cayman shen
Master Member
Re: Star Wars Anthology (Young Han Solo)
This movie will only work if they avoid checking those boxes ENTIRELY. We KNOW all that crap. If this is just a freaking nostalgia Mad Lib like Rogue One and TFA, fans are going to get tetchy I suspect. Disney needs to give us something halfway fresh or gtfo. I liked TFA a lot, and warmed to R1, but my childhood is a stone they can't wring too much more water out of.
To me the cast looks promising, but I stand by my assessment that nothing they commit to film will live up to fan expectations and is sure to disappoint. I'm sure Disney thinks that it's a surefire hit, I mean who doesn't love Han Solo, but does anyone really want to see Han before he became "Han Solo" as we knew him from ANH? I mean really? It's likely going to end up like a sheet with boxes that need to get checked off.
Boxes:
1. Meets Chewbacca
2. Wins Falcon from Lando in a game of space poker
3. Does the Kessel Run in less than 12 Parsecs
4. Takes on a job from Jabba that he has to abandon when boarded by Imperials
5. Comes across Jedi but dismisses it as a hokey religion
We already know all of this just by watching the OT. Any Star Wars fan worth their salt already knows this stuff and has 40 years of ideas on how it all played out.
I don't know. I hope that I'm wrong. I really do.
This movie will only work if they avoid checking those boxes ENTIRELY. We KNOW all that crap. If this is just a freaking nostalgia Mad Lib like Rogue One and TFA, fans are going to get tetchy I suspect. Disney needs to give us something halfway fresh or gtfo. I liked TFA a lot, and warmed to R1, but my childhood is a stone they can't wring too much more water out of.