Fired Solo Directors Felt Misunderstood After Star Wars Exit
Fired Solo directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller reveal they felt misunderstood after their exit from the Star Wars anthology movie. The 2018 film marked the second installment in the Star Wars anthology plan following the success of Rogue One and explored the origin story of smuggler Han Solo as he meets Chewbacca and becomes embroiled with a gang of thieves in the criminal underworld a decade prior to the events of A New Hope. Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover succeeded Harrison Ford and Billy Dee Williams as Han and Lando Calrissian with the rest of the Solo: A Star Wars Story cast including Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Thandiwe Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo and Paul Bettany.
Attempts at getting a Han Solo prequel project off the ground had languished in development hell for years prior to the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, with George Lucas originally planning a live-action TV series before shifting to a film with franchise vet Lawrence Kasdan attached to script. The same year, the filmmaker sold Lucasfilm to Disney, with the studio subsequently bringing in Kasdan to finish the Star Wars: The Force Awakens script and hired his son Jonathan to complete the Solo script and landing Lord and Miller to helm in 2015. Production would endure a rocky road when the two were fired from Solo over reported creative differences for the film and now they are offering new insight into the change.
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While appearing on The Business podcast to discuss their Apple TV+ series The Afterparty, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller reflected on having been fired as the Solo: A Star Wars Story directors. The duo recall feeling misunderstood by the general public
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