Solo - So umm...

[Jimmy Higgins]

So I was checking out who was behind this Solo movie. Emilia Clarke being in it can only help so much.

I saw Lawrence Krasden was the writer behind it. I checked out his stuff. Impressive actually, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars V and VI, Wyatt Earp, Silverado, Grand Canyon (a lesser known film, but something I saw that was good... not incredible but a good story). I'm thinking... okay, this sounds good. Then I see he wrote for The Force Awakens.

But JJ Abrams also wrote it... so there can be that as well. I see that the other writer for Solo is... his son. *Kiff sigh* Who hasn't written much. So now I'm nervous and seem to be likely to give this a theater pass as well, as my Star Wars - Star Trek theater protest continues.

I know these projects get crazy and just because a name is involved, doesn't mean they are responsible for a movie sucking.

 

[LordKiran]

So I was checking out who was behind this Solo movie. Emilia Clarke being in it can only help so much.

I saw Lawrence Krasden was the writer behind it. I checked out his stuff. Impressive actually, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars V and VI, Wyatt Earp, Silverado, Grand Canyon (a lesser known film, but something I saw that was good... not incredible but a good story). I'm thinking... okay, this sounds good. Then I see he wrote for The Force Awakens.

But JJ Abrams also wrote it... so there can be that as well. I see that the other writer for Solo is... his son. *Kiff sigh* Who hasn't written much. So now I'm nervous and seem to be likely to give this a theater pass as well, as my Star Wars - Star Trek theater protest continues.

I know these projects get crazy and just because a name is involved, doesn't mean they are responsible for a movie sucking.

I don't appreciate their need to shove everything from star wars into these new movies. I guess I don't know what I was expecting since Star Wars is now a part of the fast food production line of modern Hollywood films.

 

[repoman]

CinemaBlend is saying that they realize they made a mistake in not having Ansel Elgort as Han but having Alden instead:

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1674649/apparently-lucasfilm-is-unhappy-with-alden-ehrenreichs-han-solo-performance

Also the directing teams was fired and replaced by Ron Howard - who is very good in my opinion. They were too comedic, I guess?

 

[Underseer]

CinemaBlend is saying that they realize they made a mistake in not having Ansel Elgort as Han but having Alden instead:

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1674649/apparently-lucasfilm-is-unhappy-with-alden-ehrenreichs-han-solo-performance

Also the directing teams was fired and replaced by Ron Howard - who is very good in my opinion. They were too comedic, I guess?

But it stars a white male. Doesn't that automatically make it a good movie?

 

[braces_for_impact]

CinemaBlend is saying that they realize they made a mistake in not having Ansel Elgort as Han but having Alden instead:

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/16...y-with-alden-ehrenreichs-han-solo-performance

Also the directing teams was fired and replaced by Ron Howard - who is very good in my opinion. They were too comedic, I guess?

But it stars a white male. Doesn't that automatically make it a good movie?

I think you just happened upon a formula to save the USA. Make Han Solo black and trans, and every Trum humper's head will explode, the next vote is in the bag.

 

[repoman]

Harrison Ford had a Jewish mother and German-Irish Catholic father.

Also Alden Ehrenreich

The next time you’re kvetching about having to go to another bar or bat mitzvah, think about this: Steven Spielberg could be there, and he could make you a star.

That’s how it worked out for Alden Ehrenreich, who is reportedly finalizing negotiations to be the next Han Solo. Ehrenreich, who is Jewish, is set to star in “Star Wars: A New Hope,” a Disney film about Solo’s backstory. Harrison Ford, now 73, played the character in the original “Star Wars” movies, as well as the latest one.

Ehrenreich, 26, has been in numerous films, most recently playing a hick Cowboy & Western movie star in the Coen Brothers’ “Hail Caesar.”

Ehrenreich’s big Hollywood break came 12 years ago, when he made a movie screened at the ceremony of a friend’s bat mitzvah, according to the Daily Beast.

Although Ehrenreich later described the movie as “a piece of shit,” Spielberg, whose daughter Sasha was friends with the bat mitzvah girl, was in the synagogue — and was impressed.

“I’m this 14-year-old, skinny little kid with long hair,” Ehrenreich told Rolling Stone. “I break into her house, try on her clothes and make up a song. All of this is just us literally taking a camera and going like, ‘Okay, ha ha, do this.’ We showed it to our parents—‘We’re gonna play this at her bat mitzvah!’—and they were like, ‘You look like an idiot in this. I don’t think you should really do that.’ We didn’t care.”

As a result of the film, Spielberg invited Ehrenreich to meet with him at the DreamWorks studio and introduced him to filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him as the lead in the 2009 film “Tetro.” Ehrenreich’s performance in that movie spurred film critic Roger Ebert to dub him the “new Leonardo diCaprio.”

The new Han Solo film, announced in 2013, is scheduled to be released in May 2018.

In January, four other Jewish actors — Logan Lerman, Dave Franco, Ansel Elgort and Emory Cohen — made the short list of actors under consideration for the star role, according to a list published by Variety.