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Ron Howard to assume directorial duties on the untitled Han Solo film
StarWars.com ^ | July 22, 2017

Posted on 06/22/2017 8:41:28 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain

Lucasfilm is pleased to announce that Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard has been named director of the untitled Han Solo film.

“At Lucasfilm, we believe the highest goal of each film is to delight, carrying forward the spirit of the saga that George Lucas began forty years ago,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “With that in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that Ron Howard will step in to direct the untitled Han Solo film. We have a wonderful script, an incredible cast and crew, and the absolute commitment to make a great movie. Filming will resume the 10th of July.”

Howard has made some of the biggest hits and most critically-acclaimed movies of the modern era. Among his many films are Lucasfilm’s Willow, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind (winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director), The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon, and Rush. He also narrated and produced the beloved comedy series Arrested Development, starred in George Lucas’ American Graffiti, and remains a TV icon for his roles in The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days.

The untitled Han Solo film is slated for a May 25, 2018, release.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: movies; ronhoward; starwars
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Ron Howard directing a Star Wars movie. He should cast Jim Nabors as Corellian spaceship mechanic Gomor Peel.
1 posted on 06/22/2017 8:41:29 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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I could care less about Star Wars except for that really cute girl in the Toyota commercial for the last movie.


2 posted on 06/22/2017 8:47:37 AM PDT by rhubarbk (The Art of the Presidency -- Donald J Trump)
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The adults are finally running the show..................


3 posted on 06/22/2017 8:50:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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Several of his latest movies have been flops.


4 posted on 06/22/2017 8:50:57 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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He's on a bit of a losing streak, with Inferno and Heart of the Sea.

I tried watching Genius, his television production about Einstein, but it was awful. Opened with Einstein's pants around his ankles as he was banging his secretary in the office. Then flashed back to him whinging to his father that his family was abandoning him by moving away. The dialog was worthy of Tommy Wisseau's The Room. I was sort of hoping for some physics, being it was about Einstein and all that.

5 posted on 06/22/2017 8:56:56 AM PDT by dead
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Fonz Solo?


6 posted on 06/22/2017 9:00:38 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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Expect Darth Vader to be unmasked again.....looking like Trump....


7 posted on 06/22/2017 9:02:47 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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Jim Nabors would be a little stiff for that role.


8 posted on 06/22/2017 9:07:07 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Hack-proof tagline.)
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This actually sounds pretty cool!

Arrested Development was awesome.

Apollo 13 was awesome.

He’s got some amazing skills.


9 posted on 06/22/2017 9:07:22 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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“Heart of the Sea”

Color me odd - but I really like this movie.


10 posted on 06/22/2017 9:08:31 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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Potential for a lot of lawsuits
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/han-solo-firing-what-happens-star-wars-movie-1015658


11 posted on 06/22/2017 9:09:28 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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should cast Jim Nabors as spaceship mechanic Gomor Peel

Don't forget the horrifying threat to the entire universe, the giant all-devouring ANT BEES!!

12 posted on 06/22/2017 9:09:55 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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A Beautiful Mind - worst movie ever made. Made by Opie Cunningham.


13 posted on 06/22/2017 9:22:23 AM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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Or himself in a cameo as Opie wan Kenobi. I will leave now.


14 posted on 06/22/2017 9:24:55 AM PDT by xp38
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And watch him charge the Emperor...

Citizens arrest!
Citizens arrest!


15 posted on 06/22/2017 9:26:06 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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This Red Fife in attack position...


16 posted on 06/22/2017 9:27:04 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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Sounds like the whole production is going down in flames.


17 posted on 06/22/2017 9:29:51 AM PDT by dangerdoc (disgruntled)
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From now on whenever I hear "Star Wars" I'll think of Princess Lea dying at the age of 60 with cocaine and heroin in her system.

IOW...couldn't care less about Ronnie Howard *or* Star Wars.

18 posted on 06/22/2017 9:41:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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I didn’t see Heart of the Sea, so I have no opinion of it. I do know that it was a bomb though. Cost about $100 million to make and grossed about a quarter of that in the US.


19 posted on 06/22/2017 9:48:44 AM PDT by dead
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You left out the ecstasy in her system. The combination could launch anyone into space.


20 posted on 06/22/2017 9:48:57 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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