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Paul Bettany describes Solo: A Star Wars Story as a gangster movie, says Ron Howard reshot more than originally planned

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Despite being just five months away from release, we’re yet to see a first trailer for Disney and Lucasfilm’s next Star Wars offering, Solo: A Star Wars Story. However, while we wait, we do have some comments from Paul Bettany, a late addition to the cast who came on during the film’s reshoots to take […]

Ron Howard praises Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi has received some top praise from Ron Howard, director of Solo: A Star Wars Story. The Last Jedi is now in theatres across the world and is doing pretty well for itself. Earning the second highest box office opening of all time behind its predecessor, The Force Awakens, the Rian […]

Lord and Miller break silence on Solo: A Star Wars Story: “The experience of shooting the movie was wonderful”

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The expulsion of Phil Lord and Chris Miller from the director’s chairs of Solo: A Star Wars Story is old news at this point. Since then, the film has wrapped under director Ron Howard, and we have been treated to a host of behind-the-scenes images, an actual title, etc. With production over, it’s a good […]

Thandie Newton on Ron Howard’s changes to Solo: A Star Wars Story

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We have had plenty of time to recover from the shock over Phil Lord and Chris Miller being ousted from their director’s chair for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and promptly replaced with Ron Howard. Old news at this point. However, even with the film having wrapped… even with all of the tweets Howard shares […]

Ron Howard has reportedly reshot almost all of Solo: A Star Wars Story

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It came as quite the surprise back in June when it was announced that directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller had been fired by Solo: A Star Wars Story with around six weeks remaining of principal photography. At the time, it was said that much of the footage they had shot was usable, but Ron […]

Review: James Horner A Life In Music at the Royal Albert Hall

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Sean Wilson reviews the tribute concert in memory of the late Titanic composer… It takes a special composer to stamp a singular and enduring personality over the films they score, but James Horner was that person. Tragically killed in a plane crash in 2015 Horner’s death was  massive blow for the soundtrack industry, the loss […]

Ron Howard seemingly confirms that Corellia will feature in Han Solo: A Star Wars Story

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This may not come as too much of a surprise, but it looks like we might finally be paying a visit to Han Solo’s homeworld of Corellia for the very first time in the Star Wars saga with next year’s Anthology movie. Director Ron Howard, who has been very active on social media since taking […]

Emilia Clarke wraps filming on Han Solo: A Star Wars Story

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Over the past couple of weeks, Ron Howard has announced that both Donald Glover and Paul Bettany have wrapped shooting on the as-yet-untitled Han Solo Star Wars spinoff, and now the director has taken to social media once again to announce that Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has also completed work on next year’s […]

Ron Howard teases the Kessel Run with new Han Solo Star Wars set photo

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Following on from yesterday’s behind-the-scenes images, director Ron Howard has now taken to Twitter to share another photo from the set of Han Solo: A Star Wars Story, which he posted with the caption “spicy”. Given the caption, it’s probably safe to assume that this is an entrance to the spice mines of Kessel, a […]