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Star Wars: Han Solo Movie Gets Ron Howard As New Director

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Airsoft players who are fans of Han Solo of Star Wars may just want to hold to their DL-44 airsoft blasters tight and hope that LucasFilm will be able to deliver a nicely produced Han Solo movie that can rival or exceed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.  Both Rogue One and the Han Solo movie are some of the standalone Star Wars movies that Disney and LucasFilm have been planning to expand the Star Wars universe and milk tthe most out of one of the most successful movie franchises ever.

The latest news coming out of LucasFilm was that directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were moving slowly and not offering much camera footage for editing that they were fired by LucasFilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Vanity Fair got the juicier details that led to their firing from directing the movie.

To replace the two directors, LucasFilm has hired veteran director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Splash, Cocoon, Apollo 13, DaVinci Code) who has until the first week of September to finish the filming in London. The original schedule to finish the shooting was to be next month, but with these developments, the timetable had to be changed and Howard has to move faster as there is a release date that they are going to strictly follow.

Photo: Ron Howard (Source: Wikipedia)

But if there is one thing that Ron Howard should be familiar with is that he has worked with Harrison Ford and George Lucas in American Graffiti, one of the most profitable films of all time and in released in 1973. Though Harrison Ford will not in this movie and George Lucas has already sold LucasFilm to Disney.

Photo: The cast of the Han Solo movie (LucasFilm/Disney)

The problem with the Han Solo movie production is not only about with the directors. The LucasFilm bosses are not also happy with the performance of Alden Ehrenreich, who plays as the young Han in the movie. They had to call in an acting coach, which is rather unusual given that the production has already started filming. This might mean there will be a lot of reshoots to be done, just like what they did with Rogue One before it got released to worldwide acclaim.

Even with these problems besetting the production, the yet to be titled Han Solo Film is set to be released on May 25, 2018. For the meantime, airsoft fans of Han Solo can enjoy playing with the DL-44 airsoft pistol available in the market these days.

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