Walt Disney Studios Home
Entertainment is out front — and early — with the announcement this past week
that director Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story will be
making its way to the home entertainment arena on Sept. 25.
The ARR is a leisurely
123 days and ticket sales, despite being $211.9 million, were considered
unworthy of a Star Wars film.
Planned for release are
stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray editions as well as a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo
Pack.
This production-plagued
project saw the original directing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (who
also teamed for 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, The Lego Movie, etc.) fired for
deviating from Lawrence Kasdan’s script (who also wrote Star Wars: The Force Awakens,
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of
the Jedi) and replaced by Ron Howard (whose working relationship with
George Lucas dates back to American Graffiti).
Once Ron Howard was
onboard, 70 percent of the film was reshot and Alden Ehrenreich (Blue
Jasmine, Beautiful Creatures, etc.) was assigned an acting coach to
work on his Han Solo presentation.
At least Walt Disney
Studios realized in the aftermath of this disaster that they were pushing the
franchise too fast and put future plans for additional one-off stories on
hold. The conclusion of the nine-film
cycle envisioned by George Lucas will arrive in theatres during the Christmas
season next year with J.J. Abrams directing … actual filming is set to begin
shortly.
As to bonus features,
there are eight deleted and/or extended scenes, a roundtable session with
filmmaker Ron Howard and members of the cast titled “Solo: The Director and
Cast Roundtable” (this appears to be in lieu of a commentary track) and eight production
featurettes — “Team Chewie,” “Kasdan on Kasdan,” “Remaking the Millennium
Falcon,” “Escape from Corellia,” “The Train Heist,” “Becoming a Droid: L3-37,”
“Scoundrels, Droids, Creatures and Cards: Welcome to Fort Ypso” and “Into the
Maelstrom: The Kessel Run.”
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