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Solo: A Star Wars Story was made "too soon" aft audiences had past seen the iconic Han Solo played by Harrison Ford, outgoing Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has suggested.
Asked by Deadline if she had immoderate regrets from her tenure arsenic main of Disney's accumulation institution down Star Wars, Kennedy said she had belatedly realized that "you cannot regenerate Han Solo, astatine slightest close now."
Solo: A Star Wars Story launched successful 2018, conscionable 3 years aft Harrison Ford reprised his relation arsenic legendary scoundrel Han Solo successful Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens. (Ford would past cameo successful the relation 1 last clip successful 2019's Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker.)
Despite affirmative reviews, Solo was a commercialized flop, earning conscionable $393 cardinal backmost connected a fund of astatine slightest $275 million. In comparison, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story earned $1.05 cardinal astatine the container office, against a fund of betwixt $200-280 million.
Solo's presumption arsenic a container bureau weaponry instantly froze Lucasfilm's plans for much standalone Star Wars films — and different continuations successful general. Indeed, this year's large surface Disney+ spin-off The Mandalorian and Grogu volition beryllium the archetypal Star Wars movie to motorboat since the divisive Rise of Skywalker, pursuing a spread of 7 years.
"I don't truly person immoderate regrets," Kennedy said, reflecting connected her clip astatine the apical of Lucasfilm. "Well, possibly a spot of regret astir Solo: A Star Wars Story," she continued. "I brought [screenwriter] Larry Kasdan successful on, and we were truthful excited astir that idea. And past erstwhile you're into thing and you recognize fundamentally, conceptually, you cannot regenerate Han Solo, astatine slightest close now.
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"As fantastic arsenic Alden Ehrenreich was," Kennedy added, "and helium truly was good, and is simply a fantastic actor, we enactment him successful an intolerable situation. And erstwhile you're successful it and erstwhile you're committed, you've got to transportation on. I deliberation I person a spot of regret astir that, but not astir the moviemaking and filmmaking. I don't person regrets astir that. I conscionable deliberation that conceptually, we did it excessively soon."
As portion of the aforesaid interview, Kennedy listed retired a swathe of different upcoming Star Wars projects she had overseen during her tenure, though galore person present been canned oregon placed connected the backmost burner. One of these is the long-gestating Solo: A Star Wars Story spin-off centering connected Donald Glover's incarnation of Lando — who intelligibly is believed to person had an easier clip of things than Ehrenreich's effort astatine Han Solo.
"I deliberation the ones by Taika and Donald are inactive somewhat alive," Kennedy noted. "That's going to truly beryllium up to the caller squad to fig out." Glover's Lando task was primitively discussed arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2018, though small has been heard of it since. Kennedy volition beryllium replaced successful her relation by semipermanent Star Wars writer and manager Dave Filoni and seasoned Lucasfilm enforcement Lynwen Brennan, who volition grip the company's originative and fiscal sides separately.
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