{"id":52374,"date":"2017-01-31T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=52374"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T17:29:52","slug":"standalone-han-solo-film-begins-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/standalone-han-solo-film-begins-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Han First Shot: Standalone Han Solo Film Begins Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to <em>21 Jump Street<\/em> and <em>The LEGO Movie<\/em> directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, to announce the Han Solo spinoff movie&#8217;s first day of production with a pun.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Han<br \/>First<br \/>Shot <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KReR6rgKFT\">pic.twitter.com\/KReR6rgKFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher Miller (@chrizmillr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrizmillr\/status\/826099940254502915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not only are the directors alluding to George Lucas&#8217; often maligned retcon &#8211;\u00a0the confrontation between Han and Greedo in <em>Stars Wars: A New Hope &#8211;<\/em>\u00a0but the working title for the next <em>Star Wars Story<\/em> is Red Cup (as in the ubiquitous plastic &#8220;Solo&#8221; cups you often find at parties). These things definitely give you an idea of the tone Lord and Miller are going for in this film.<\/p>\n<p>The movie stars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2016\/05\/06\/alden-ehrenreich-cast-as-han-solo\/\">Alden Ehrenreich<\/a> as a young Han Solo with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/donald-glover-cast-as-lando-calrissian-in-standalone-han-solo-film\/\">Donald Glover <\/a>as Lando Calrissian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2016\/12\/07\/emilia-clarke-cast-han-solo-star-wars-movie\/\">Emilia Clarke<\/a>\u00a0as a yet-to-be-named character, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2017\/01\/12\/woody-harrelson-cast-han-solo-film\/\">Woody Harrelson<\/a>\u00a0as Solo&#8217;s mentor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Wars: Red Cup<\/em> (still-untitled Han Solo film) is set to hit theaters on May 25, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to 21 Jump Street and The LEGO Movie directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, to announce the Han Solo spinoff movie&#8217;s first day of production with a pun. HanFirstShot pic.twitter.com\/KReR6rgKFT &mdash; Christopher Miller (@chrizmillr) January 30, 2017 Not only are the directors alluding to George Lucas&#8217; often maligned retcon &#8211;\u00a0the confrontation between Han [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,390,389],"tags":[3145,112,373,4875,419,2685,4886],"yst_prominent_words":[7528,7499,6413,7462,7441,7506,7514,5885,7302,7485,7470,5780,5779,7315,5781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52374"}],"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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62453,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52374\/revisions\/62453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52374"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}