Brian Truitt USA TODAY Published 7:09 p.m. UTC May 24, 2018 Ron Howard couldn’t help feeling like Han Solo when he got dropped last-minute into the director’s chair of Solo: A Star Wars Story, replacing ousted filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller mere weeks before the end of production. “I had to be a little Han-like, a little reckless, and lean into this and be like, ‘What the hell, let’s go for it.’ Never tell me the odds!” Howard laughs, rolling off a signature Solo line like an old-school Star Wars stalwart. The newest galactic spinoff (officially opening Friday, though theaters will show it Thursday night) stars Alden Ehrenreich as a younger version of Han Solo, the iconic space smuggler made famous by Harrison Ford. The movie chronicles his escape from a rough youth on his home planet Corellia, how he was introduced to best friend Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) and gambling frenemy Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), and his first time in the captain’s chair on the Millennium Falcon. The Oscar-winning director had to be less methodical and more instinctual when taking over Solo. “There wasn’t much time to overthink things. However, there was some time to explore and experiment creatively and everybody was up for that,” Howard says. “It was a very unique circumstance, to say the least, and I wound up having an excellent, exciting, kind of surprising creative experience.” Review: ‘Solo’ gambles (and wins) by not being just another ‘Star Wars’ movie More: Meet Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s revolutionary new ‘Star Wars’ droid L3-37… [Read full story]
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