Now that Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover are locked in to play Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, we should probably expect to hear plenty of movement on the young Han Solo Star Wars Anthology movie as directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller gear up to go into production early next year.
Lord and Miller have already secured a cinematographer for the spinoff in Bradford Young (Selma, A Most Violent Year, Arrival), and Young has been chatting to Collider about the project, and how they plan to “break some rules”.
“We’re doing our own thing, that’s why we’re there,” said Young. “Phil and Chris are there to bring what they bring to their films, their very unique vision, their perspective on story and they asked me to come bring what I bring, and so just for that it won’t feel like any of the other films. And nobody at Lucasfilm is asking us to betray that, they’re saying ‘We’re in full support of what you do and we wanna make sure that we’re able to help you do it in the best way.’ It’s gonna feel like a Star Wars film, but we’re definitely gonna break some rules, and we’re encouraged to do that. Visually, narratively that’s a good mandate. They really are about, from what I’ve seen so far, supporting up and coming artists, artists who have a strong vision and voice and perspective, and they really wanna permeate the films with those kinds of voices. So it’s interesting, very interesting. Not what I thought it would be, that’s for sure. I’m pleasantly encouraged and pleasantly surprised.”
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Han Solo: A Star Wars Story is set for release on May 25th 2018.
Originally published October 31, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
