JerseyBoy23
Veteran
You got to think long and hard if you're a up and coming director who is creative about working with Lucasfilm. This is the 2nd or 3rd time they've meddled into a standalone film.
Han Solo: A Star Wars Story [Official Thread] (2018)
TheGodling
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I think that's too much discredit to Howard, breh. He has his hits and his misses, and he's certainly a very traditional director, but he got enough classics to his name that you can't count him out. I'm mostly interested in this choice because Howard has never done a movie of this scale, it will be interesting to see what he'll do with it.
Ron Howard hasn't made a good film in a long ass time.
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Visual Storyteller
I can't wait until Arrested Development eventually references/satirizes this situation.
TheGodling
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He dropped Rush in 2013. I wouldn't say 4 years is a long ass time but if you look for the next one you have to skip all the way back to 2008's Frost/Nixon.
Ron is a stabilizing choice but not interesting. The whole point of these spin off stories was to show different flavors of the universe or at least I thought. Ron Howard is fine. The last movie of his I really loved was frost/Nixon and even then it's very traditional but it lives on the strength of the performances and the script. He's a journeyman who's competent and knows how to embellish melodrama. But he's not the guy I'd hire for a Han Solo movie or anything "interesting"
Well look. We've had this discussion on here before that producers wanting to be hands on with products they're spinning a lot of money on isn't anything new. It's been happening since Hollywood was a thing. It used to be produced driven entirely. Then directors got more power in the 70s and 80s but even then you had to be a specific type of director to get that leeway. With studios seemingly only in the blockbuster business now expect a lot more producers with their hands in the creative process because they're expensive and the studios have more at stake than philly
Rush was a good film? Since when. I watched it on hbo,forgot it 5 minutes after it was over. Yeah it wasn't terrible or anything but good? Nah.He dropped Rush in 2013. I wouldn't say 4 years is a long ass time but if you look for the next one you have to skip all the way back to 2008's Frost/Nixon.
Good performances but meh movie. Which is possible
Yeah it was competently made and bruhl carried the film but overall it was just kind of there.
And you're right Howard is a perfectly suited director for this type of gun for hire job.
And frost/Nixon was okay. Again,good performances,forgettable film. At least for me.
Ironman
#Knickstape
I just want a Darth Bane trilogy personally and a prequel trilogy for Revan
Exxxactly lol. And I already seen an ewok movie. Have no desire to see that shyt ever again in life. Now Spielberg or one of the cats who did John wick or Coogler or James wan. Those are the names I'd like to see attached to Han Solo if they decided months ago not to go with lord and miller.
Speaking of Spielberg how long is it before he directs one of these
TheGodling
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It is a good film. I'm not sure why there's a problem with Howard's directing style. Him and Eastwood are the last of a dying breed of traditional filmmakers and there's nothing wrong with that.
Again, I'm not sure if I'd go with him for a Star Wars movie but then again I wouldn't have gone with JJ Abrams or Rian Johnson either.
