In a galaxy far, far away... [Star Wars omnibus thread]

[Blerpa]

Also Emilia Clarke is a black hole of charisma.

It's simpler: she cannot act.

[Rare White Ape]

I don't care what she does on screen if she's that pretty.

[Rare White Ape]

Possible movie spoilers:

Leaked images of the associated Lego sets that will come out in time for the Solo film

Spoiler:

https://imgur.com/a/RW1WB#xs5LpX9

Included within:

Redesigned (and ugly!) Kessel Run Millennium Falcon
Updated TIE Fighter
Han Solo's speeder
Moloch's Landspeeder
Imperial Patrol battle pack

[Jason]

That guy looks older than Ford did in A New Hope.

[novicius]

Well FWIW Harrison Ford was 35 in 1977. Alden Ehrenreich is currently 28.

I like John Campea's take on the casing of young Han Solo: they need an actor, not someone who is going to do a Harrison Ford impersonation for two hours.



Especially since these movies are going to outlive us all, at some point there will be another (younger) actor playing Han Solo. We need to get used to the idea that these roles are going to have many people playing Luke, Han, Leia & Lando for decades to come, just like James Bond.

[novicius]

Glover is so good as young Lando -- that megawatt smile, the bunny ears he does with his droid co-pilot, all good stuff.

LandoSalute.jpg

[novicius]

LandoScream.jpg

[tigeraid]

I will watch this just for Donglover. It should've been Lando: A Star Wars Story.

[novicius]

Hopefully they greenlight that anthology film after Obi-Wan.

In other breaking news: 'Game of Thrones' creators David Benioff & D.B. Weiss to write and produce a new series of Star Wars films

Gotta wonder if this is a show for the new Disney streaming service?

[novicius]

Ah here's the latest TV show update.

Disney CEO Bob Iger weighed in on that question and in doing so revealed that they were currently in the process of developing a few different series based on the Star Wars franchise, and that an announcement on one would be made soon.

"We are close to reveal one of the entities that's developing [a Star Wars series] for us but we can't at this point in time because the deal isn't done," Iger said.

In other news, I've seen that an "amature" authority on Reddit has made their considerably-researched prediction on Solo's box office:

$660-$740m worldwide, including around $325-$365m domestically.

Should be interesting (to me) to see if Solo can hit that...