>I don’t really have any regrets. Well, maybe a bit of regret about Solo: A Star Wars Story. I brought Larry Kasdan in on, and we were so excited about that idea. And then when you’re into something and you realize fundamentally, conceptually, you cannot replace Han Solo, at least right now.>DEADLINE: Harrison Ford is a hard act to follow…>KENNEDY: As wonderful as Alden Ehrenreich was, and he really was good, and is a wonderful actor, we put him in an impossible situation. And once you’re in it and once you’re committed, you’ve got to carry on. I think I have a bit of regret about that, but not about the moviemaking and filmmaking. I don’t have regrets about that. I just think that conceptually, we did it too soon.https://deadline.com/2026/01/kathleen-kennedy-exit-interview-1236665253/
She's largely right. I think it would have worked if they cast Jensen Ackles, though.
>>217378288>And then when you’re into something and you realize fundamentally, conceptually, you cannot replace Han Solo, at least right now.Harrison Ford is 83 years old and he fucking hates this baby manchild franchise.
>>217378288>Fans: old character should be recast>*refuse to watch Solo*>movie flops
>>217378288>i only regret some decision about irrelevant movie no one gives a fuck about and not the sequels shitshow
>As wonderful as Alden Ehrenreich was, and he really was good, and is a wonderful actorKek no he wasn't, his performance literally put me to sleep. Woody Harrelson was the only memorable part of that movie
>>217378288Solo is the best star wars movie since RoTJ, faint praisethe only bad thing about it was the stupid sequel bait stuff
>>217378321lol Ackles would’ve been four or five years older than Harrison Ford was in Star Wars at the time.
>>217378288>As wonderful as Alden Ehrenreich washe was literally a random jew one of the producers or something met at a bar mitzvah
>>217378635I didn't even remember Harrelson was in the film until I read this post lmao
>>217378674It’s actually even better than that. Steven Spielberg met him at a bar mitzvah and gave him a career.
>>217378288I like how Alden was an 8th billing side character in the series Ironheart. Trannies off the street got more screentime than he did. He's lucky Disney doesn't blame their actors for their failures. Remember the black ginger bitch? They put her in like 4 different Disney projects: all failed. Not her fault tho! Right Disney?
It's all the same. Anything related to Star Wars by Disney, like every superhero movie they make, is the exact same with different colours. It doesn't matter.
>>217378697Woody has the best scene of the movie. Where he teaches Han his final lesson
Did people really give that much of a shit? The whole "young adventures of x" type stories tend to be more direct to video garbage than theatrical releases for a reason, but acting like Han Solo is some sacred thing feels like nonsense to me.I do however remember them making some big deal about searching for who to cast, only to end up picking someone who had some nepo connection to Spielberg
>>217378644I wouldnt go that far. But its the only Disney wars movie i dont actively despise a decent 6/10 movie.And no Rogue One isnt good either faggots. 2 good action squences dont excuse shitty boring characters, bland forest wittaker and a pathetic villain that gets bullied by Vader and CGI peter Cushing
>>217378288that movie was just bad and unremarkable regardless of whoever the fuck han solo was
>>217379074He was decent in Weapons.
>>217379200Yeah the Solowank feels absurd to me, it's just another Harrison Ford role and people like him mostly because he's played by Harrison Fordit's not the character that's particularly great
>>217379291You’re looking at it from a modern day perspective. Han Solo is the role that made him a huge movie star. He went from a struggling nobody to star practically overnight when Star Wars first came out.
>>217379321well we live now not in 1977
>>217379370Okay but it’s autistic not to be able to view things in their proper context.
>>217379370In some ways I do feel like the modern day is starting to get a 70's aesthetic, in that everything looks like shit
>>217379397you mean like considering Han Solo as the most beloved fictional character in the 2020s?
>>217379432Han Solo and Indiana Jones are inarguably Ford’s most iconic roles to this day.
>>217378617>just eat the slop>EAT IT!
>>217378288>And another thing... the best thing we did with Solo was add Darth Maul, to make that connection with the rest of the property and the ongoing [stories] being worked on by the Disney+ and animation [divisions]; that really brilliant stuff Dave was doing - we didn't want to leave that out.
>>217378288solo failed because it's a crappy movie and story, not because of the actor cast for the role
>>217378288Butler could have pulled it off
>>217379168Han learns to shoot first, but uh... he lets Greedo shoot first canonically, according to the special editions and every subsequent Yidsney release.
>>217379644It's a homage of the old days.
>>217378288Solo is the only nu-wars properties that isn’t complete shit. How Kennedy so blind to her immense failure that this is somehow her greatest regret and not everything that happened with the sequels?
They should've cast Anthony Ingruber, nigga even got to play a younger version of Ford's character in another moviehttps://youtu.be/vwLv993khfI?si=-IdAXcekpaa2xJ7nhttps://youtu.be/bba_wPdLxp4?si=ZrpC8T2zH9wvWlwu
>>217378545He may hate it but it´s the role that made his career. He wouldn´t have been Indy or Deckard if he hadn´t been Han Solo first... and in all fairness what he hates is probably not the role itself but the fanbase, which is understandable. That aside, not being able to recast Solo has little to do with those feelings. It´s not about bringing Ford back but about Han Solo having too much iconic value. Some roles can´t be played by different actors because the star and the actor become, for all intents and purposes, the same thing in the mind of the audiences so any change will always be met with rejection because no, it´s not the same.
>>217379734This, plus Solo was just a pretty bad movie filled with stupid prequel shit like explaining the dice.
>>217378288>hmmm what will our Han Solo prequel story be about?>uhm, well... oh I know! Let's explain that it's not his real name and he got it because he's alone and has no people! Some random wageslave Imperial clerk gave him his name on the fly! Perfect!That should tell you all you need to know about why this movie was unnecessary and a guaranteed bomb.
>>217379705Because it's the only Disney Wars movie that flopped, derp. Everything else made moneyz.
>>217379890It's about Han meeting Chewbacca though.
>>217379734>Harrison Ford filmed his small role as Colonel Lucas in Apocalypse Now (shot mostly in 1976) after finishing his scenes as Han Solo in Star Wars: A New Hope (filmed earlier in 1976), with Star Wars released first in May 1977, making Ford a superstar before Apocalypse Now (released 1979) even came out, despite being filmed in chronological reverse.He was in george's film american graffiti, which was released in 73. he already had his break
>>217379955American Graffiti didn’t make him a movie star in the way Star Wars did.
>>217380016my point was that he was good career wise and was already becoming a star. apocalypse now was a huge role that had nothing to do with george. he did star wars in between a bunch of projects. guess it depends on the definition of making his career.
>>217379662This. Making "Han shot first" the climax of the movie was ballsy af.
>>217378288I know it's in vogue for corporate types to never admit anything they do is wrong ever, but this is some heavily narcissistic cope on her part.
>>217378288The Han Solo actor wasnt the problem with the moviethe movie's problem was Emelia Clark.
>>217378644Agreed. Only decent bit of slop
>>217380544Even a decade later, they are determined to blame the male fans for the demise of Star Wars that they themselves brought about. They openly said they wanted to drive away male fans in favor of bringing in a horde of female fans to take the place. Except that massive amount of female fans never existed, oops. She was proud to openly say that Star Wars didn't have any extra side stories pre-written like Marvel. Proud to say that the EU never existed when they destroyed it! This multi-billion dollar blunder will be studied for the rest of the century as what not to do kek.
>>217380634Not much to study IMO.The real issue is why every single Kennedy production had development hell, drama, reshoots, massively over budget.Every single fucking time.Hmm... I wonder.Whose the cunt that ruined Witcher? Her shit is like golden television compared to what Kennedy produces.
>>217378288lmao they shit all over this actor when it was all their fault. Zero accountability with these evil cuntwads. They should be in prison. For real. The business they've been running cannot be legit.
>>217380735Their lesson takeaways are don't listen to these dipshit women who know nothing about the franchise even thought they've been around it for decades. Don't hire a bunch of random directors to create your trilogy that all don't know the franchise, hate the fanbase, will not communicate, will not make a story in advance, and just make up shit on the fly copying the original trilogy. Don't buy into all the social media garbage telling you to go heavily woke promising a non-existent fanbase will show up to support you.
The problem isn't that they recast the role, but that nobody asked for this movie in the first place
>>217380632Han Solo was tonally inconsistent and weirdly gay lando etc.They fixed Han Solo's vibe with Andor.I frankly think they should redo 4 Star Wars trilogies and when they get to New Hope they should instead start with Andor's "We are the Gor" scene and end with Kleya forlorn about all her friends dying just as the Millennium Falcon first flies overhead to Yavin.Trilogy will end as it was planned to, with Luke becoming a Jedi to save Han, defeating Vader temporarily (standing up to him effectively). Leaving the Emperor for a later trilogy as the final boss.So, you weave in Kleya's plot into Empire and Return, essentially. Make her have a love plot with Wedge Antilles.Kleya's role is to fulfill the charge Luthen gave to her which is to seek out some Jedi shit to help restore them.So her role is to connect Luke up with some Jedi leads for the third trilogy.For the third trilogy I have this idea of Vader losing his powers due to weird force shit and joining up with the Falcon team to find missing Luke before a final confrontation.Then in the final trilogy it's all about defeating the emperor and an entire film is them on the Imperial New Capital (Had Abbadon) and spying and getting caught and escaping to the Sanctuary Moon where half the movie is literally the Ewoks movies like a sort of magic adventure over hill and dale.
>>217380798That's not the problem. No one ever asks for any movie. The problem is that there is literally no story to tell. Solo is not having constant epic movie-worthy stories every year of his life. He's a worthless bum smuggler and didn't do anything interesting enough for a movie until he ran into Luke and Obi-wan.
>>217378288What an odd article. The CEO of a franchise nobody cares about anymore talking about the casting decision of an actor nobody knows for a movie everyone forgot. This is the very definition of, “economy of thought.”
>>217380789Well, one lesson of all this is that JJ Abrams is a worthless hack that somehow hid it for far too long.If he has any talent it's limited to the perspective that the audience is a bunch of dumbass goyim who eat up the most sensational, inexplicable bullshit and you have to cater specifically to how retarded they are to make money. In the interviews that proposed that he was this big Star Wars fan as a kid and grew up to have the dream of directing it fulfilled, he low key makes it clear that he kind of never really liked Star Wars that much.I think he was always in Hollywood for the money, not out of love of cinema (Spielberg I think does love the camera). It was his ruthless, cynical approach to slop storytelling and his business ruthlessness, plus sucking off Spielberg with Super 8, that led to him being given the keys to Spielberg's mafia.
>>217378288This dumb bitch killed the character off and THEN did an origin story. Who the fuck cares about the origins of a character that's dead? Shit's resolved, pointless film.
>>217380932you NEED to know how he got his name and met the dog man!
>>217379947>lol I'm callin this dog nigga chewy lmao then they played the chewbacca theme jon williams made just for this movie and we crode
>>217378617>>Fans: old character should be recast>recasts old character with some utter faggot>>*refuse to watch utter faggot*>>movie flops
>>217379321>Han Solo is the role that made him a huge movie star.Nah, the success of Star Wars got his foot into the door, but it was Raiders of the Lost Ark that made him a legit star.
>>217378617You can't just technically fulfill one standard fans have while ignoring every other one and expect it to work out
>the one thing she regrets is the only movie that was any goodLmfao
>>217380835Andor was fucking shit. Its the most overrated tv show to ever exist>m-muh blomphIts still shit.
>>217381958Hi George, and no Greedo didn't shoot first.You have no understanding of the space smuggler and thief archetype.Andor is the only good Star Wars product since KOTOR.
