After the firing of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Ron Howard has been chosen to take over directing the spinoff, Star Wars: Han Solo.
The move comes two days after directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were let go from the movie they had spent over four-and-a-half months directing. Creative differences over style and tone came to a head between the duo and Lawrence Kasdan, with the studio backing the veteran screenwriter.
Howard will meet with the actors to soothe a rattled set and will pore over a rough edit to see what the project has and still needs. The movie was scheduled to shoot for three-and-a-half more weeks, with five weeks of reshoots built into the schedule — the latter a standard procedure on large franchise productions.
The firing of the directing duo sent shockwaves around Hollywood as the movie was about three-quarters through principal photography and the replacement of a director at that stage is near-unprecedented.
