory or origin for me happens when they start writing it for a major character that wasn't created by the people making the new movie. Looking at the info Bob Iger gave, there's some stuff that I find hard to imagine that George Lucas intended for the origin of his character and I don't like the idea of someone else messing around in that area.

None of this means that movie will automatically be bad or that what they do with it won't work but it just steps over a line in my mind.

I agree completely.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

I look forward to 2030, when Disney will have a Yak Face cinematic universe.

 

[Chris Will]

Han Solo is his name, we don't need some stupid explanation for his name. Please tell me they're not going to make it some kind of nickname! Han Solo is the characters name, always has been, leave it alone.

Also, we know how he gets the Falcon, again, leave it alone!

I hate the idea of this movie and, so far, I dislike the casting. This is literally the first SW movie that I'm not even remotely excited for.

 

[AshJW]

His real name is Hans Olo, but that doesn't sound well, so he changed it to Han Solo.