Donald Glover is officially a young Lando Calrissian!
Lucasfilm announced today that Donald Glover, an acclaimed actor, award-winning writer, and Grammy-nominated artist, will be playing the part of Lando Calrissian in the still-untitled Han Solo Star Wars film, helmed by directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Glover will join Alden Ehrenreich — previously cast as Han Solo — in bringing two iconic Star Wars characters back to the big screen, but at a time in their lives previously unexplored. This new film depicts Lando in his formative years as a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxy’s underworld — years before the events involving Han, Leia, and Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back and his rise to Rebel hero in Return of the Jedi.
“We’re so lucky to have an artist as talented as Donald join us,” said Lord and Miller. “These are big shoes to fill, and an even bigger cape, and this one fits him perfectly, which will save us money on alterations. Also, we’d like to publicly apologize to Donald for ruining Comic-Con for him forever.”
Glover is best known for creating and starring in the critically acclaimed FX series Atlanta (which had the highest premiere numbers for any basic cable comedy show since 2013), as well as for starring in four seasons of the show Community, and for his Grammy-nominated album Because the Internet, performed under the name Childish Gambino. In addition, Glover appeared in the Academy Award-nominated The Martian, and will be seen in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming.
The untitled Han Solo movie is set for release in 2018.
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ has become the first Star Wars film to ever make a loss within its second week in theatres, box office data reveals.
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Box office estimates put #SoloAStarWarsStory's 2nd domestic weekend at just $29.3M, a massive drop of 65.3%. Internationally, the film has made only $115.3M to date. With a reported budget of over $250M, it is officially the first Star Wars movie to flop.
Originally Posted by oaklandhater:
with solo crashing at the box office.
How long do you guys think it will take for Kathleen kennedy to be shitcanned ?
I'm guessing when episode 9 fails to reach 1 billion.
Bob iger must be pissed Disney just spent a mint updating their parks with Starwars shit.
Thanks Rian wish I could be there to see your face when your new movies get dumped in the trash can.
Johnson may have single handedly killed the franchise. There is no reason to expect any spinoff to outperform Solo for starters. 9 would have to be on Avengers 3 type level to recover all the lost enthusiasm. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy:
Johnson may have single handedly killed the franchise. There is no reason to expect any spinoff to outperform Solo for starters. 9 would have to be on Avengers 3 type level to recover all the lost enthusiasm.
Yeah never as one man done so much damage to a franchise.
they really need to fire KK and Rian and start building over on a new franchise with an overarching story.
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In one of the biggest box-office surprises in recent times, Solo is badly underperforming and will become the first of the Star Wars movies made by Disney and Lucasfilm to lose money.
Wall Street analyst Barton Crockett says Solo will lose more than $50 million. Industry financing souces, however, say that figure could come in at $80 million or higher, although no one knows the exact terms of Disney's deals for home entertainment and television, among other ancillary revenues.
Solo, directed by Ron Howard, isn't likely to gross much more than $400 million globally against a budget of at least $250 million and a major multimillion-dollar marketing spend. The movie lost major altitude in its second weekend of play to finish Sunday with a domestic total of $148.9 million and global cume of $264.2 million.
Originally Posted by Beef Supreme:
How do they fuck up a license to print money like star wars?
At this rate the next movie will be called Star Wars: Chapter Eleven.
I don't think they fucked it up. Solo was a good movie.
People just finally have Star Wars saturation. The general public didn't need another Star Wars movie six months after the last one, and so they're just not that interested.
It's a shame because The Last Jedi and Solo have both received good reviews. (91% and 71% respectively).
So, this isn't a Phantom Menace/Attack of the Clones disaster. But those films made vastly more amounts of money because Star Wars was a rarer commodity at the time.
Lucasfilm and Disney may have miscalculated on releasing the anthology films at the same time as the main saga films. Solo probably should have been pushed back to December like Rogue One. [Reply]
The whole family is holding out for Solo to be released on Netflix and It's not like we're looking forward to it.
It's a sad state of affairs for this franchise. [Reply]
