The directors of the Han Solo prequel/stand-alone movie were just fired yesterday and it’s a gigantic mess. [LaineyGossip]
Blac Chyna & Rob Kardashian might be happening again? [Dlisted]
I love the top part of Malin Akerman’s dress (and I loathe the bottom). [Go Fug Yourself]
Lesbian pulp fiction used to be a thing. [Pajiba]
Hello Again trailer: this movie looks… odd. [Jezebel]
Olivia Culpo, Victorian lampshade. [Popoholic]
Someone named Josephine Skriver is just hanging out in her bra. [Moe Jackson]
James Corden sent Emperor Bigly 297 copies of Philadelphia. [OMG Blog]
Rest in peace, Prodigy of Mobb Deep. [Buzzfeed]
This woman tried to give away her child to strangers. Ugh. [Starcasm]
Axl Rose & Tom Jones are the new Wolf Pack. [Wonderwall]
Han solo mess looks glorious !
I’ll still see it just to stare at Alden and Donald’s beautiful faces.
Fingers crossed for some Alden/Donald love scenes
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when Kathy Kennedy was looking at those dailies…
That’s bad for the Han Solo movie. That’s really, really bad. I mean I never thought it was a good idea for a movie anyway but this is really awful.
It’s not unprecedented for directors to get fired from big movies, but during filming??? I think you’d probably have to go back to Superman 2 in the very early 1980s and even that was not the same thing (Richard Donner had been filming the first and the sequel basically back to back so it’s a different setup/timing). And to not let them finish the last 3 weeks but rather to take this massive PR hit?? Something is hugely wrong with this movie.
For an industry watcher this is absolutely insane!!
Yes to everything. Mia, do you have any idea of what the vision for this project is supposed to be?
I’m honestly not sure! It was supposedly styled as a heist movie with comedic elements. The key quotes from these articles seem to be suggesting that Lord and Miller had Han Solo as too “jokey” or comedic of a character when to Lucasfilm he’s supposed to be more of a sarcastic and selfish character. But not figuring this out until FIVE months into shooting makes me think the vision for this project was never clear. That’s really bad. So so bad.
@Mia4S – and this isn’t even the first time this movie has lost a director, Lucasfilm already fired Josh Trank from the Han Solo director chair after F4 was a disaster and he acted like a giant brat on-set.
I really think it’s a waste to devote an anthology film to literally the most famous and central figure of the OT to not have Skywalker DNA. Rogue One at least introduced new characters and had (this is particularly amusing in light of reports that Kennedy thought the action and acting sucked) a really solid cast who actually elevated their material.
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” yet another Hollywood movie that did not need to happen.
It was in shambles the moment they decided to cast somebody who wasn’t Harrison Ford as Han Solo. [/FAN DRAMA]
Can we just have Harrison wear like droopy pants and a backwards cap and play Han in this movie, too? Because that would be hilarious and I need to see it at least as a Funny or Die bit.
@Erinn, I would totally go see that movie on opening weekend! 😂😂😂😂😂
According to that article Kathleen Kennedy sounds like a nightmare to work with.
There were rumored to be major creative differences between Kasdan and the writers where Han’s characterization was concerned, too, so I’m not sure if this is all her.
Until the Marvel movies Kathleen Kennedy was the most succesful producer by box office in history. She has helmed pretty much everything done by Spielberg and Lucas among others. If you think she is hard, you have no idea what it takes to make a film. You also wouldn’t survive the true hardasses of film production.
SW fans like to use KK as a scapegoat for everything wrong with Disney’s approach, as if there isn’t a whole host of people behind her involved in the decision making. While I don’t agree with all of her choices (she definitely has shades of White Feminist), my suspicion is that she’s likely picking up flack for things a lot of male producers wouldn’t.
Kathleen Kennedy is a legend, very well respected and a woman who’s always tried hard to be fair to everyone and has done huge things in the industry. I don’t think she’s a nightmare to work with. Understandably she has a huge responsibility on her shoulders by making sure the Star Wars franchise remains succesful and true to its tone, and she can’t give the directors the freedom to do whatever they want, because the Star Wars world works under very strict parameters. Everything has to work inside the tone, story and purpose they’ve built. I think they were more the nightmare in the sense that how do you expect to arrive to such a established franchise thinking you’re going to run the show? This was a bad marriage from the start.
God I wish I could stay up late enough to watch James Corden’s Late Late Show.
Between this and the idiot director of Book of Henry slated for Episode 9 the next Star Wars installments are not boding well
I keep hoping Kathleen Kennedy will have “creative differences” with Colin Trevorrow so we don’t get a badly edited, convoluted, sexist movie. :/
No surprise there. I think it was a mistake to create a young Solo movie in the first place.
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Apparently Kennedy and co aren’t happy with the lead’s and Emilia Clarke’s acting either which… sounds weird? Isn’t that something you notice in the first weeks?
Also how anyone could hire Emilia Clarke and expect decent or good acting is beyond me.
Huge audition process and they don’t like who they picked? Fail.
That’s very interesting; and hard to ignore given what’s happened. While both Force Awakens and Rogue One had pretty heavy reshoots (rumours vary as to how heavy) the issues universally cited were story and pacing, no one ever implied the actors on those were not up to par. So this is new!
Some actors really need a strong director to guide their performance. If the performances were guided in the direction of very comedic or improvised, I could see Lucasfilm being unsatisfied even though the actors may have done exactly what was asked. That will mean a lot of reworking and reshooting. What a mess!
Yeah, TFA and Rogue One both nailed their casting , which is why my eyebrows are wayyy up @the news about the acting sucking in Han Solo.
BUT from what I can gather, JJ Abrams and Gareth Edwards were the ones who got to choose their cast, especially significant roles (JJ wanted Daisy and really campaigned hard for John, Gareth wanted Diego to play Cassian and approached him first with a plan to get the studio on side).
My guess is that Lord &Miller also got a similar free-ish rein to pick cast, and ended up picking some people whose performances don’t work.
Alden Ehrenreich was the best part of Hail, Caesar, followed closely by Channing Tatum, so that surprises me. Not sure I believe it.
He was great in Hail Caeser where he had direction from the Coen Brothers, that’s no small thing. However as rumours tend to be partial truths it may not necessarily be that his acting is bad but rather that Lucasfilm dislikes the performances. That would fit with the directors having been trying something very comedic which Lucasfilm is against.
Emilia Clarke, well, she’s been weak in everything I’ve seen her in (and yes I like Game of Thrones). I don’t expect much.
“Would that it t’were so simple”.
The Starcasm story is sad and awful, but the saddest thing is – the child could have ended much, much worse – at least his mother cared enough to try to find him a home, alas in her own twisted (quite obviously) meth-induced way. I just read about a prostitute, who had murdered her 4-year old son because he was “bad for her business” (inviting johns to a studio flat) and then hid his body in a sofa and proceeded to have sex with her clients on top of it for the entire month. Coincidentally, under this story there was a link to a post about 10 reasons why humans are inherently good and I wanted to throw my computer out the window. How can anyone believe that, when we are surrounded by monsters who are capable of such things?
Because there are many, many good mothers and people out there. There are horrible ones, too. But there are good ones.
I do think it’s a good thing that she didn’t kill her child, but I wish that it were more advertised that places like hospitals, firehouses, and even libraries – I think – will accept children if there is a need by the parent to not be a parent anymore. I wish it were more accepted for parents to give up their children to foster care; that way, some of these horrific deaths that have happened to sweet, innocent kids wouldn’t have happened.
Ok … but to be fair, I remember reading lots of similar stories about Rogue One when it was in production. And Rogue One in its final cinematic form was fantastic.
@Raindrop – What gives me pause is the scuttlebutt that the acting was a big part of the problem and that KK thought it was wooden.
For all of the film’s troubles, the acting skills of the Rogue One cast were never called into question during the months of rumours about reshoots. And with good reason – every one of them is a fantastic actor. I can’t say the same about the Han Solo cast….
Who cares? Would it kill them to make movies with new ideas instead of recycling old movies that were iconic in their day? This is why I don’t go to movies anymore. I saw the original Star Wars at a drive-in movie theater back in the 70’s. I don’t care to see some remake 40 years later.
I know this is countercultural, but I hope Rob Kardashian and Black Chyna actually can get together. I like her for many reasons and think she has actually been good for him. And Rob shows signs of being redeemable. But reality tv sucks out souls and destroys relationships so they have to find other ways to make a living and also stay away from Rob’s scheming mother as much as possible.
They need to both seriously get couples’ therapy, though. Maybe a live-in therapist will be needed, with Rob’s background…. I hope Rob is in intensive therapy for himself, he has so many issues that have been aggravated by his dysfunctional family. But the best thing would be to ban the cameras. I realize Blac Chyna needs to promote her business, but she needs to keep that strictly separate from her home life.