It seems like the directors wanted to go one way and Kathleen Kennedy and team didn't like that direction.Just saw this too...
So it seemed like a bad idea in the first place...now it seems like a dumpster fire.
They should pull the plug now instead of making something embarrassing.
It seems like the directors wanted to go one way and Kathleen Kennedy and team didn't like that direction.
They are keeping the same date too so apparently whoever they get to direct now will have to stick with what's already been done.Seems like a huge problem for me...if there was a semi decent story..."direction" is irrelevant.
They are keeping the same date too so apparently whoever they get to direct now will have to stick with what's already been done.
Given how good rogue one was I'd hate to see this film totally suck and make them shy away from standalone Star Wars films
No matter what directors they get in to do the films, ultimate vision will be what Lucasfilm wants and not the directors. That's what happened on Rogue one and resulted on a number of reshoots.
I wish they wouldn't even make this movie. I haven't liked the idea of them making a Han Solo movie from the beginning. Besides look at the awful photo in the link, it looks like a reboot of "Cheers". Nothing about it says "Star Wars" except for Chewie and even he looks like he doesn't want to be there.
I was just going to ask how this compares to what went on with Rogue One. I will say one thing I noticed a bit different was that in Rogue One, everything I saw said Disney made the changes, here it is the head of Lucasfilm. Is it just semantics (since Disney owns Lucasfilm), or were the reshoots for Rogue One demanded at a different level than this change?
I'm sure the Rouge One changes were probably from a combination of Disney/Lucasfilm, but because nobody left Kathleen/Lucas didn't need to come out and make an official statement. And if you remember the re-shoots were said to be "part of the normal movie making process" when they were happening and at the time it was only rumored that they were changing the story up. After the movie came out it was more or less confirmed.
The rumor is that Gareth Edwards (Rouge One) was more open to change his vision to what Disney/Lucasfilm had in mind. Whereas Phil Lord and Chris Miller were not.
Only three weeks left of shooting...probably $100 million+ already spent. No way Disney is going to scrap this.
Can only hope we'll have a Superman II situation on our hands where Donner shot the majority of the film, then was fired and Lester finished. That one came out pretty darn good. Maybe Disney will get lucky and have the same thing happened here.
I hope it's good because I'm a Star Wars fan. But like most Star Wars fan I question the necessity. Given the size of the universe, and the obvious expansion of the Universe Rogue 1 represented, why would you try and do the backstory on one of the most beloved characters? It's a gap that is so difficult to fill and even harder to satisfy people. Still... fingers crossed. I had to suffer through the prequels, first time since they hit theaters, with my kids over Christmas. They were every bit as awful as I remembered. Just really hoping we don't touch on that low point of story and crappy acting.