What this movie needs is a scene where Han opens up a closet door and there's random stock footage playing inside.

It’s not like the original movies were groundbreaking it the fields of storytelling or acting. They were revolutionary in terms of special effects, but in a time where a kid with some talent and free time can make movie quality effects with a laptop, effects have stopped being special.

I disagree and you suck cocks!

garcet is a Nazi!

The number 5 is a FAKE GEEK GIRL.

SolRo, more like SoyBoy!

You're why we can't have nice things.

I never said I was going to pay for it.

Oh my God. Groot was their Chewbacca. He was their Chewbacca the whole time and I didn't notice until now. You bastards.

I still think that Guardians of the Galaxy is the best Star Wars movie.

My first thought upon seeing Young Lando was, "Why is Han Solo even in this movie?"

While I'm not a fan of Donald Glover I would have much preferred a young Lando movie starring Donald Glover over this. I can really think of of three charterers that might warrant their own movie; Lando, Wedge, and and a young Admiral Piett. Piett was the only admiral Vader didn't kill, WHY? Was Piett a secret bad ass and saved Vader back in the day? I'd see that movie.

Fucking Piett would have saved the Empire. SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MOFF

Piett would've won!

Oh man! I'm now have hype for a movie that will never be made.

"A reasonable budget, a reasonable death laser, a reasonable Empire- Piett for Emperor"

Maggs, I think the mystique behind Piett was that the out of the vast majority of Imperial leadership in the films we were exposed to, we most often had a choice between cartoonishly incompetent fucks, or cartoonishly villainous fucks.

Someone like Piett explains how the Empire could continue functioning in the first place. Ultimately somebody has to want to follow SOME of these guys.

Not only did Vader not kill him, he field promoted the mother fucker. Piett was going places!

(also bonus stars for Space Odin for not writing "would of")

see, I *WOULD* pay to see that

Yeah that sounds like a good new direction for these.

I'm sure this will have all the trademark fun and verve of Ron Howard's last five movies (Hanks vs Reason III, Moby Thor, and Speed Thor) with the intense focus of the eleventy other TV and film projects in development he's got going in parallel.

He's this generation's John Frankenheimer -- early promise eclipsed by mercenary pablum -- with better comic sensibilities.

I'm seeing this to stare at all the expensively realized concept art while counting off how much of Han's OT dialog is given thorough exposition/call-backs. Bonus points if they tie in TFA. If it's anything more, then yay.

"Sure you first met Han Solo when he was thirty five, but what was he like when he was...in his twenties?" - Nobody ever.

Not as good as Rogue One? Space Jesus Christ that is faint praise if I ever heard it. What a ragged pile that movie was. The very idea that what the Star Wars franchise needed was MORE prequels is fucking ludicrous.

Rogue one should have been the Dark Forces movie dammit.

The data tower really did look a lot like the puzzle from level four of the first Dark Forces.

Jyn Erso...Jan Ors. Really not that much of a stretch and vanilla sidekick/love interest man could've totally been Kyle Katarn. They even could have had that whole "first Asian character in Star Wars" thing 1 1/2 years earlier.

They could still kill em in the end, and just say the Jedi Knight series ain't canon.

For me the fact that they all die was one of the more problematic parts of the movie from a pure star was aspect. I know they wanted to make a movie about the life of an average solderer in the galactic civil war but if they all died WHO IS TELLING THE STORY??? I have the same problem with the Force Awakens, who tolled Rey about the galactic civil? Yeah, she lives on a planet covered in wrecked star ships but who provided the context?

Maybe Ron Howard agreed and the reshoots were to implement RLMs ideas...

In seriousness though, the more info that's coming out the more it sounds like they pushed the "act like Harrison Ford" part too hard and the actors performance ended up coming off as parody. Some said it was Jim Carreyesque. To me, that makes more sense for the acting coach thing, basically they needed to tone down the imitation but still fit the character.

Just imagine it's the backstory for Peter Strauss' character from spacehunter

Well, it wasn't a sexless bore until the new movies. It's all hugs all the time, because if she doesn't sign and triplicate she says yes, it is unwelcome!

Seriously, Han Solo would come off as some sort of predator in today's environment.

Solo.

HAH!