Posted on 02/05/2018 6:36:03 AM PST by C19fan
Since Disney has taken ownership of Lucasfilm, the studio hasn’t used the Super Bowl as a launch pad for Star Wars movies. Until today. Taking everyone by surprise without any forewarning, Disney dropped a teaser for its Memorial Day opener spinoff Solo: A Star Wars Story directed by Ron Howard. Consider this a tease to the teaser trailer which officially blasts off tomorrow during Good Morning America. There was an assumption among fanboys that Disney would drop this during the Winter Olympics, but here it is, the first 38 seconds of Solo.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
The first Star Wars movie is largely a re-imagining of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. In the original Japanese movie, a strong-willed princess is guided across enemy lines to safety after her forces are defeated. She is accompanied by two bumbling comedy relief thieves and a cynical, but highly capable Samurai. The cynical Samurai became cynical smuggler Han Solo in Star Wars. Luke is the character that was added.
Loveable rogue.
Indiana Jones was not much of a departure
Considering they fired the very good directors of “the Lego Movie” five months into production I’m expecting this to be a very safe Star Wars film. In other words, no “when Han met Chewie,” no sabacc game to win the Millennium Falcon from Lando and no general scoundreling. Sounds like a movie Han Solo would hate.
Agreed, Hollywood has jumped the shark, crossed the Rubicon. Political Correctness and politically infused programming, social justice issues... I can’t watch any of it. Not that it bothers me, there is a big world out there of other stuff for me to do.
No ... they're one-upping it. Bad casting (at least in the role of Solo), and a musical score with limited input from John Williams.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
And boy was it ever a screw up.
Sometimes I think that they ran out of good ideas after the Empire Strikes Back. I think that the producers have a multi-decade bet that no matter how one dimensional the story, no matter how paper thin the characters, no matter how non-sensical, and illogical and inconsistent their motivations, no matter how patently absurd the muppets become, no matter how weak the story line, and uncompelling the characters, no matter how blatantly in your face the liberal SJW messaging, no matter how many blatant violations of physics, or economics, no matter how many evil empires with seemingly inexhaustible resources can build moon and planet size space stations that can destroy entire solar systems, but be destroyed with something smaller than a womprat, no matter all that, these executives must have a bet that people will still show up in droves no matter what, which is why each movie seems to become progressively worse than the one before.
White privilege.
We could not be more opposite in opinions. The sequence you so pithily describe is standard myth. Space cowboys are cliché and extraneous except-perhaps- as supporting comedy. Never liked Ford, loathe the Solo character. No interest in his past or the future of his ugly spawn.
Ron Howard is directing. He played Opie on the “Andy Griffith” show.
What he should do is have Han Solo and Chewbacca carrying fishing poles down to the lake and Han throwing a rock into the lake..... : )
In a universe with trillions of sentient beings, theirs is an intergalactic tale of scarcely 2 dozen players.
the lead actor is so bad they actually have to have an acting teacher on set to teach acting. This is not han solo.
speilberg found the lead to han solo.
Box office success equals no liberals + no sjw.
Doesn’t matter who found him ... lame choice.
At this point, what is there to fix? Solo is destined to be a loser who gives up on his family and goes back to the crappy work he did in his younger years, only as an older man. Why should I care about a loser’s past? Disney is a big monopoly that doesn’t care about quality. They pretty much remake things to claim it as their own, I also don’t care for how monotonously saturated the movie theaters are with superhero and Star Wars movies. It’s boring me out. Just wait when the big Disney Monopoly buys out Warner Brothers so that movies like Dunkirk will get remakes...
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