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George Lucas added at least one joke to ‘Solo’

sudshr47 May 4, 2018

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Ron Howard had his work cut out for him stepping into Solo: A Star War Story – not only in working with a beloved franchise but picking up for other directors and the vision created 40 years ago by George Lucas.

Howard told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show that Lucas – who he has known since the ’70s, before Star Wars – is still invested in his characters and in what Han and Chewy would do in Solo.

Howard recalled a day when Lucas visited the Solo set and observed a scene, casually saying “You know what Han would really do there?”

“I said, ‘What?'” Howard told Colbert. “And he told me the joke, he gave me a little joke. And I said, ‘Hey, guess what? Here’s what we’re gonna do in the next take.’ So I know when I hear a good idea.” Read more…

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Donald Glover ate pizza and watched Star Wars after getting the role of Lando

sudshr47 April 12, 2018

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If you didn’t already think Donald Glover was the perfect Lando Calrissian for Solo: A Star Wars Story, wait until you hear what he did when he got the part. Glover went home and watched Lando’s debut in The Empire Strikes Back.

This is the Lando we deserve.

“The day I found out I got it, I remember I bought like a whole pizza and went home and watched The Empire Strikes Back,” Glover said, per CinemaBlend. “That was definitely the beginning, but then I just watched a bunch of other cool ’70s stuff that I thought would be his kind of style.”

“His style” means the style of Lando – a.k.a. Billy Dee Williams, the actor who originated that smooth space smuggler. Glover did his research, and his take on young Lando is already stressing people out in a good way.  Read more…

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Who’s that Wookiee? Chewie has a close personal friend in ‘Solo’ and Star Wars fans can’t handle it

sudshr47 April 9, 2018

Oh Chewbacca, who was that Wookiee I saw you with tonight? 
One scene from the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer that dropped Sunday night is topping many fan’s lists of WTF moments. And it isn’t one about Han, it’s about his trusty furry co-pilot…

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New ‘Solo’ trailer has landed and, uh, we’re all fine here, how are you

sudshr47 April 9, 2018

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We’ve got a good feeling about this — or at least, Han Solo does.

You may have forgotten that Solo: A Star Wars Story is out next month, since Disney and Lucasfilm haven’t done all that much marketing for the spin-off film since its first trailer dropped after the Super Bowl in February.

But that changed Sunday, when a new Solo trailer arrived during American Idol on Disney-owned ABC. 

The trailer focuses on the basic plot of the film — which is not just a “young Han Solo” prequel, but a heist movie, evidently. We see such moments as Han (Alden Ehrenreich)’s first meeting with Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), and his discovery that Chewbacca is a 190-year-old Wookiee who can pilot a spaceship just fine, thank you very much.  Read more…

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Disney revamps ‘Solo’ posters for international marketing

sudshr47 March 15, 2018

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The international posters for Solo: A Star Wars Story have undergone a bit of a makeover.

Following a little snag where Disney’s original character posters were claimed as theft by a French artist, the new ones opt for a slightly different aesthetic that still pairs one character with a matching color.

The color scheme has stayed the same; red-orange for Han, blue for Lando, pink-purple for Qi’ra, and yellow for Chewie. One slight modification is that Han’s now says “Han” and not “Solo” – a minor gripe about the originals when everybody else had a first name (to be totally fair, Chewbacca does not have a last name). Read more…

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Paul Bettany adds another crime boss to the ‘Star Wars’ universe in ‘Solo’

sudshr47 February 7, 2018

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Dryden Vos is a crime boss, and also the name of Paul Bettany’s character in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

He didn’t pop up in the movie’s Super Bowl tease, or in the first full trailer that followed a day later. But we now know what his character is called, by way of a Solo cover story in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Bettany playing a Star Wars crime boss fits with what he’s previously said about the movie. He told Total Film last April (via The Playlist) that Solo is a “gangster movie” and Han’s story is a “caper.” We learn in the new EW story that the monorail thing glimpsed in the first trailer — called a Conveyex — contains something valuable that Han is sent to swipe. Read more…

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‘Solo’ trailer breakdown: Why we have a bad feeling about this Star Wars spin-off

sudshr47 February 5, 2018

The full 90-second teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story is finally here, and it has us wondering whether the spin-off movie needs to change its name.
Now we’ve seen and heard Alden Ehrenreich in the role of young Han Solo, rumors from the set t…

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‘Solo’ Super Bowl teaser shows Han joining the Empire. Or does it?

sudshr47 February 5, 2018

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Han Solo likes to avoid any imperial entanglements … except for that time he nearly joined the Empire.

That’s the main thing we learned from the Super Bowl teaser for Solo: A Star Wars Story, which dropped during the game’s first quarter Sunday. 

The 45-second spot was technically a teaser for a longer trailer set to land Monday — and as such, it went heavy on aesthetic, and light on plot and dialogue.

Young Solo, played by Alden Ehrenreich, doesn’t even get to answer a question about his name; the movie’s logo does that for him. He simply looks at the viewer through the bars of what is presumably an Imperial holding cell.  Read more…

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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ official synopsis released…and it’s a bad sign

sudshr47 January 16, 2018

There are just over four months left to go before the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story. And unusually for this stage in a movie’s promotional cycle, we still don’t even have a publicity shot of the movie’s star Alden Ehrenreich as young Han Solo, m…

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