Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
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Miguex
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Donald Glover rumor seems to have legs, I've heard it from all directions this week...from my incredibly tenuous and slight inroads to people who might actually know...something? But really nobody else has even been named. I'm a gigantic Community fan, and I can totally see him killing it once I get past the initial "not sure" 5 seconds.
Royal
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You're not.
I don't need a Han Solo origins story set to film. I don't want one. I don't want to have to struggle to get past seeing a different face and voice and mannerisms attached to a character that has been played by one guy for almost 40 years. I'll be there money in hand when it opens of course but I'm not so sure that I will be able to be particularly forgiving of any shortcomings it will have, like all movies do.
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That is the era I wish they would explore. Not necessarily setting it up immediately for trilogies. I don't think that is their plan for the side stories. But they could certainly start laying the groundwork for future trilogies and guaging the broader fan appeal for movies set in that time period. I think they're still hesitant at this point to stray too far from the original trilogy material and that's understandable. They need to get the franchise firmly replanted in the viewing public's goodwill before they go into an area that only the ardent fans have any point of reference for.
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I have the same opinion of a potential Boba Fett movie that I do of a Han Solo one. I think he is a character that benefits from a relatively mysterious past even more than Han does. Having a movie centered around an antagonist is too much outside of the scope of what we normally associate with Star Wars. Associate positively at any rate.
I'll go ahead and add younger Yoda to the list of movies I'd rather they not make while we're at it.
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radditsu
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Han Solo Movie? Nah. His character is way too set in stone. He is too well defined. It would be boring, we KNOW he would turn around the Falcon to save someone. We KNOW he is a hard luck scoundrel who can't get ahead.
A Lando Calrissian movie? Fuck yeah. Make a Lando Movie with a slight Han cameo and it would actually have some legs. The only thing we really know about Lando is that he lost the Falcon to Han and he kinda sorta owns a mining station on a gas giant.
A Lando Calrissian movie? Fuck yeah. Make a Lando Movie with a slight Han cameo and it would actually have some legs. The only thing we really know about Lando is that he lost the Falcon to Han and he kinda sorta owns a mining station on a gas giant.
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Lando has been in the Rebels tv show a few times. It's set couple of years before ANH and Lando is shown as still being a smuggler. So whatever happen to get him in charge of Bespin happened in a relatively short time.
They did the right thing with Rogue One. A movie based on new characters with cameos of things we already know. Han Solo movie should be an Imperial Academy movie to get the audience to empathize with the people caught up with the Empire. Han can have a cameo as helping them escape or something. He shouldn't be the focus.
They did the right thing with Rogue One. A movie based on new characters with cameos of things we already know. Han Solo movie should be an Imperial Academy movie to get the audience to empathize with the people caught up with the Empire. Han can have a cameo as helping them escape or something. He shouldn't be the focus.