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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.
I hope it turns out like arrested development (the initial series at least), renegade space pilot from a dysfunctional family.
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Will Ralph Mouth or Fonzie be in this one?
Han Solo is being recast. He will be portrayed by Don Knotts.
THAT should finally put to bed all the "Han shot first" arguments, since Andy never let Barney keep a bullet in his gun - he only had the one bullet, kept in his shirt pocket.
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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.
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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...
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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 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.
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and directed the Phantom Menace. Lucas did a terrible job with all but Episode IV.
Clint Eastwood take over the directing. Han would be a lot cooler with a squint and he'd ALWAYS fire first,
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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.
That's true. And to my knowledge, there was only one episode where Andy ever allowed him to put it in his revolver.
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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.