HAN SOLO Directors Fired For Too Much Humor

What a twist.

>Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the style and vision of Lord and Miller clashed with that of Lawrence Kasdan, the legendary screenwriter behind the classics "Empire Strikes Back" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", who also wrote, with his son, Jon Kasdan, the script for the Han Solo standalone set (for now) to be released in 2018.

>Lord and Miller ("21 Jump Street", "The Lego Movie") have a comedic sensibility and improvisational style while Kasdan favors a strict adherence to the written word – what is on the page is what must be shot.

>The creative clash, accordidng to one insider, came down to differences in understanding the character of Han Solo. “People need to understand that Han Solo is not a comedic personality. He’s sarcastic and selfish,” said that source.

>The friction was felt almost immediately when the movie began shooting in February, sources say, but the directors always thought it could be worked through. Kennedy, the producer and head of Lucasfilm, decided to back her lifelong colleague, who shaped much of Solo’s character in "Empire" and "Return of the Jedi" and who had a specific tone in mind for the new movie. The duo also didn’t feel they had the support of producer Allison Shearmur, who was acting as Lucasfilm’s representative on the London set.

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Is this real?

Bless you, Lawrence Kasdan.

We need less "le quirky randumb XD" main characters.

>"The Lego Movie"
They need to hang.

Harrison Ford doesnt want this film. Respect his wishes (((Disney)))

Maybe this will clue in Disney that their spinoff idea is shit.

>Disney missing out on billions in merchandise

Yeah nah.

>hire well known comedic-duo
>fire them because of their comedy

Brilliant. Bravo Lucasfilm.

Too bad Lord and Miller didn't realize how shitty their movie was going to be before they started production.

It's not like Disney can cram this shit back up into their asshole, it's half way out.

Literally no one wants to see this movie, and its existence annoys me simply because they could have made literally any other movie in the Star Wars universe.

They could have made an Obi-Wan movie, a bounty hunter movie, literally anything else. Who gives a shit about a young Han Solo?

Right what did they think they were getting?

Name recognition

Well, there goes the possibility of L&M working for Disney again anytime soon.

Left The Flash movie; kicked out of Han Solo; the MIB+Jump Street idea probably scared them away. Among major studios, that leaves Fox (who's taken care of them, at least on the TV side of things) and Paramount (kind of hit-and-miss lately) who they might like to work with.

Sorry Lord and Miller, no personality in this movie is allowed. Only generic Disney blockbusters are what plebs want.

If they aren't willing to bend to the studio then they need to quit signing on to blockbuster franchises.

Enjoy your bland female main characters instead.

They probably bailed because they knew it was going to be crap and didn't want their names on it

>hire comedy directors
>get mad when they do comedy
>wait until they are three weeks from finishing filming to get mad enough to fire them
Wow, really just a genius decision making process

>left The Flash movie
Not for long boys
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One Star Wars controversy after another.

Did George put a curse on Lucasfilm or something?

No, he just sold it to Disney, which is essentially the same thing.

This movie should never have existed in the first place, but I was excited because they haven't made a bad movie yet.

Now I've officially lost all interest.

Wouldn't it be great if the movie ends up as some kind of futuristic neo-noire movie? Although if that were the case literally EVERYONE would be comparing it to Bladerunner.

Thank fuck they were canned. Another omigod so quirky reddit pop culture reference movie would give me the shits

yes please they suit the flash so much better anyway

>Lawrence Kasdan, the legendary screenwriter behind the classics "Empire Strikes Back"

That's not how you spell Leigh Brackett.

Why were they hired in the first place? Their kind of filmmaking has nothing in common with that of the Star Wars franchise.

They were never hired for the Flash movie as directors. They just wrote a script for it.
Ironically they might direct Flash now, since that needs a director and they would be perfect in tone and skill.

I hope it showcases the Hutt crime world and its clashes with the Empire with Han stuck in the middle of it, but Disney probably isn't going to show that much creativity any time soon.

Because quips and jokes, user. It's their specialty.

Can you imagine how reddit your script must be if it breaks Disney's quip-o-meter?

based
kasdan actually made the pretty good neo-noir called body heat, which has tons of sleaze and unlikable characters. glad seeing he's still got it.

Hutts be Empire would be as undercooked as the black guy's terrorists in Rogue One.

Then again he did help write TFA.

He sacked two guys who were in the process of improving all his son's contributions, that tells us nothing about what he's still got other than power.

This seals it: all of the new SW movies will be good but not great in the matter of TFA and Rogue One. This is really sad. I don't even care if they make an Obi-Wan movie, now.

Harrison Ford is a grumpy ungrateful asshole with Alzheimer's. He was also never a good actor

They got mad when Rogue One was done in spirit of a "war movie" until reshoots demanded more Bazinga bot

lol fuck off. if he didn't speak up we'd get a star lord han solo, which would fucking suck

What does he care? He wanted to stay dead since Empire.

>It's not like Disney can cram this shit back up into their asshole, it's half way out.

They can reshoot it. It's been done before - there's 2 different Exorcist prequels because of a similar situation. There's also the Superman II example where they kept some of the original stuff and reshot the rest.

What? You think this movie originates with them in any sense? There are no auteurs on the Disney Star Wars movies, user. It's producer-led from soup to nuts.