Posted on 03/23/2018 5:27:28 AM PDT by grundle
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”
Except that now Han Solo isn’t sporting his famous blaster in newly released character shot posters. The revamped posters have removed all of the weapons from the characters, leaving them to look a little… odd.
Clearly something is missing from the designs. They look very off.
Here’s Han Solo and friends with their weapons…
And without…
According to Movie Web, the change comes both after controversy surrounding alleged plagiarism by the freelance artist and controversy about gun control in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
"Alden Ehrenreich’s young Han Solo is seen in his reddish poster that shows the character in the same stance as the previous poster, but instead of aiming his iconic blaster, his right arm has been Photoshopped to be placed at his side."
"It looks a bit clumsy, and so do the rest of the posters that were doctored, especially when compared to the originals. The first Solo posters with the blasters intact made their debut before the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in the United States. But the altered ones came after. Though these are international posters, the news of the Florida shooting became a worldwide incident."
"It’s hard to tell if Disney is trying to appease both sides of the gun debate by having both versions of the now altered poster available, which should make everyone happy and not so happy at the same time. It pleases everyone and no one all at once, and is sending some mixed signals."
Disney or Lucasfilm has not confirmed why the change was made, and tying it to gun violence is pure speculation.
Meanwhile, Pirates of the Caribbean re-opened earlier this week featuring a gun-toting redhead peddling rum. The change was reportedly made to avoid association with human trafficking.
Of course not - which means they are still a bunch of hypocrites.
Now it looks like Solo’s expression is one of befuddlement. “Duh, tell me about the rabbits.”
Instead of eliminating them completely, perhaps they could replace the guns with flowers...
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side kids.
They have to use their fingers and say bang, bang.
So what are those things in Chewbacca’s bandolier? Chapstick?
It looks like a college costume party!
The black guy still gets to wear his gun. That’s racist, isn’t it?
;-)
Who shot first — was it Han or Greedo?
Obviously Greedo: Han doesn’t even have a gun.
Good. That will stop all these school shootings.
The movie E.T.......
In the movie, towards the end, cops were raising their guns at E.T.
When the movies was shown on tv the guns had been digitally altered so they were walkie talkies.
I think they may have even included those edits in for the video release.
What about his name? When are they going to remove that? Han Solo sounds a lot like “Hand solo” which suggests masturbation. I am offended, I am offended, boycott boycott, protest, protest.
Good to see that Mooch has moved on to a new career.
I was thinking he looks more like he dropped a deuce in his shorts...
Han Solo won’t be shooting Greedo or anyone else this time around. Pew Pew, you’re dead, Han.
Better cut the guns out of Indiana Jones as well. That’s Disney-Lucasfilms these days too.
Pictures of guns have killed more H.S. “students” than their classmates with AR-15s. ROTFL.
Without the gun, Han Solo has been reduced to a background character in his own solo movie.
The proud girl becomes the central figure. And she appears to be more in control than the befuddled Han Solo.
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