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though there were only weeks left of shooting directors Phil Lord and Chris
Miller were canned from the young Han Solo Star Wars spin-off film. The two have
been replaced by Ron Howard. EW revealed that there were tensions between the
directors, writer Lawrence Kasdan and producer Kathleen Kennedy. Lord and Miller
were shooting a comedy instead of a space fantasy. They were brought in to add a
comedic touch but had gone too far. The duo encouraged improvisation from the
actors which ignored the script to the point it wasn’t telling the story Kasdan
wrote. Alden Ehrenrich was openly complaining that they ignoring who Han Solo
was and that more or less sealed their fate. When pushed to follow the script
the two dug in and it had gone too far to let them finish the project. Howard
will be given a few weeks to get up to speed. His involvement will be weird
because the rules of the Director’s Guild of America allow for Lord & Miller to
edit the finished film even if that never comes out. So Disney could let them
edit the film, shelve the edit then let Howard cut the film the way he wanted
to. The DGA will determine the final credit for that film. |
