Details on the extensive reshoots for Lucasfilm’sSolo: A Star Wars Storyhave been pretty scarce so far.Ron Howardstepped as director back in June, followingPhil LordandChris Miller’s departure from the project, and subsequently shot months worth of additional photography, but outside of thelate addition ofPaul Bettany, some trade reports suggesting Lucasfilm wanted amore traditional Star Wars feeland the official “creative differences” line, the studio has done a pretty stellar job at keeping a lid on what exactly the reshoots entailed.
Apparently, they didn’t have much to do withDonald Glover’s young Lando Calrissian. While at the TCA for the second season of his fantastic FX seriesAtlanta, Glover spoke to the press about the transition between directors and how much of his material from Lord and Miller’s cut was reshot.
“Not a ton actually,” Glover said. “Not a lot at all, at least not for me. I think we’ve all never been faced with anything like that and I think he did a good job of coming and tell us he didn’t want to change what we were doing at all. He wanted us to remain confident in our vision. He just wanted to sculpt it in a way.”
That sentiment echoes what co-starThandie Newtonsaid back in November after she finished her reshoots,
“Apart from the initial shock and feeling bad for [Lord and Miller] not being able to finish their work, their work is everywhere in it,” she said. “Ninety percent of my stuff is with them. And it certainly wasn’t about, ‘Oh we have to start again and do it all over.’”
Glover also talked about filming aboard the Millennium Falcon; in particular, a new shot of the iconic space ship we haven’t seen before:
“I remember going on set one of the first times, [Ron Howard] was like, ‘Yeah, I want to follow you onto the Millennium Falcon and do this thing,’” Glover said. “I was like, ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen the outside go into the inside.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, no one’s ever done that shot.’ As a fan I was like yeah, I was really excited. I know there’s been a lot of talk in the press about this movie but for me anyway, it was a dream and also it looks really cool to me.”
We’ll no doubt be seeing the first trailer forSolo: A Star Wars Storysoon, and it will be interesting to see what kind of tone the film takes. No doubt fans will have a field day trying to parse out which parts came from which filmmaker long after the film is released (just ask the Zack SnyderJustice Leaguecut contingent), but we’ll have to see if the reshoot seams are as obvious as they were inRogue Onewithout the benefit of pre-reshoot trailers for comparison.
Solo: A Star Wars Story, starringAlden Ehrenreich, hits theaters on June 20, 2025. For more of the latest onSolo, check out the links below:
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