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Han Solo Film question for the Star Wars group. What other characters from 4-6 will we see in the Han Solo film?
- Lando, confirmed
- Leia, from a distance maybe?
- Vader?
- Jabba? Would love to see a trimmed down Jabba
- Boba Fett?
- Chewbacca is confirmed, is that correct?
- Any others you think will show up? Ewoks?

I'm loving these spin off movies. Rogue 1 is going to be a blast to see, it looks really good from the trailers. Great time to be a star wars fan.

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vwbug said:

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Han Solo Film question for the Star Wars group. What other characters from 4-6 will we see in the Han Solo film?
- Lando, confirmed
- Leia, from a distance maybe?
- Vader?
- Jabba? Would love to see a trimmed down Jabba
- Boba Fett?
- Chewbacca is confirmed, is that correct?
- Any others you think will show up? Ewoks?

I'm loving these spin off movies. Rogue 1 is going to be a blast to see, it looks really good from the trailers. Great time to be a star wars fan.

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Duncan Idaho said:

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Urban Ag said:

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why on earth would Ewoks appear in a Han Solo movie?

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Because they are awesome

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Yeah, and that feels pretty much like the case here. I had one day. It was a little bitty pick-up shot we were doing. And I did see all the fuss about it, but it's all free commercials and free fuss about the film. I was not involved. If it was as dramatic as they say, [Laughs] I seemed to be a very lucky person who was not part of it. But I can't imagine it was as big as they say.

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"The biggest challenge on Rogue One was to give Gareth, Gareth's vision for the film. In many ways that is the biggest thing because a director always has his unique way of seeing the world, and I think Gareth has an incredibly unique way, and I think you'll see that in the film, I think it'll come through. His whole style of filmmaking is different from people we've worked with. You have to get to know him, and get to know his creative what would Gareth like and what doesn't Gareth like? What would work for Gareth and what would work for his film?"

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"..Understand not where you are now, but where the film needs to be at the end, and where [Edwards] wants to be at the endI think you'll see that the characters in this, in Rogue One, are, I daresay, more realistic. They're more up close and personal.

Gareth's world is a much more intimate world. When we came to do the creatures for him it was the same thing. I think in many films we make characters that are all about the world around us, whereas for Gareth it's about people, it's about their faces, their expressions, it's about the things they're doing not in the broad scale, but the intimate scale."

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Things I wonder about - Do you think R2D2 knows his old friend is Darth Vader?

His memory was never wiped, only 3PO's.

Do you think R2 was ever like, "Hey golden rod, you know the kid that built you? Yeah, he turned into a real dick. You see that guy in black that just froze Han in carbonite? That's him."

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I have to admit, if you didn't even tell me what the movie was and just told me Phil Lord and Chris Miller are going to work with Bradford Young, I am in.
[Laughs.] Yeah.

It could have been Lego Movie 2. It could be anything. I'm in.
[Laughs.] Now, this collaboration, in the essence, didn't seem as obvious to me. You know what I mean? There was a real bridge to it. But they convinced me.

They had to convince you?
They convinced me. I wasn't sure, you know what I mean? They were sure, though.

I imagine they were.
They know exactly what they want. And it didn't take long to convince me, but they did it. They referenced the right things and immediately I was like, "Okay, I want to work with these guys." You know, but I wasn't sure. Star Wars, it's not something I've been thinking about or dreaming about. It just kind of fell on me, so I wasn't expecting that.

I got to interview Empire Strikes Back cinematographer Peter Su*****zky once. His whole point is that he and Irvin Kershner weren't sci-fi filmmakers, so that's why that movie worked so well.
Yeah. I mean, I think Peter and Irvin, they were experimental filmmakers. So that just was the brilliance of that, the unexpected bridge between that film and what they did. But it makes sense, though. It makes sense because that world is really playful, and it needs that. It can't be too procedural and it can't be too over the top action. Those films straddle a fine line and so why wouldn't you bring the two best art filmmakers of their time to the table and have them be part of the process? That's why that film is the best film narratively and it's the best film visually.

You said Lord and Miller referenced the right things. What did they say?
Well, I'll just say this: that they referenced the right films in the American film lexicon that really touched me in a real tender place. And they mentioned some films that I don't think they knew I had such a really emotional attachment to and there's one in particular and I'm not going to give it up because it would just tell everything. But there's one in particular that they mentioned in the referential landscape and that one really convinced me that these cats wanted to do something different. Because if you mention that film, it shows that you're brave and that you want to really try to do something different. And so, as soon as they said that, I had to double check, like, "Are you sure? That? You know what they did?" And they're like, "Yeah, that's the film we want to make." And I was like, Wow, these cats are brave.

That's really interesting it came down to that. There's a chance you might not have liked that movie they referenced.
They're honest. Yeah, those guys aren't guarded. They're not guarded with what they do best, you know what I mean? They believe in themselves, so they're only going to reference things that mean something to them. And if you are into it, great, let's roll. If you're not, we'll try again on another film. But these cats are real, they know exactly what they want. And so, that goes a long way for me.

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