Deadline claims that Ron Howard is the new director:
http://deadline.com/2017/06/ron-howard-star-wars-han-solo-director-1202118193/
It’s been confirmed by starwars.com.
“Lucasfilm is pleased to announce that Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard has been named director of the untitled Han Solo film.”
i am surprised they haven’t named this thing yet. maybe that is the REAL reason for the firings :p
It doesn’t sound like they have any particular idea what they are doing. Kennedy probably just ordered people to make a Han Solo movie and make it Han-Solo-y. I guess it wasn’t Han-Solo-y enough so now Ron Howard can give it a try.
Well…I think what she did was she tried to ensure Han-Solo-y-ness by hiring his Dad, Lawrence Kasdan.
I dont know what Kasdan’s deal is and I dont know what really happened. Nobody does. But good thing i have a wild speculative imagination. Here’s one version of what happened according to my imagination:
Maybe he thought “hey I’m just the friggin writer, what the frick do I know!!! I’m just Lawrence Kaaasdan” and just threw his hands up in the air when the giggling duo of Lord and Miller continued to ignore his pleas for some faithfulness to the original character. Eventually he gives up as he sees the train is unstoppable at this point. Then Kennedy says to Kasdan…“give me your no bullshit opinion, is this fucked or what?”.
Now from what I’ve actually read (which could also just be speculation), Kasdan said that Solo was selfish and sarcastic; not funny. What kind of character were Lord and Miller creating? How funny? And why did they hire an actor whose best known role is Hail Caesar where he basically plays a simpleton fool clown?