How can they fit it all into 2 hours though? They're going to have the same problems R1 and TLJ have with jumping around from thing to the next too quickly.

Don't forget the tie-in Solo books and comics (now totally canon!!!11) that will strip away any last vestiges of mystique surrounding the proceedings. I predict a 400 page-ish YA novel that chronicles Solo's life from the cradle to the opening sequence of the film, including how he loses his virginity because it's really important to the people writing these things that we knowwwww.

Last Crusade is only 2 hours.
It could easily match the pace of that.

Rogue One and TLJ had too many characters hence being choppy.

On that note, I wonder how they will shoe horn in an Asian this time.

A Big Lewbowski rehash I could get on board with.
Chewie as Goodman, Han is the dude, Lando as Jesus,.

No Firefly is shit

Actually, yes

Also I can't read Donald Glover without thinking an old black man really is poor casting.

Paul the sparky wrote:

They won't though, and he'll probably have the same am I a good guy/do I care/do I believe in something decision to make in this as he did in ANH, rendering his whole arc redundant.

Jesuz that makes it sounds like a Will Smith role.

The (expected) problem for me will be if they try to tie it too tightly into A New Hope and the mainline films, such that it becomes part of it. This was an issue for me with Rogue One, with the way the ending pulled in Leia and how she got the plans...up until then, it was a separate thing, if it was good or bad it didn't really matter. but that ending effectively made it 'episode 3.9'...it affects the story because when Darth gets Leia in a new hope and she's like "I don't know what you're talking about", Darth should be "i just chased and murdered the fuckers that carried the plan onto your ship and just watched it fly away, I know full well you have it".

So if 'Han Solo' ends with him sat in Mos Eisley saying "what's that Chewie, some old dude and his grandson want a lift to Alderaan? Maybe we can fleece them to pay Jabba back" that will bother me because it's crossing paths with the 'other Han'. if they can keep it separate from the events of the main movies then I'll be much more 'accepting' of it.

I appreciate though that it may only be me that will get this caught up on such minor points.

I thought continuity was only for nerds?

Roujin wrote:

How can they fit it all into 2 hours though? They're going to have the same problems R1 and TLJ have with jumping around from thing to the next too quickly.

Dunno - ep 4 was just on 2 hours and had a fair old bit going on in it.

I liked Serenity.

I still want the Obi-Wan standalone with Ewan McGregor, when do you set it though? I suppose it would have to be between Sith and ANH.

TheDJR wrote:

I still want the Obi-Wan standalone with Ewan McGregor, when do you set it though? I suppose it would have to be between Sith and ANH.

Sith's an odd name for a woman. I don't remember him dating her.

I'm sure it's going to be an utter ripsnorter of an adventure which will make everything he gets up to in the original trilogy seem tame by comparison. A bit like how R1 Vader makes ANH Vader look like a pensioner with arthritis in his fight scene.

The official synopsis for Solo has been released:

Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.

It looks like someone  fixed the film in the edit

Some guy uploaded a cut without any women, it's 46 mins long.

If you’re wondering what sort of stuff was cut, here are some examples:

“Cut out most shots showing female fighters/pilots and female officers commanding people around/having ideas.“
“NO HALDO (sic)! She simply doesn’t exist. Her whole subplot doesn’t exist. The Kamikaze is carried out by Poe. ( = Poe dies.)“
“Leia never scolds, questions nor demotes Poe. He is a respected and very skilled high-ranking member of the resistance.“
“When there’s a scene where a woman is cut in making some important statement that can be substituted by another statement by a guy, then she gets cut out. Works pretty well actually.“
“Wookie eats the Porg, or at least isn’t interrupted in trying to do so.“
“No green milk.” (What the fuck)

Obviously it’s far from perfect. The source is not even on DVD-level. Some of the technical edits were slacked because why not, it’s a CAM source (e.g. some masks and Snoke disappearing). Sometimes there’s an extreme zoom despite the mediocre quality. There are plotholes and continuity errors and some cuts are not as smooth as they should be, especially audio transition-wise.

But for what it’s worth, it can now at least be viewed without feeling nauseaus about most of the terrible big and small decisions they made in this film. Also, at least the intro sequence is now very watchable and actually much cooler without all of Leia’s nitpicking. Now it’s all one united Resistance fighting without inner conflict and that’s much more satisfying to watch. Due to the extreme shortening, the whole movie is much more fast-paced now, at times unfortuantely also rushed due to a lack of usable filler footage.

I like that these things can get uploaded onto the internet, it's great fun.