Posted on 06/22/2017 8:41:28 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Lucasfilm is pleased to announce that Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard has been named director of the untitled Han Solo film.
At Lucasfilm, we believe the highest goal of each film is to delight, carrying forward the spirit of the saga that George Lucas began forty years ago, said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. With that in mind, were thrilled to announce that Ron Howard will step in to direct the untitled Han Solo film. We have a wonderful script, an incredible cast and crew, and the absolute commitment to make a great movie. Filming will resume the 10th of July.
Howard has made some of the biggest hits and most critically-acclaimed movies of the modern era. Among his many films are Lucasfilms Willow, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind (winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director), The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon, and Rush. He also narrated and produced the beloved comedy series Arrested Development, starred in George Lucas American Graffiti, and remains a TV icon for his roles in The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days.
The untitled Han Solo film is slated for a May 25, 2018, release.
Yep. Lucas should've sold off the rights after the first one.
It helps if your director is older than the franchise...................
But first, lemme give you a Han. You R2 much.
see you Leia.
I’m just waiting to hear that Han Solo will be recast as a black guy or a muslim woman or something at this point.
That may create issues for Han Solo.
Had the misfortune of watching “Genius” (about Albert Einstein) directed by Opie.
WAY too much conjecture and “you’re a bad husband, a bad father” introspective moments. Wait, did I say “moments”? I meant FULL EPISODES! Good grief, 3 episodes that could have been condensed into 20 minutes to get the point across.
Won’t be watching Opie Solo.
I seriously think Opie’s dad didn’t hug him enough.
With Ron on board the film may have a chance.
10:1 there’s a bit part written for his brother Clint Howard.
“was a bomb though”
Well, I’m not surprised I guess, given that the movie is (loosely) based on ‘Moby Dick’ - a comparatively dry book which spends a good bit of time exploring Cetology.
It should be said that that MD has one of the greatest opening paragraphs in english lit:
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off...”
The first Star Wars was good, because of the ground breaking special effects. Since then, nothing new. Boring.
Ditto. History Channel bought into a loser with that film.
According to Wikipedia, Jim Nabors isn't pining for the fjords yet.
If you're joking about his "orientation", I don't want to know.
I thought he croaked a few years back, oops.
Clint as `Leon’ was always offering the guys his peanut butter and jelly sandwich on the Andy Griffith show.
That’s a sucker’s bet.
“Genius” was an honest attempt that just went wrong. It is self-serving of Einstein, who was just awful to people in and around his family. The show comes off as a 12-steps to redemption movie. The science is (or would have been some years ago) 7th grade level. The story ends with no moral. Nice sets, though.
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