Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Directed by Ron Howard
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.
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But it isn’t even comparable to its fellow anthology film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).
After the more idiosyncratic Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , time to expect the expected.
The standalone Rogue One: A Star Wars Story attempted to use the fantasy world to tell a gritty wartime tale, but Disney was ultimately unhappy with the result, and writer-director Tony Gilroy was brought in to help Gareth Edwards’ film over the finish line.
The overarching narrative could furnish an unrelated film – and, like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , it’s not designed to fall into the regular episodic canon – while every detail fans have anticipated eventuates.
Now this is more like it: After the dour, joyless slog that was Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, here’s a non-trilogy Star Wars movie that’s worth its Craitian salt.
To the extent that the movie is a western at heart, its smartest, subtlest influence is the Joan Crawford classic Johnny Guitar, about a woman who makes her way in the Wild West against all odds, and in the face of all morality.
The director is Ron Howard, the Hollywood stalwart who was brought in midway through production to replace Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“The Lego Movie,” “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”); apparently, the duo’s anarchic approach to the Lucasfilm crown jewels rattled the producers’ sensibilities.
I imagine similar instructions were given to original "Solo" directors, Chris Miller and Phil Lord ("The Lego Movie," "21 Jump Street"), who were fired from the "Star Wars" spin-off due to "creative differences" with Lucasfilm.
Director Ron Howard ( In the Heart of the Sea , Edtv ) finishes what previous directors (now producers, two of the *fifteen* this film boasts) Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ( The LEGO Movie ) were never allowed to complete.
The movie, which was started by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie) and then given the directorial equivalent of a page-one rewrite by Ron Howard, moves fast (for a while, before bogging down somewhere in the second hour) and is “plotty” in a hectic, meaningless way I don’t enjoy.
Some recognizable Lord-Miller touches survive in the better bits of dialogue, particularly in the scenes with legacy characters (something the filmmakers, now credited as executive producers, tried out via The Lego Movie ).
Tal vez, Solo pudo ser una película diferente bajo la dirección del los creadores de esa joya literaria que es The Lego Movie, Phil Lord y Christopher Miller ; pero el proyecto acabó bajo la batuta de un viejo y seguro conocido como Ron Howard (Cocoon, Willow, Apollo 13).
Disney has backed the Star Wars franchise into a corner, sacrificing must see spectacle for increased frequency in a quantity over quality quest for cash Mel Brooks foretold in his satirical, yet prescient “Spaceballs.”
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For every “Thor: Ragnarok” there is a “Thor: The Dark World.”
There were hopes when directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, of The LEGO Movie and 21 Jump Street, were hired that the duo walk the franchise down a new path instead of the beaten one – to give things something like the comic charge that director Taika Waititi infused into Thor: Ragnarok.
It has humor, but compared with a movie like “Thor: Ragnarok” or “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
John Powell's (2016's " Jason Bourne ") music score is lush, rousing, and full of depth, his original compositions perfectly intermingling with samples from John Williams' memorable themes.
El director de Apolo 13, familiarizado con George Lucas, con el que trabajó en American Graffiti y en Willow , entra al proyecto para filmar un 70% de la película que finalmente se acredita como director único, Lord y Miller simplemente tendrían el título de productores ejecutivos.
Tal vez, Solo pudo ser una película diferente bajo la dirección del los creadores de esa joya literaria que es The Lego Movie , Phil Lord y Christopher Miller; pero el proyecto acabó bajo la batuta de un viejo y seguro conocido como Ron Howard ( Cocoon, Willow , Apollo 13 ).
There aren’t any glaring seams in Solo, which gives Howard a welcome opportunity to flex his often-underappreciated action-cinema muscles (Willow, Rush, In the Heart of the Sea).
If anyone had the experience to ape Lucas’ style then it’s Howard, who was worked with the Jedi master on American Graffiti and Willow .
Directed by Ron Howard ("Inferno," "Rush," "The Da Vinci Code," "Cinderella Man," "Apollo 13," "Backdraft," "Willow," "Cocoon").
That's thanks largely to the directorial "safe pair of hands" Ron Howard ( Apollo 13 , Willow ) and a solid screenplay by Jonathan and Lawrence Kasdan.
I imagine similar instructions were given to original "Solo" directors, Chris Miller and Phil Lord ("The Lego Movie," "21 Jump Street"), who were fired from the "Star Wars" spin-off due to "creative differences" with Lucasfilm.
Ron Howard, hired late in the day to take over the film from directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, calmly steers the famed Falcon through racing action, twisting plot and quippy dialogue: The industry press reports that Mr. Lord and Mr. Miller, best known for 21 Jump Street and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, were too fond of improvising for the tastes of Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.
Kathleen Kennedy eligió al dúo de Phil Lord y Christopher Miller, cortejados por los grandes estudios después del éxito de la gran aventura Lego y 21 Jump Street .
About a year ago, director Ron Howard took over for directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street) after executive producer Kathleen Kennedy showed them the door.
If I had to guess, however, I would probably say that Lord & Miller were probably responsible for most of the Lando-related material on display as it displays a somewhat more bent sense of humor that hews closer to what they were doing in films like “The Lego Movie” and “21 Jump Street.”
After six months of shooting, original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller ( The Lego Movie , 21 Jump Street ) were fired from the production over creative differences, with Apollo 13 ’s Ron Howard stepping in to replace them.
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The warring factions mount up like the rival rebellions in Life of Brian .
The criminal element of the Star Wars galaxy is ripe with possible stories and keeps the rest of this movie chugging along (although the cameo from the next movie’s presumed big bad is mind-numbingly stupid and worrisome, on the level of Johnny Depp’s appearance at the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) .