This is true for me as well.

The re-casting has never been an issue for me. I come from a theater background. I'm used to seeing different people play iconic roles. It's more that this just doesn't seem like a story I ever needed to have told to me.

But given the backlash and the true "underdog" nature of this, I'm totally pulling for it. I want this to be a great movie.

Where's the trailer?

None of the editors can make anything coherent out of it, hence three more weeks of reshoots.

I don't know why people address questions to Dane. He's been wrong about every single thing that he talks about.

You'll note that nobody is pointing questions to you as nobody gives a flying feces what you have to say.

That’s borderline incredible if it really is reshoots and not pick-ups.

I’m surprised Disney has give KK this kind of blank check given that only one of the films didn’t have major problems or alienate half the fan base.

For sure.

I wonder if it's Thandie Newton's character, as she has said many times that she wasn't involved in the reshoots and that 90% of her work was done with Lord & Miller? Maybe the "tone" of her character was "off" when compared to Ron Howard's vision?

All I know is that it's weird and they're spending a bundle to crack this nut.

I'm surprised, too. Unless Solo is a hit, she might not be long for Lucasfilm, especially considering all of the issues surrounding Alden Ehrenriech's portrayal of Han Solo and a Page One reshoot.

No offense to Stan (who I think is a great actor) but if you do that after the fan backlash of TLJ it would only get worse.

You can't piss off all the fans with making Luke a jaded asshole, then kill him off, then recast him and rewrite his past.

Just, no...

Disney's latest synopsis:

“Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy.

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.”

They don't have to rewrite his past.

There's plenty of adventure and do-gooder Luke tales to be told in the space between ROTJ and TFA.

Harrison Ford easily does the cool, sarcastic, tough but laid back, scoundrel but not totally bad guy. I envision the new guy doing a Han/Harrison Ford impression and it's going to come off douchey.

This has been picked up by all of the aggregate sites in the past 8 hours and to me, smells like Disney PR trying to get ahead of the game.

That is just too much.

It does tick off all the boxes, but is hardly believable.

It exposes the Disney PR spin by saying “people who didn’t like Episode VIII will like it because of all the ‘fan service’” when a lack of “fan service” was not why “older fans” didn’t like it. It sucked and was just a terribly boring and very stupid story.