Die langjährige Leiterin von Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, bedauert Solo: A Star Wars Story – und sagt, dass sie Alden Ehrenreich durch die Besetzung als Han in eine „unmögliche Situation“ gebracht hätten „Solo“ ist bislang der Star-Wars-Realfilm mit den niedrigsten Einspielzahlen

He was great in Weapons, was able to stand out in a cast of amazing characters

Ehrenreich was not the problem. Making a lazy low effort cash grab was. See, here is where he got his pants, here is where he got his name, blaster check, chewie check. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

No regets for anything else huh? Not even Episode IX.

Delusional

Pretty much all of the sequel era crews were sent out to die. I want to say Rogue One is the only one that hasn’t had massive fandom backlash? I assume that is just waiting for enough people to watch Andor and get angry that Mon called out fricking genocide.

The problem isn’t that the fandom (and especially the chuds because… TLJ commit the crime of existing) hate everything and attack everyone. The problem is that Star Wars/Disney didn’t stand up for the talent. It was just „Well… sucks to be you. Hope the paycheck was worth it“.

Like, she also talks about how Rian couldn’t handle all of the backlash. And, fair. Homeboy made a movie where the chosen one was a space hobo abandoned by her nobody parents and a black dude is poised to lead an uprising of the proletariat. Also an ethnically Vietnamese (?) woman dared to exist. And he somehow did that while digging into the deepest and dankest of Star Wars lore (I love that apparently Luke’s nonsense was an established force power).

Disney’s response? Stay quiet and hope it goes away.

This is the shit where you have EVERYONE circle the wagons. you throw some cash at the talent to have them speak out in defense of it. You see if Mark or Harrison can be convinced to come do a puff piece interview for Disney+. And so forth.

[edit]Like, imagine a world where the response to „Eww, that isn’t how the force works“ isn’t the dude what made Brick trying to point out that it actually WAS an established bit of lore from this random ass book or comic. You instead have Mark Hamil come out and do a 30 minute special on „The mysteries of the Force“ where he and some of the EU writers talk about all the weird and crazy uses of the force in Star Wars history. And it just happens to include hard light projection across a galaxy. Which would ALSO have set up The Acolyte a lot better….[/edit].

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For what it’s worth? Alden was fine. He wasn’t Harrison Ford but that is the job of the script. That was the story of how Han BECAME Harrison Ford. Rather than just a rapid fire „‚member this“ series of nonsense that turned Han Solo from a storied rogue into Al Bundy always reminding people of that one time he threw four touchdowns in a single game.

Like… I get it. You NEED the Kessel Run because you are never going to have another chance to do it. The key is that you don’t have Han do 12 parsecs his first day out as a smuggler. You have some drama as he WANTS to do 12 but Woody or Eyebrows talk him out of it because it is too dangerous and too much is at stake. He insists that 12 would actually be safer since it lets him avoid more hazards but they insist that it takes him too close to whatever the flip and he concedes. So he does it in 16, which is STILL an accomplishment. The Falcon gets seriously damaged on the other end and you are left with a Han who knows he can do more and has even more reason to not want to trust others. And if you need a marvel quipfest to end the movie, you have Han and Chewie bickering where he continues to insist he could have done it in 12… maybe 13.

If only they could have squeezed a dozen more OT references into it, it would have worked. /s

People could have accepted Alden if the story and script were simply better. Thats the biggest issue. Nobody cared how Han got the name Solo. Nobody cared about his origins. We just wanted a cool bad ass young Han movie at the very least.

I don’t care what anyone says, that was a great movie and Alden Ehrenreich should have stuck around in some fashion.

was just ok, actors were great, just wasn’t a quality production

Lowest grossing “to date” *cough cough Mandalorian and grog cough cough*

He did just fine as Solo. The movie wasn’t that bad. Could it have been better? Sure, but it was fine as is.

And damn, I actually enjoyed the Solo movie too

It has nothing to do with the actor and everything to do with the lame ass story….

And the movie was absolutely fine!!!

I was super surprised to see how much people dislike this movie. I think it rules

I think the fact that it was widely known before release that Kennedy and Disney fired the directors of Solo and replaced them with a “safe choice” director in Ron Howard, meant that they didn’t have high hopes in the result and thusly gave it a reduced marketing budget? Which led to low box office numbers for it. I agree, it was a good movie that was unfairly shortchanged at the box office.

I liked this movie

It only ‚bombed‘ because it was the 3rd Star Wars movie to be released in 18 months.

Otherwise it was a great film

Ehrenreich was not the issue with Solo

Apologize for 7 8 and 9. You horribly managed the biggest layup ever.

I thought it was solid. Glover as a young Lando.. I was ready to see him in another prequel series and/or film

I thought he was fantastic. Solo deserved better.