I didn't even know Lucasfilm was making this movie!

[Archae]

Talk about milking a franchise beyond dry...

Ron Howard takes helm of Han Solo 'Star Wars' film

NEW YORK (AP) - Ron Howard is taking command of the Han Solo "Star Wars" spinoff after the surprise departure of directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

Lucasfilm announced their replacement director Thursday, two days after Lord and Miller left the project over creative differences. Howard gives the reeling production a veteran hand in the wake of Lord and Miller's exit in the midst of shooting.

Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, said filming will resume July 10. The untitled film is about three-quarters of the way through production. About a month of shooting is left, along with reshoots.

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Ron-Howard-takes-helm-of-Han-Solo-Star-Wars-film-430146653.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. So they create more jobs, we get a chance to enjoy it or not, who loses?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. OP does have a point from a creative standpoint, though.

Oversaturation of a story and characters with prequels, spinoffs, compellations, origin stories has a way of killing interest for some.

One of the reasons I lost interest in all the comic book franchise movies out there. Just way too many of them to keep me focused.

I'd rather they spend all their creative efforts in the linear story line rather than give all their characters and their mothers origin stories.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Yes, but life is short, I say do more than less. What I have noticed also is the

teenage boys really love the superhero stuff, the Marvel stuff, but not so much the Star stuff either Wars or Trek.

Maybe that is only the ones in my family, dont know.

[Blue_Adept]

12. It hasn't seemed to have been hurt by hundreds of novels

or comic book series that involve these characters. Or use in video games.

[BannonsLiver]

34. Eh it'll be a while before Star Wars is tapped out.

These aren't the Fast and Furious or Matrix films.

[Gothmog]

2. Disney is going to be making a number of Star Wars films

[Archae]

4. And likely more TV shows too.

[Gothmog]

17. I have to admit that I enjoy the Star Wars Rebel cartoon series

[Volaris]

21. Rebels is good, so was Clone Wars if you haven't watched it all yet.

Only thing about rebels is, by the time we get to RotJ in timeline (if yodas correct) Kanan and Ezra will both be dead. Will be interesting to see how that gets handled.

I could care less about the Solo film, but Obi-Wan standalone with Ewan Mc I would watch the hell out of
=)

[Archae]

22. I saw the "Rebels" episode where Darth Maul confronted the older Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan made it look too easy!

[Volaris]

25. That was the best 30 seconds of television from last year.

I know some people hated it (thought it wasn't long enough and didn't do maul justice)...

Maul realized he had spent most of his life being Obi-wan's bitch. I thought it was fucking brilliant.

[Gothmog]

29. I also like the Clone Wars

[FSogol]

5. They plan on releasing 2 a year for the next 10 years, iirc.

[Gothmog]

18. There is a film at Star Wars Launch Bay on the upcoming movies

[EL34x4]

8. Yep. Disney paid $4 billion for Star Wars. They're not going to just sit on it.

Lots of Star Wars coming down the pipes for the foreseeable future.

I have no problem with this. I like Star Wars films. Mindless entertainment.

[Gothmog]

16. There will be a Star Wars land at the Studios

There is already a nice exhibit at the Studios called Star Wars Launch Bay

[BannonsLiver]

35. I usually cringe when huge companies take over things I like

But the Disney folks have done a great job with the franchise. As a fan it's hard for me to find much to complain about with what we've seen so far.

[longship]

7. More Jar-Jar Binks please!!

NOT!!!

I like Ron Howard as long as he stays the Hell away from George Lucas.

[Brother Buzz]

11. George Lucas is out of the picture. He took the money and ran.

He's not even a creative consultant anymore.

[Gothmog]

19. There is a film at Star Wars Launch Bay which has almost nothing about Lucas

Disney is not going to go the same path as Lucas. I like the way that Disney is handling these projects

[Orrex]

9. Two things this film absolutely should not do:

1. Show Han winning the Falcon from Lando

2. Show Han doing the Kessel Run

I also don't want to see how/why Chewie picked Han as his special buddy.


Which tells me that they will certainly show Han winning the Falcon from Lando and doing the Kessel Run, and we'll certainly see Chewie picking Han as his special buddy.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Prequels and origin stories are really hard to pull off well.

Too often, they're just a tired excuse to explain and visualize well-known canon as opposed to putting forward any sort of compelling story telling.

The Star Wars prequels are the most infamous example of this.


One very notable exception: The "Better Call Saul" series on AMC. They took a seemingly one-dimensional secondary comic relief character on Breaking Bad and turned into an exceptional and extremely well-done series in its own right. Even when introducing characters well-known to the Breaking Bad universe, it never overshadows the series itself.

[Orrex]

13. I agree completely

I've only seen season 1 of Better Call Saul, but I love it.

Regarding the Han movie, I would hope that they'd say "we know about the Kessel Run and about winning the Falcon. Now's our chance to tell an interesting story that the entire world hasn't already heard 20 times over."

DU sometimes loves to thump on Howard, but he's a solid director, and I'm interested to see what he comes up with. Previously I didn't give a bantha's ass about this film, but now I'm intrigued.

[Dr. Strange]

20. I've heard (and keep in mind, this is just a rumor)...

that the story involves Han making the Kessel Run while fleeing both the Borg and the Cylons. (Apparently he double-crossed both in some kind of tomfoolery.) He leads both groups to the desert planet of Arrakis, where he has to duel their top warriors in a sand worm race.

David Hasselhof guest stars.

[Orrex]

23. I was skeptical before, but now I'm on board.

Recently I read that there's an actual quasi-canonical comic that has Indiana Jones find the crashed Millennium Falcon somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, complete with a skeleton that obviously belonged to Han.

Meanwhile Chewie is discovered to have been leaving countless big footprints in the forest...

[BannonsLiver]

36. I think that's probably a given

Not sure what the movie will be about if those developments aren't included. I'll say this: I love what Disney has done so far but this seems like it's been a troubled production from day 1. It may end up being the tomato can of the new films.

[Javaman]

14. I give it another 3-4 years before the star wars franchise saturates the market. nt

[Orrex]

24. Maybe, but...

If Disney ends the focus on the half dozen "main" characters and takes advantage of the universe-wide setting, they can get a lot of mileage out of it.

I'm not a fan of the various cartoon series, but even if the films restrict themselves to live action stuff, there are a ton of stories to tell.

[Javaman]

28. possibly.

demographics change even among kids.

[BannonsLiver]

37. Not a chance

[Orrex]

39. Each one of those three things will cut the film's quality by 33%

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Han and Chewbacca: The Early Years (Part VII). Princess Leia: Jedi Cooking (The TV show).

Jabba the Hutt Pull-Up Training Pampers ("Mommy, look! I made a Jabba!&quot . Obi Wan Pale Ale (Drink What Jedi Masters Drink).

Oh, hell, there's LOTSA milk still in that cow!

[hunter]

26. I'm okay with this. Ron Howard is a good guy.

And no one will ever do worse than the shit Star Trek Movie Franchise reboot. The actors, the art, excellent, but Star Wars or Marvel style action-adventure-shoot-em-up-and-explosions IS NOT Star Trek.

[Ilsa]

32. I love the Star Trek reboot with the alternate timeline.

Loads of fun, new stories, twists of personalities due to environment, etc.

I can barely stand to watch the original Star Wars series. Any of them. But episode 7 and Rogue One are excellent.

[Beaverhausen]

27. Did none of you see Rogue One?

Star Wars fans will love the Hans Solo film.

[Gothmog]

30. I loved Rogue One

[Ilsa]

31. I think Rogue One was the best of the SW movies, so far.

I have issues with Ron Howard, though. He botched, I mean totally flucked up the ending of Inferno. They changed it so you could leave the theater and forget you ever saw it. If he had stuck with the book, we would be having conversations about overpopulation, the morality of forced sterilization, etc. Chickenshit.

[obamanut2012]

33. me too

[USALiberal]

38. Foreign Box Office is huge. And the make a profit, so who can blame them? n/t