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Days later,Ron Howardwas hired to finish the film.
Phil and Chris are good directors, but they werent prepared forStar Wars, says our source.
After the 25th take, the actors are looking at each other like, This is gettingweird.
[Lord and Miller] seemed a bit out of control.
She also declined to make the directors available for an interview.)
And he impressed the beleagueredSoloproduction by working really fast.
When he came on, he took control and you could feel it, the actor says.
He got respect immediately.
A really easy guy to work with.
Howard certainly needs to work fast.
Howard has been cagey about the How much is his and how much is theirs?
aspect of the film that has stoked fan fascination.
We were really proud of the many contributions we made to that film, Miller said from the podium.
In light of the creative differences, we elected to take an executive producer credit.
That was a really big gap to bridge, and it proved to be too big.)
Its exactly the same script.
Theyre filming exactly the same things.
Theres nothing new, says the actor, adding: [Lord and Miller] used whole sets.
But Ron is just using parts from those sets.
I guess theyre not shooting wide angle.
Maybe to save money.
Trying to mimic Harrison Ford is really tough, our source says.
Lucasfilm wanted something very specific: copying someone else.
Aldens not a bad actor just not good enough.
You could see his acting became more relaxed.
He became more Harrison-like, our source says.
It was crazy, the actor recalls.
They fired our bosses.
Everyone was texting each other: Did you see the news?
Do you think theyre doing reshoots?
And it was crazy how everything got leaked to the press.
Film Quality
So, are the reshoots quantitatively makingSoloa better movie?
If they want to keep makingStar Warsmovies, it has to be good.
