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ralfy · Mission Specialist Joined: 23 Sep 2014 Posts: 473

"Donald Glover will play a young Lando Calrissian in the Han Solo movie"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/10/21/donald-glover-lando-calrissian-han-solo-standalone/92532028/

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:56 pm Post subject:

Korinaz has awarded me the honor of posting the latest Movie Facts of the Day Youtube video. Very Happy

Korinaz sent me a PM with the link to the video and asked me to post it. The PM ended with this cryptic message.

"Watch it 'til the end. A little gift from the production!"
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Custer · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:19 am Post subject:

Impressive - I liked the way they included a few little typing errors in their subtitles, no doubt in a subtle tribute to us here. Very Happy

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:07 am Post subject:

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Heeeeey, who makes tipo's hear? Knot me! Shocked

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 9:36 pm Post subject:

At YouTube™ there is a virtual tour of the Millenium Falcon Solo: A Star Wars Story by none other than Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover) himself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Cyofu6hLE
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 1:00 pm Post subject:

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Good lord, that set of the Falcon is absolutely GORGEOUS! I loved the designs of every part we saw. And it was great to see it all so clean!

Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewy were terrible housekeepers! Shocked

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Custer · Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 1:19 pm Post subject:

And the movie is only about three weeks away now... with Deadpool 2 to keep us going before that! Very Happy

Alexa has just kindly told me a Star Wars joke. "What's Yoda's favourite dinosaur?" To which the answer is "A Duoceratops - there is no tri!" Surprised

orzel-w · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 1865

ralfy · Mission Specialist Joined: 23 Sep 2014 Posts: 473

The movie's average. I suppose they could have worked more on the writing, but I can't provide more details because I've forgotten much of the film.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:30 pm Post subject:

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Nice BTS "making of . . . " featurette from the Blu-ray.
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___SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY | All Release Bonus Features

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Gord Green · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:07 am Post subject:

The first time I saw this I really didn't care for it.

Recently I watched it again on Netflix and my appreciation of it went up. Don't expect it to be as good as the original trilogy, but it gave a fairly interesting look into the making of Han Solo and Chewbacca.

I'd have to give it a solid C+. Still much better than the prequels.
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:57 pm Post subject:

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It was great to see the Millennium Falcon with a clean and beautiful interior in this movie. Very Happy

But the Star Wars tradition of frequently showing starship and other kinds of vehicles which look old, beat up, and neglected has never appealed to me. Sad

Add to this the fact the the Millennium Falcon was plumb ugly on the day it was first built! We all know that it was designed by the original Star Wars crew to look ungainly and unappealing.

But I can't help wishing that we could see it just once in new condition! It wouldn't help much, but I still keep wishing I could see it looking clean and new.

Well, anyway, IMDB has over 200 trivia items for this production. I picked a few of them worth sharing — the first of which relates to my comment about the beautiful interior of the Millennium Falcon. Very Happy

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[size=20]~ The interior Millennium Falcon set on C stage took three months to build. It is the largest interior Falcon set ever made on any Star Wars film due to the addition of new areas.

Note from me: I'm sure they destroyed it after the movie was made. Hollywood is bad about doling that.

~ Harrison Ford revealed that he's seen the movie and thinks it's "phenomenal", but skipped out on the premiere with the rest of the cast because he didn't want to steal Alden Ehrenreich's moment of glory.

Note from me: Mr. Ford is a class act. Very Happy

~ Han speaks to Chewbacca in the Wookiee language. It's the first time a non-Wookiee speaks the language, and the first time the language is translated on-screen with subtitles.

Note from me: The scene in which Han and Chewy first meet (and the scenes in the rest of the movie) are packed with moments which establish the strong relation between these two.

~ L3-37 was achieved through a combination of practical and computer effects. Phoebe Waller-Bridge wore a costume that consisted of the droid's head, chest, legs, and arms, with a green skintight suit underneath. The green suit was digitally removed in post-production and replaced with mechanical parts, such as cables and wires.

Note from me: While watching this movie recently I was dumbfounded by how this droid was created. It was obviously not an actor in a suit, nor did is seem like pure CGI. The explanation above clears up the matter for me . . . but the manner in which this miracle was achieved is still well over my head. Sad

~ Woody Harrelson was picked over Christian Bale as Han's mentor.

Note from me: Woody nails this role masterfully! Very Happy

~ The holochess game is animated the same way as it was done in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977): with stop motion animation.

Note from me: Amazing. I assumed that it was CGI, designed to look like stop motion — which would be easy to do.

~ During an interview on The Graham Norton Show (2007), Phoebe Waller-Bridge said that prior to her casting, she had never seen a Star Wars movie, and didn't know what a droid was. She decided to play L3-37 as a human in her audition.

When one of the directors asked her if she could be more "droid-y" while making a mechanical hand gesture, she deduced that droids are robots. Although the casting directors asked her to try it again, they liked her original interpretation of the character, and gave her the part.

Note from me: Excuse me, but what kind of actor goes into a audition for a Star Wars movie without bothering to every watch a single one of the movies? Shocked

~ Han's speeder was inspired by the seventies aesthetic and was modeled after Dodge Chargers and Chevy Malibus.

Note from me: Sorry, but I think this is bogus. The speeder was just a rectangular prism with none of the beautiful design features of the Dodge Charger — which I owned one of in the 1970s. It looked like this . . . right down to the color.

~ When Han and Qi'ra kiss aboard the Millennium Falcon, they are in the same room where Han and Leia kiss in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

Note from me: If somebody told me I could kiss Emilia Clark and get paid for it, I'd tell them I'd do it for free!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)