Solo [Official Info] Ron Howard to Finish Han Solo film

His programming on National Geographic and History channels are also excellent, IMO

 

This is a decent, safer end choice, which I'm fine with. Howard is a solid director and at this point in time, you don't hire someone whose personal vision could butt beads again and lead to an even messier film. You need someone who am utmost professional who can take the direction, "We need the film done, we need it done on time, we need it done like this, and we need it done well" and go. I'm curious how much of Lord & Miller's work will remain, though. To my knowledge, in order for Howard to be credited as director and Lord & Miller to not be, 51% of the footage has to be shot by him. I wonder if the reshoots will be that significant.

My ridiculously high level of excitement for this movie has turned into extreme curiosity at how this is even going to turn out, but we'll see. They could still very well make a good film out of this, maybe even a great one if the script is as fantastic as we keep hearing. I doubt it'll be a dumpster fire; at worst it will be merely "olay," which would fine, but disappointing nonetheless.

 

"Careful Ron, that your personal vision does not interfere with orders from Kathleen Kennedy."

 

Ron knows what he's doing. I am OK with this development.

 

When it comes to choosing who could have taken over having Ron taking over makes sense.

He's well established and a name that people know and would be interested in seeing what he would bring to a Star Wars film (although I had admitedly never considered him before until this).

He's a friend of Lucas having worked with him as far back as American Graffitti and then Willow and worked with Kasdan and Kennedy so they already have a working relationship and friendship that would be easier to establish then new younger guys who as much as they want to put their stamp on it and yeah you can allow for that sometimes they get caught up on putting too much of themselves in the film without keeping to the rules of what they are working with to some degree.

Basically there's only so much you can do before you start to make something that doesn't fit the tone of this universe and this improvisation fast comedy maybe could work in small doses and certainly for their own films but for it to frequently take over in place of the script and story then there's an issue there especially since it might not fit and feel for lack of a better term alienating to this world. I know someone who said the comedy in TFA felt like that at times and was out of place in moments but I didn't entirely have a problem because they kept it in small doses and kept to the script most of the time. You're working with a studio and there will be compromises and while we often blame studios for coming in and making problems sometimes that has to be done. You can't let them go too far in and destroy everything but at the same time they are the ones who will be distributing this product and they and the director will need to operate on the same page for the most part.

When it came to the other choices Kasdan as much as it would have made sense to me given he was there and was the one being the most vocal about these issues and being there already he doesn't have to be caught up to speed with what's been going on but Ron has been around long enough he'll catch on quick but people have said the DGA might have prevented that so it's understanding why he couldn't take over.

Joe Johnston again would have made sense for the same reasons as Ron but he's recently been hired to do the next Narnia so that could have meant delaying that film again which I imagine they wouldn't have wanted.

Now it's just a matter of how much the changes will be noticeable? Some movies have hid it so well to where you didn't think that they were either helmed by two different people or there were obvious changes later in the film.

With Rogue One I knew about the changes and while you can see it once you know about it they still don't entirely distract you at least they didn't for me. Compared to something like Suicide Squad where the changes were pretty clear to anyone who didn't even read up on the internet and for Batman VS. Superman too. I guess we'll have to wait and see in regards to Justice League.

Even Marvel at times has suffered this with Thor the Dark World looking like they cleary cut some stuff and they've been open about that and also Age of Ultron fighting to keep the Hawkeye family farm scenes so they had to cut down Thor searching for the truth about the Infinity Stones.

And that's just the MCU. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 also suffered from cutting stuff down and over marketing. And I'm sure everyone is aware of the Fan4stic debacle with previous let go Anthology director Josh Trank but if you're not just read up because that's hard to cut down in terms of explaining what went wrong.

So it'll all depend on whether you can pin point Lord and Miller's style compared to Ron's in certain scenes? Considering the supposed frequent improvisation will they cut those moments if they are unnecessary and just reshoot with what was written while keeping the stuff from when they stuck to the script and then whatever stuff they hadn't done yet Ron can do from scratch.

Who's to say at this point. Just a matter of getting things back on track and finishing it first.

 

http://ew.com/movies/2017/06/22/ron-howard-takes-over-directing-duties-on-han-solo-film/

That makes me feel even better. I wondered how much of their penchant for comedy was going to play into the film. If it's true that they wanted to make a comedy out of the movie, I am glad that KK had the guts to cut ties with them this far in.

 

As long as this development isn't arrested, I think it's safe to say that happy days are ahead for the Han Solo flick.

 

Safe choice, he's made movies in a variety of genres.

I'd still like to see Joe Johnston direct a Star Wars movie (and am bummed Marvel never let him do a proper Winter Soldier movie closer to the source material...but perhaps I'll get over that when he gets his next gig at Disney).

 

I wonder if this means we'll have a Hans Zimmer Star Wars score.

 

Apollo 13 is one of my favourite movies of all time. And he's directed a few fair other memorable films too (even if his most recent works aren't quite up to the same standard). If the Han Solo script is as awesome as hinted at, then we should get a really good movie. Howard is more than capable of getting good performances out of actors and directing good action set pieces, the alleged failings of the previous directors.

 

I just read about this story in the paper. This was far and away the safest pick. He's the right man to fix this dilemma. I think Howard will make a splash. He's got a beautiful mind and he's really gung ho about the project. After taking over for Lord and Miller there was some perception that there would be some backdraft and that Howard would be looked at as the Grinch that stole Christmas but he insists that being asked to work on a Star Wars movie is a real rush.

Reached for comment Howard said, "I've survived parenthood so this will be a breeze". Asked what we can expect from his his take on Han Solo Howard confirmed his film will have, "angels and demons, grand theft auto, ransom, old paint, cotton candy, cards, cads, guns, gore and death. Oh and Edtv.". Coming in late he'll likely have to work the night shift. When he's done he'll probably be so tired he'll curl up into a cocoon and when we see him next at the premier he'll have transformed into a Cinderella man.

 

How long did that take you to come up with all those cliches?
Very funny BTW

 

Three weeks to go and this happened. Weren't directors supposed to have freedom? How much freedom did Rian Johnson truly have?

I trust Kathleen Kennedy to make the right call. Rogue One had reshoots but is spectacular.

 

Lord and Miller are obviously comedy Directors and I don't know if that will jive in a Star Wars movie and was probably why they were let go that and changing the script to much, I don't mind a little Improvisation like When Harrison said to Leia: I know. but I don't think in the OT Improv happened all that much. from what it sounds like Lord and Miller did this through out the film and compromised the integrity of the film. that really ticks me off.

I love the Ron Howard signing my entire family are all huge fans!

 

Um, what Pym said.

 

Eh, I'm not excited by this choice. He's competent, but I find his work to be safe and plain. Which is why I'm not surprised by the choice.

To his credit though I do think that he will put his best creative effort into the project. And getting a filmmaker of his reputation probably means that they aren't planning on just doing a sloppy salvage job with the film. (eta: to clarify, I do think it's a good idea in this situation to bring on someone with his level of experience and his connections to Lucasfilm, I'm just not a huge Howard fan.)

 

Ha. Well I just took everything from his IMDB page but it took longer than I'd like to admit.

 

Fantastic news

 

I'm hoping Howard uses John Williams score for the title sequence at the very least. Having the off-brand sorta but not really Star Wars music in Rogue One was jarring and deflating.

 

It's called the "Eastwood Rule", because Clint Eastwood fired the director and took over the role himself while filming The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Insert your own ironic comment about the Man With No Name affecting the production of a Han Solo movie here.

I should note that Lucas hired Ron Howard to direct this film precisely because it was a watered-down, PG version of the R-rated fantasy film he'd originally cooked up with French artist Jean Giraud/Moebius.

 

Star Wars is a rich universe of infinite possibilities with a strong brand to help realize them! So we're not gonna do anything because that brand is (apparently) so fragile that anything that steps outside the comfort zone is gonna get ****ed harder than life itself.

Big franchise film making, the place where you can go kiss the business end of a shotgun when it comes to actually doing anything remotely interesting with an established universe.

 

There are ways of getting around the DGA. Just ask Spielberg and Tobe Hooper.


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I wonder if this means Howard will get official credit for directing the film? I only bring this up because I have no memories at all of Tony Gilroy getting a big announcement for helming the reshoots of Rogue One on the official Star Wars website. If the plan is to put Howard's name at the directing slot, then I fully expect the reshoots to be massive in order for Howard to qualify for the credit slot under DGA rules.

As an aside, I'm still reeling from that May 2018 release date. I'm actually hoping that KK decides to push that date back to December 2018.

 

Gilroy received no official credit but did earn a whopping $5 million for rewrites, overseeing reshoots and total supervision over the edit and post. Edwards was at his side during reshoots and editing. Parts of the beginning, the Vader scene and the ending were written, shot and edited under Gilroy's post production supervision. I imagine much can be shot in a couple of months. Perhaps even over 50%. I think Gilroy's work was roughly 40%. Maybe more.


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