Last month, Lucasfilms announced that The Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller would be directing the upcoming Star Wars Anthology film that would center around Han Solo and today we have more information on the film. EW interviewed Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and this is what she had to say:
“We don’t want to spend time going back and answering a lot of questions that, quite frankly, I don’t think people want answered,” says Kennedy. “…I think the key here is that we are identifying an event or events in Han Solo’s life that gives you some idea of who he is and why he is the character we have all known to love…You can imagine, given who we’ve chosen to come in and direct, it should be very entertaining and funny. Han Solo is the character inside Star Wars that everybody knows has a wit and sense of humor. So that’s what this should be.”
The screenplay for the Han Solo movie is written by Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan and is said to focus a young Han Solo and how he became the smuggler, thief, and scoundrel we came to know and love. But just how young will he be? Well, according to Kennedy, he will be younger, but not that much younger:
“He’ll definitely be probably in the high teens, low 20s,” she says. “We’re not introducing you to a 10-year-old Han Solo.”
The film is slated for a May 25, 2018 release
Sometimes movies are anchored in the minds of those who watch them, so much so that they become a permanent part of the landscape of when they were watched or released. I first saw The Big Chill when it hit home video back in 1984, but I had already soaked in an integral part of the film as my parents played the soundtrack (on vinyl of course) at home on a regular rotation (and usually at parties they threw). I was immersed in the film and although its subject matter was rather advanced (suicide) for someone of 9-years old, I truly think it is a film that had a profound effect on me without me really realizing it. So when I had the chance to review Jesse Zwick‘s 
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