Solo: A Star Wars Story (5/25/2018)

[B]

How old is Han in this movie? How old was he in the Orig Trig?

[E.H. Ruddock]

34 parsecs old

[Sgt. Crackpot]

34 parsecs old

So hes 110.84 light years? Also, why is his age a distance?

[Jorge]

Google tells me Han is canonically 29/30 years old in Ep 4, and that Harrison Ford was 33 when the movie was shot.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Apparently this is set about 10 or so years prior. How old is the actor, whatshisface?

[LoathedVermin72]

He’s 28

[dimejinky99]

All we know is this happens within the decade before the OT. Three different periods were reported initially. Don’t know if that’s remains to be the case.

[E.H. Ruddock]

But do they measure age in Earth years?

[dimejinky99]

I don’t know? Han is about ten years older than Luke so how far back from a new hope this goes will be determined by that maybe?
If it covers three different periods of his life it won’t really matter.

[dimejinky99]

Loads of new images from EW
http://ew.com/movies/solo-a-star-wars-s ... -it-chewie

[epilogue]

The copy under the pictures in that link begin to fill us in on plot elements, too. Very cool.

[dimejinky99]

Looks so cool

[bune]

So it's going to be a funny movie and they fired two funny directors. Because it was getting too funny. Am I missing something?

[stip]

Humor was never the issue (from what I understood). It was the style of humor - highly improvisational. Three problems seemed to stem from this

1. The humor may not have been universe appropriate (although I liked the mother joke from TLJ or droid, please! from TFA there were people who felt these were not universe appropriate and took them out of the movie. The style of humor, the pacing of it (Lord and Miller have a frantic style) may not have worked for Star Wars

2. The improvisational style took away from Kasden's script. Which obviously pissed him off, and possibly the larger creative team at lucasfilm who had a specific idea of what they wanted the movie to be. That makes you wonder how L+M got as far as they did since that's really who they are

3. The actor playing Han was having trouble working with them. I can start to appreciate that based on the small bits we've seen in the trailer so far. He seems to be trying to channel not Han Solo, but a young han solo. So instead of the world weary cynicism we have the youthful chip, the insecurity, the desire to prove yourself, the elements that will eventually crystallize into 'adult' Han. And so he needs to play a different character that has a clear and recognizable connection to the Han we're familiar with. That's going to be very difficult to pull off (for any actor) and I can see him needing the precision and accuracy and controlled environment that comes from people sticking to a script. Plus improvisational acting is VERY different from traditional acting. I did a lot of theater in high school. I won a statewide competition for improv. My very best acting could be charitably classified as ok,

[stip]

but I'm basing all that off of rumors and press releases, so what do I know?

[bune]

More than me!

But I like point#3. There's a part in the trailer where's he's doing the cocky brash "What's that?" (1:00 mark) and then he sobers up quick like he didn't really mean to sound like that.

side note, since I had to watch the trailer again to get that reference correct: Why are the floating cars drifting like there's friction under them? Is it just an underlying physics/uncanny valley thing? Or is it just a general "objects in motion tend to stay in motion until acted upon" and therefore it's not drift so much as weight being distributed against the turn?

[stip]

it's the force

[stip]

I've watched the trailer a couple more times, and while I'm still not drawn to it the way I was to the R1 and saga trailers, I am starting to appreciate what Alden is doing (or what I think he's doing). His may end up being a misunderstood performance. I suspect Lando will be treated as always Lando, and that Donald Glover will be able to get by with doing a great younger impersonation. He looks great. That smile of his sums it all up right there

[bune]

[stip]

that may be my favorite exchange in the entire movie.