WithSolo: A Star Wars Storyopening this weekend, I recently sat down with directorRon Howardfor a video interview. During our brief conversation he talked about where the idea to do a young Han Solo movie came from, the tone of the movie,Chris MillerandPhil Lord’sinvolvement, how he wanted all the action in the film to test Han Solo, how they only lost one or two scenes in the editing room (one of them was Han Solo in flight school), and a lot more.
As most of you know,Solotakes place before the first Star Wars movie and follows a young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich)as he befriends his future copilot Chewbacca (Suotamo) and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover).Soloalso starsEmilia Clarke,Woody Harrelson,Paul Bettany,Phoebe Waller-Bridge,Joonas Suotamo,Joonas Suotamo,Jon Favreau, andThandie Newton.Solo: A Star Wars Storyopens in theaters onMay 25th.
Check out what Ron Howard had to say in the layer above and below is exactly what we talked about followed by some recent coverage on the film.
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Here’s the official synopsis forSolo: A Star Wars Story:
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in “Solo: AStar WarsStory,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of theStar Warssaga’s most unlikely heroes.
