As I said, it wouldn't fit in the timeline. He's supposed to have done that briefly before ANH, hence Jabba demanding he pay him back during the movie.

It doesn't matter if the movie is based off of a few lines from the OT. If it's done well, it will be extremely enjoyable.

I hadn't thought of the Jabba aspect but it makes more sense for Han to be an ally of Jabba's in this film, rather than someone that's drawn his ire. Of course, this likely means more Tatooine (blech) but as long as it's entertaining, I'm good with it.

I don't expect this film to be dark, whatsoever. It should be uplifting, witty, fun and basically, the opposite of Rogue One.

Han generally lightens the mood wherever he goes( sans getting killed by emo-puke in VII ), so I fully expect this movie to be very adventurous and gregarious.

Good time Han is back.

I actually don't think there's going to be any room for Tatooine, or if there is it will be very minor and tacked on at the end. They could actually EASILY replace it with Nal Hutta or Nar Shaddaa.

If the film follows my plot, here are the potential locations we'll visit:

Carida/Imperial Academy
Kashyyyk/Imperial Prison World
Corellia/Coruscant/Wherever the gambling takes place
Kessel/Formos (this is supposed to be the start/finish of the Kessel run)

Then if you really want to have a scene at the end with Jabba, you can put it on Nal Hutta or Nar Shadaa, which have been locations we've only seen in comics and video games.

Or hell, Jabba has a starship. Put him on that.

Oh hell, this would be fun.

Greedo be in it?

We could also get some much-needed back-story on Jabba's wife...

https://static.comicvine.com/uploads...a_the_hutt.jpg

LMAO

That looks like a certain someone to me...

Too short to be Vader.

The helmet shape and cape look correct but the angle is weird.

Also, if that's a Death Trooper, he's taller than Vader.

The helmet actually doesn't look correct at all. The bottom part is all slanty.

That's not Vader.

It looks more like one of these helmets, but it's not quite the same. Guessing that's completely new kind of trooper/imperial.

http://www.starwarshelmets.com/2009/...-guard-006.jpg

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What I've found interesting is that since Ron Howard has taken over the Director's chair and shown what, a dozen or more pics from the set, not one has included Alden Ehrenreich.

:hmmm:

Anteresting...

https://68.media.tumblr.com/3a757e0a...oAh1sm44gt.jpg

Ron Howard is fun.

Perfect guy to direct this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLea...n_solo_teaser/

Not much, but here’s a rundown of what l caught a glimpse of. There’s more obviously but this was the big stuff.

Han walking, angle only shows his holstered blaster
Wookiees getting transferred somewhere. Planet looked new, never seen it before
Shot from behind of Han approaching a large crowd surrounding a table or something
Close up of Han’s dice
There’s like one shot of Woody’s character, but it was in a dark alley area and he looked paranoid
Han doing his “Yehoo!” yell and the Falcon going through light speed
Chewbacca roaring and running next to Han
Somebody says “it’s not worth the risk”, pretty sure Lando says it
There is a cut-to-black and somebody says “l’ll make him pay” and there’s a huge long rifle on a table with some armor piece next to it
Didn’t see much of GoT chick’s character. There’s a “This Summer” title card that shows right after a glimpse of a handful of stormtroopers walking down an alley.

BOBA ****ING FETT

Paul Bettany has said that Solo is a gangster movie

**** yes. Solo, space gangsta, spraying bitches with his laser gat. This has given me hope for something unique and new.

We're almost certain to see the Kessel Run right? All in agreement here?

With all the reshoots and how little we've heard about Han, I'm beginning to think the movie title is a pun, and Lando will be the star that does whatever it is that gets done in this movie... solo. And yes, we will see the Kessel run.

ALL IN.

The entire film was a Page One Re-shoot and scenes were added that weren't in the original script

Oh god I hope they went with a more rouge one type story that's compelling

Larry Lasdan wrote the script and additional scenes were added after viewing Ron Howard’s dailies.

That's good, right?

Kasdan knows the Han Solo character better than anyone and I talked to a Lucasfilm employee yesterday that said Ron Howard was amazing and really brought out great performances.

I haven’t heard confirmation about the exact additions but the additional scenes are said to be like the additions to Rogue One.

http://www.screengeek.net/2017/12/24...p...y-to-bomb/

I don’t know if this is reputable or not. I do have concerns that they fired the original director and brought Howard into save it. Also, it’s extremely hard to recreate an iconic character like that. I 100% hope they nail it.


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Link doesn’t work.

I think it is just a general media freak out. There has been no trailer or marketing yet...just a poster with the word SOLO on it.

With nothing out there, folks imaginations are running wild.....

The ship made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs according to ANH, do we have any confirmation of the pilot? Maybe it was Lando and not Han?

There is absolutely no new information in that article. I laid out the entire scenario back in late June/early July and nothing has changed, other than additional scenes and TLJ’s reactions.

It might be wise for Lucasfilm to start tempering their expectations based on the reaction to TLJ. Rogue One seems to have blown them way out of propoertion.

Solo could have the best story, direction and VFX of any Star Wars film ever but if Alden Ehrenreich sucks, the film will crash and burn.

It’s also worth pointing out that there was a lot of this type of speculation/rumors about Rogue One’s reshoots - and I think most will agree that those turned out okay.

Really, we won’t know how it all turns out until we see Howard’s vision on the big screen.

Lando playing Sabacc.

https://i.redd.it/y0kiwnvdjb601.jpg

Empire sneak peek. White/blue Falcon?

https://i.imgur.com/JevG0g4.jpg

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

Can't wait to see the principles of that game finally committed to film.

First I had seen of it.

Yeah, that’s my concern with this one. I just don’t see Ehrenreich capturing the character, and if that doesn’t happen they are ****ed regardless. I hope I’m wrong. Because there has been no teaser and we are 5 months away I’m concerned lol


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I'm not the least excited for this and don't plan on watching it.

As I said in the other thread the only "prequel" idea I actually like would be a McGregor/Kenobi film. I may be in the minority but I like Han's origins being a mystery...

There’s no teaser trailer because filming didn’t end until late September and one pass hasn’t been completed yet.

A trailer won’t be released until there’s a solid rough edit completed because if they hand over footage to be cut into a trailer and some of that footage doesn’t appear in the film (ala Rogue One) they’ll face a backlash, which is something they don’t need at this point.

In addition, Lucasfilm only promotes one Star Wars film at a time. Rogue One had no trailer at this time in 2016 because the focus was still on TFA. There was no TLJ trailer at this time last year because the focus was R1.

I would expect the Solo marketing push to begin mid-January once the TLJ has run its course in theatres...the marketing needs to start earlier than R1 or TLJ due to the May release date.

Any chance it gets pushed to December 2018?

The fact that Shrike has made it in to this movie tells me that many people, though working for Disney as well as LFL, have spent a GREAT deal of time in the old EU, and are bringing much material from that source to the new mission.

Excellent.

Should I read Paradise Snare before I see this movie?

Not really necessary, but a great trilogy.

Yup.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJ36GdEX0AEkvNu.jpg:large

https://i.redd.it/mf5uo4zqkr601.png

https://media.tmz.com/2017/07/07/070...1080x608-1.jpg

I suppose it’s possible but Disney has Mary Poppins Returns set for Christmas Day 2018 so it would likely need to be moved.

Wreck It Ralph 2is set for late November so there’s not much room for all three.

Powell is amazing. This might actually have a better score than TFA or TLJ.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/john-william...r-w-1821668767

Also, there's an interesting note in the casting page. The film features "mud troopers."

Teaser dropping 1/7 during halftime of one of the wildcard games.

I can't wait to hear how what we thought was wrong.

He was completely different.

Which will add nothing to anything and just further ruin what we loved once...

This is all the internet has become - grown men whining about petty crap.

Spoiler: His life sucks and his emo son kills him.

Now I know how people feel about me and Alex Smith....

Jesus.

LMAO

They have a chance to spark off a series of sequels if they can make a Han Solo or Obi Wan Kenobi movie that's as good as Rogue One. Wouldn't take much to blow away the new main story line trilogy.

yep.

You don't like the story line in the new trilogy? Why not?

1. Han and Leia are divorced after having a child that emulates Darth Vader.
2. Luke Skywalker is all alone and blames himself after said child kills all of his new Jedi.
3. Said child kills Han Solo
4. Said child kills the "New" Emperor and takes his place
5. Luke Skywalker essentially commits suicide protecting 20 people left from the New Republic and Rebellion/Resistance, including his sister (who dies shortly thereafter).


What's not to like?

The story itself doesn't bother me, even though I don't find it all that interesting. I just don't think the two movies are all that great. I was OK with TFA, but TLJ should have blown us all away. It didn't. Instead I think it pales in comparison to Rogue One. TLJ didn't hold my attention when I watched it.

What The Last Jedi tells us is that our heroes lives are inconsequential.

Luke blowing up the Death Star with Han's help was inconsequential.

Luke saving his father, which lead to the destruction of the second Death Star and death of the Emperor and Sith was inconsequential.

No matter how much "Good" someone does with their life, evil will always prevail and destroy lives.

This also tells us that whatever Finn, Rose, Poe and Rey do in their lives is also inconsequential.

So, what's the point?

sounds pretty damned interesting. Better than the "they lived happily ever after" ending and the sequels are hours and hours of watching Han and Chewy play corn-hole while Leia fetches beer from the cooler.

Other than restoring peace to the galaxy for years, you mean?

Inconsequential? Except that the empire didn't have a death star to go around terrorizing planets for a few years and had to start completely over. You could have said this in response to Return of the Jedi too. Stamping out one threat doesn't mean that all threats go away.

Same response as above... the empire lost another powerful weapon, and their leadership, which lead to peace in the galaxy for years thereafter. How is that inconsequential? Evil always rises up - even in the real world. This is not an unusual concept. You depose one evil dictator and another one steps up to fill in the void.

Evil doesn't always prevail - in real life nor in Star Wars (see destruction of death star 1, destruction of death star 2, destruction of star killer base, destruction of dreadnought, etc. etc...)

Because they will never be able to completely eradicate evil? Seriously?

"Darkness rises, and the light to meet it". It's been that way since the dawn of time and will always be that way. No matter how strong and powerful our heroes are on the screen or in real life. And even in knowing that truth... heroes still stand against that evil - it's actually a pretty damned inspiring message.

I think that's the point.

When?

So the remnants of the Empire built an even bigger planet killer.

Dumb

Evil prevails in the Star Wars galaxy

The First Order just destroyed several planets and all that's left of the Resistance is about 20 people.

What the **** are you watching?

The "point" is that the heroes of the original Star Wars Trilogy are inconsequential and failures at life.

Failed parents, failed marriages, failed to stop further evil.

Fail, Fail, Epic Fail.

Thanks to Luke and his friends the galaxy was saved and they had 30 years of peace.

The First Order attempted a return to tyranny once again, and briefly succeeded by winning a few battles, but thanks to our original heroes, some new friends and a last-minute change of heart from Ben Solo, it will be destroyed from within!

What a great story of family legacy and good triumphing over evil! The Republic will be restored!

Maybe that's why it was such a big "meh" for me. I don't know. I haven't thought about it a lot because the movie had barely any effect on me. I guess you could say that I'm jaded or disinterested, but I've seen a lot of stuff lately that was downright gripping. I mean, hell, I was more into the Wonder Woman movie than this. Not what I expected.

The period between ROTJ and TFA

Yes. That's what you do... when you fail, you try.. try again. Applies to evil empires too.

Tapout acknowledged

Evil exists, yes. And sometimes the good guys win and sometimes the bad guys win. Pretty freakin' boring trilogy if Han, Luke and Leia had stamped out all evil in the universe for all time, don't you think?

Yes, things are dire right now. Sure hope some new heroes step up to continue the good fight and honor the legacy of the heroes that had come before!

yeah... life is hard, marriage is hard, parenting is freakin' hard, stopping all further evil is impossible. The Star Wars universe you want is all rainbows and butterflies.

The presentation of it along the way wasn't amazing, more so the second one in my opinion. The new characters brought up along the way don't have a ton of depth. I'm pretty neutral about the second movie overall, and went in with an open mind to both, but I just haven't been too engaged by these new characters.

It would have been cool if... (spoilers)



I don't know. It just wasn't an engaging movie. I feel like they could have done better.

:facepalm:

Of course, I'm arguing with an Alexsexual, which is my bad...

When Episode IX ends, does anyone truly believe that people will be clamoring to see Rey, Poe, Finn, Rose and Kylo Ren after a 32 year absence on the big screen?

I don't think so.

I win.

They didn't have the opportunity to fully develop the new characters, because they crammed the OT in there as well.

Finn and Rose really shouldn't be in the films. If Poe Dameron had started out as a TIE pilot or something he could have been a really interesting character. I actually like his arc in TLJ quite a bit.

Finn and Poe should have been one character.

Too many characters competing for screen time.

Again, I think these movies are being held up to unrealistic expectations. When the OT came out, there was nothing, and had been nothing like it in the history of cinema. You are never going to capture that again.

Solid take.

Disney had to scale Mt. Everest if they wanted to use the original characters AND introduce new ones and do them credit.

It's not perfect, but we got a far more creative effort than what was put out with Star Trek. Talk about a rehash...

I agree.

Sure there was. Lucas acknowledged the heavy influence of The Hidden Fortress for an obvious one. We have been telling the same stories to each other for thousands of years. This just wasn't a very good job of it.

You don't win shit, dumbass

No, they're not.

You're just not very bright.

Yes, you the far superior intellect resorting to petty insults in a discussion on our opinions of a science fiction movie. Just put me on ignore if you are not mature enough for conversation.

There hadn't been anything like star wars before star wars. Science fiction movies were trash and mostly laughable. Star Wars set a new insanely high bar for scifi. Yes some of the story themes were familiar, but the universe was unlike anything else.