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Ron Howard Steps In To Direct Han Solo Movie (hollywoodreporter.com)
Two days after directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were let go in the middle of shooting the Star Wars Han Solo spinoff movie, the spot has been filled. Ron Howard has been named the new direct of Lucasfilm and Disney's Han Solo movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. From the report: 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 needs. Filming will resume on July 10. Howard, who directed 1995's Apollo 13 and won an Oscar for helming 2002's A Beautiful Mind, comes to the Han Solo film with several connections to George Lucas and the worlds of Lucasfilm. He appeared in Lucas' 1973 breakout film American Graffiti and helmed Lucas' 1988 pet fantasy project Willow. Howard also revealed on a podcast in 2015 that Lucas had approached him to direct 1999's Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. Though his recent movies, including Inferno and In the Heart of the Sea, have been costly ventures that underperformed at the box office, Howard is considered to be a safe choice to complete the task, someone who will ably finish the movie while being a calming presence on set.
Keep "Hand Solo if you KNOW what I MEAN" out of the Star Wars Universe!
Trading up two hack directors for a real one.
/.s
Cotton candy, skyward, thru the magic pyramid, littleshots, genius.
I hope it turns out like arrested development (the initial series at least), renegade space pilot from a dysfunctional family.
Nullius in verba
You Canadians are too hard on yourselves.
Han Solo is being recast. He will be portrayed by Don Knotts.
Simply because of this
Will Ralph Mouth or Fonzie be in this one?
Exactly what I expect from Disney: the safest choice.
And this is one of the many reasons that I regard Disney Star Wars as just high-budget fanfic.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Why did Disney cast somebody as the young Han Solo who looks nothing like Harrison Ford? Anybody other than Ford playing Solo was always going to be a hard sell but t cast somebody who looks nothing like him seems idiotic to me considering how Ford's age when he first played him.
Nope, while you play your stupid games, and continue pathetic name calling, China is shitting all over you economicaly. You are a real dumb cunt.
--nomsg
and no dragons? Sigh
Wake me up when I can give a shit.
Really, because I thought the greatest superpower the world has ever seen was a nation of immigrants.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
Only due to the non-obnoxious immigrants
Ron Howard has made quite a few movies. None of them broke any boundaries or even pushed envelopes. What Howard is great at is to make movies that are "safe bets". He's going to deliver a solid movie without any rough edges or bumpy patches. It will go down smoothly like a typical hamburger meal, you'll simply get what you expect and needn't worry about bad surprises.
Or good ones.
It will be technically solid. But don't expect anything that is going to take the franchise into a new direction or anything you could call "artistic". Then again, considering the past few "experiments", I can't really say that this is a bad thing...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So not your family then
Ron Howard has made quite a few movies. None of them broke any boundaries or even pushed envelopes.
Really? What about filming Apollo 13 in freefall (aboard a "vomit comet"), instead of hanging people from wires?
âoeGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and I'll teach them to hate just like regular folks.â
Yes a nation of immigrants who assimilated into the "melting pot", immigrants who learned the local language and accepted the laws of the land and worked to improve the overall society. Not a "salad bowl" as others have started saying where immigrants form their own internal communities, demand recognition of their "laws", refuse to even learn to speak the local language.
I hope this isn't going to distract him from more important matters, like making his planned movie of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves. A TV series adaption would be even better, The Expanse has shown there's a market for fairly hard sci-fi on TV.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
My UID is prime!
and directed the Phantom Menace. Lucas did a terrible job with all but Episode IV.
Ron: Why do you think I dropped acting for directing?
Homer: Because you weren't cute anymore?
We're told this mantra over and over again and are expected to accept it unquestionably. Why?
A great nation is one where people mostly share the same values and work towards them together. Practically diversity results in disunity and conflict.
People different from you can teach you things you didn't know before. Having a diverse population exposes people to various viewpoints and beliefs and perhaps enables them to learn and grow. Even being exposed to things we don't like or disagree with can foster learning and growth, even if it's just identifying what we don't desire. No one population has it all figured out, and no philosophy or belief system has all the answers.
I think you can liken it to genetics. Lack of diversity can lead to undesirable traits being passed down. Adding some fresh and different information to the line mitigates that. I'd argue that society is similar.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
Yes a nation of immigrants who assimilated into the "melting pot", immigrants who learned the local language and accepted the laws of the land and worked to improve the overall society. Not a "salad bowl" as others have started saying where immigrants form their own internal communities, demand recognition of their "laws", refuse to even learn to speak the local language.
You mean your language and your culture. They should become more like you, so you don't have to deal with people different from yourself or adjust in any way.
Did the European explorers and settlers learn the local language and customs when they arrived in the "New World"? No, they took over. Now you are concerned that someone else will do to you what your ancestors did to the people who lived here when they showed up. Ironically, You are actually worried that these new immigrants are just like you.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
Bullshit. Part of the founding of this nation was on the premise that people should be free to maintain their cultural practices that were banned in Europe. The early US was a mixture of people, languages and culture. Over the course of time they eventually merged but it was a long time and there were many battles against them. Who could forget the racist assaults against the Irish? What about the Italians? Do you remember reading about the battle that made its way to the supreme Court to allow German students to be taught in German? Of course you don't, because someone convinced you they are all White and all somehow held hands together and seemlessly merged into one group. There is nothing different about what has happened in the past with immigrant groups and what is now happening. The brown people assimilate and share their culture as much as anyone else. It's hilarious how gullible people are I to buying into the division fear. In the real world son, people like you are pawns for those with power. Right now those with power want a way to divide the nation to ensure they stand out and you are willing to look to them as your Savior.
Clint Eastwood take over the directing. Han would be a lot cooler with a squint and he'd ALWAYS fire first,
Peace is easy to achieve, just surrender. Liberty is much harder get/keep.
What about it? That was still well inside the Earth's atmosphere! He didn't push the envelope of the Earth's sphere and it was a freaking movie about space travel decades after moon travel was possible! Why couldn't he have filmed it IN LUNAR ORBIT?!?
You're ignoring the history of star wars movies.
Given the prequels, "a solid movie with few surprises" would be an improvement. It's star wars, not some arthouse film.
Also, how many surprises are possible? Spolier alerts: we know Lando, Han, the millennium falcon, and chewie are going to live through whatever happens in the movie unless his goth son shows up. At least we're pretty sure. I'd be interested to see a movie where they unexpectedly die before the events of the original trilogy, sure, but not in a good way.
Also, I know I'll probably lose some of my hard-earned cool indie movie cred here on slashdot by saying this but I enjoyed the two recent Disney star wars far better than the other films. Even the original trilogy! They're grandfathered in! They are considered important films because of the historical context there, not because "I got a bad feeling about this" is really quality dialogue.
Finally and more specifically, the previous directors on the film left. The alternative isn't a movie that could turn out to be solid gold under a riskier director, the alternatives are no movie or an absolute train wreck of a movie.
Keep their primitive violent culture out of the US.
That's because the Conservative Christians want their own version of Shria Law and are jealous of the competition.
Yeah, funny how the definition of "great nation" happens to align perfectly with what YOU want...
>None of them broke any boundaries or even pushed envelopes.
Not required. A good story is a good story, and a good director can place it on film effectively. Can carry the STORY not his name.
Not every movie has to be the fire hydrant for an insecure dog to pee on, so that the entire world knows his name.
Unless of course you're from the facebook generation that must impress, capture attention, and demand more & more loyal followers.
Truly. That is why I am hoping that immigrants from middle east countries can teach me how to properly stone adulterers to death, since according to a Pew survey, that's what the vast majority believe in.
Ron Howard has made quite a few movies. None of them broke any boundaries or even pushed envelopes.
Really? What about filming Apollo 13 in freefall (aboard a "vomit comet"), instead of hanging people from wires?
I think that's the "technically solid" part.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Get anybody else to play Woody Harelson's role, and I'll be set to watch this.
Who the fuck is Alden Ehrenreich? I've never seen anything with him in it.
I remember seeing Evolution and thinking Seann William Scott had a kind of Harrison-Fordy demeanor. He could have done a good Han Solo.