Star Wars Thread (a Galaxy Far Far Away) Obi-Wan Movie In The Works! (36)

Ron Howard has been hired to replace Lego Dudes.

http://screenrant.com/han-solo-movie-director-ron-howard/

I get firing the Lego Dudes if they were shooting it in the same style as 21 Jump Street. But why this late in the game? Didn't the dailies show that they were lingering on someone's reaction a little too long or weird close ups of something for comedic effect? I mean, is Glover's portrayal of Lando coming off as Troy Barnes imitating Lando?

 

Ron Howard is fine, but..boring? Can easily see why he was brought on, stable established guy, will follow orders. Not thrilled that Disney is running Star Wars so similar to Marvel, here's hoping at least Rian Johnson was allowed to get a little weird with Episode 8. Empire Strikes back is weird and different compared to New Hope, and that's a great thing, it was not safe in its time.

 

Ron Howard changes the narrative that's why he was brought on.

He's got clout, he's got the track record, and he's obviously a talented guy. I think it's basically the only move that they had out there if they were releasing the other two.

I'm with Savory though it shouldn't have taken this long to get it.

 

Good read on the situation, I definitely want Han Solo to be Han Solo, not zany.

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/201...ing-about-the-star-wars-han-solo-shakeup.html

 

Uh, it's one of the most trusted SW news sites out there if not the most, Collider Jedi Council references it weekly. But I mean you don't have to trust the source, it's an article I shared that I thought was good and pretty on top of the situation.

 

This makes a lot of sense actually. I could see the thing getting a little out of control. Like when you're hanging out with your buddies and the jokes keep getting more and more absurd, but you're laughing harder and harder. Seems like the movie just got away from the Lego Dudes. I do NOT want a "zany" Han Solo movie either. It has to be a little somber because now we know how Han Solo's story ends. You can't make it a screwball comedy now that we know that the dude ends his life estranged from his wife and with his son (a mass murdering psychopath) killing him in a moment when Han thinks he's going to get a hug from him. They said there were problems with the action set pieces. I'm picturing the parts in Attack of the Clones where R2D2 and C3PO are going through the droid factory.

Still, someone should have seen how this was going earlier. How are they just now watching the thing with some of the scenes cut together? I wonder how much of it will be reshot? That story made it sound like they are going to reshoot a ton of it. If that's the case, I hope they push it back to December (or November like the article suggested).

 

Yeah. They aren't right 100% of the time, but they are probably the best Star Wars news and rumors site on the internet. They have gotten waaaay to many stories right for them not to have deep connections at Lucasfilm.

 

Is it too late to film this really quick and have it replace the Han Solo movie?

 

This news has to come to the surprise of no one. Also, Evan has to be involved. He's said he wants to do it, he's the right age, and he played Obi-Wan for as many movies as Guinness. He is as much Obi-Wan as anyone else to me. This is also a movie I'd want to see more than Han Solo, because Ford IS that character. It can't be an Obi-Wan movie though, he has to go by Ben or Kenobi, can't mess with that canon.

 

I just wonder what story is there to be told? The comics have sort of touched on some of what he's been up to and it's pretty boring (by movie standards).

A couple buddies and I hypothesized maybe an Eastwood-type Western set on Tatooine?

 

I think it could absolutely be a western type. They have covered SOME of this time yes, but he's alone in the desert for 20 years, that's a lot of time to work with. I'd speculate it's him protecting Luke in some way, or he could go off planet for something important. I don't believe they have said he never left Tatooine for a short time. I'm honestly just excited to see Ewan get a chance to play the character outside of the prequels. To work with a good script, a good story, other good actors. He was probably the best thing about the prequels, those to me are his movies and he had so little to work with. Given what Disney has shown us with 7 and Rogue One, he could be fantastic.

 

Maybe it will be Obi Wan teaming up with some old clones on a mission. They can call it...


Benny and the Fetts

 

Savory, check your PMs

 

Responding to this message with a check your pms make it seem like the joke was sooooo bad im in danger of being banned.

 

Looking at the director rumored to be in talks, director of Billy Elliott and The Hours. Not an action movie director. To me that indicates a character driven movie, maybe even a.. quiet and smaller movie by SW standards. If that's the case I'm no less or no more excited, but I like the idea we might be getting something that feels new here, it could be a very deep movie.