{"id":33632,"date":"2015-12-02T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=33632"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:18:13","slug":"han-solo-spinoff-film-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/han-solo-spinoff-film-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm Has Already Seen Over 2,500 Auditions for the Young Han Solo Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Star+Wars&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em><\/a> spin-off film, centered around a young Han Solo, is more than two years away, pre-production has already begun.<\/p>\n<p>What does that entail? Well, for one thing, finding the actor who will play the coveted role.<\/p>\n<p>Some think it&#8217;s the widest casting call ever, and based on <em>The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/who-will-play-han-solo-844956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findings<\/a>, that&#8217;s probably true. According to the article, more than 2,500 actors have auditioned for the role.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve either met with casting director Jeanne McCarthy or sent tapes in.<\/p>\n<p>With such a large pool, there are plenty of unknowns but some of the more famous names to audition have been: Dave Franco (<em>21 Jump Street<\/em>), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (<em>Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/em>, Miles Teller (<em>Whiplash<\/em>), Chandler Riggs (<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>), Tom Felton (<em>Harry Potter<\/em>), and Rami Malek (<em>Mr. Robot<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>One agent is calling this &#8220;the easiest movie to audition for&#8221; because &#8220;they are seeing everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The film isn&#8217;t set to start shooting until January 2017, so there&#8217;s plenty of time, but this is probably one of the most pressured casting decisions Hollywood&#8217;s had to make in the last several years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the casting team, they&#8217;re looking for someone who somewhat resembles a young Ford (although they don&#8217;t have to be American) and can pull off humor, charm, and action. They&#8217;ve even asked some comedians to audition.<\/p>\n<p>The film is slated for a May 25, 2018 release with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller directing. Lawrence and Jon Kasdan are writing the script.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you hope will play young Han Solo? Tell us your choices in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/who-will-play-han-solo-844956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the second Star Wars spin-off film, centered around a young Han Solo, is more than two years away, pre-production has already begun. What does that entail? Well, for one thing, finding the actor who will play the coveted role. Some think it&#8217;s the widest casting call ever, and based on The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s findings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,390,389],"tags":[2690,3145,112,373,1073,2691,419],"yst_prominent_words":[8617,11834,27577,7487,6413,7462,7441,7666,7480,7470,13434,10686,7456,7446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64494,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33632\/revisions\/64494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33632"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}