These guys look nothing like each other...
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...yet, life goes on.
actually they do look vaguely alike. both have similar facial features, a lot more than Alden and Ford have.
Alden has more features in common with Ray Liotta than Harrison Ford.
Like someone said, that was a recasting based on necessity rather than choice.
Disney had the whole world to choose someone who looks vaguely similar to Ford, but decided to go with the person who Spielberg met at a Bar mitsvah, and who has no resemblance to Ford whatsoever.
It doesn't look like a decision based on making the best movie possible for audiences, because if it was, on looks alone, any competent casting director would throw out Alden at the first sight and give him a villian role or something else.
The objective is surely to find someone who looks similar to Ford, otherwise whats the point of the movie? If they have exhausted all possibilities and cannot find anyone suitable, then by all means, go with who they want, but it looks like they didn't try hard enough to be honest.
It isn't as though Daisy Ridley or Kelly Marie Tran or John Boyega are acting powerhouses, so let's not kid ourselves that Star Wars is some franchise that requires Juliard school acting training, when in fact most cast members were unknown. Seems like people like to revise history by talking as though these movies somehow are the peak of acting prowess, in fact far from it. The cheesiness of Star Wars is what gave its charm all those years ago. Even Alec Guiness felt the movies were beneath his talent, so let's not kid ourselves that a fantastic actor was required for this.
Any competent actor who looked, sounded and could bring a version of Han solo on screen would be good enough, but when your chosen actor is more like Goodfellas Ray Liotta than Harrison Ford, then you are just being a bit stupid to be honest.
No wonder Mark Hamill despises the current movies and execs, even he can't stand the way they turned his character into a brooding coward hiding in a cave.
I could even say, why even bother doing a CGI Tarkin or Leia, why not just grab some old codger and let him play the Tarkin part?
Since it seems when it comes to Han Solo, nobody cares if the person even looks like the original actor, then they should have just got any girl to play Leia at the end of Rogue One also. A waste of money really.