Disney has been looking for someone strong enough to pull the ears of a Gundark to head their new Han Solo origin film set as part of the Star Wars anthology series and it looks like they have found not one, but two directors for the movie.
Disney announced Tuesday that Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, the duo behind “The Lego Movie,” will direct a feature about Han Solo’s life before “Star Wars,” slated to hit theaters in 2018. The movie’s story will explore how young Han Solo became the smuggler and thief whom Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi first encountered in the cantina at Mos Eisley.
Written by Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon, the film will detail the events that led to Solo becoming the smuggler we first meet in the Mos Eisley cantina on Tattooine. Kasdan has written for Star Wars before, having penned the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and the upcoming The Force Awakens.
Disney, which bought LucasFilm in 2012 for $4 billion, confirmed the movie, in a statement with comments from the directors:
“We pledge ourselves to be faithful stewards of these characters who mean so much to us.”
The Han Solo movie will be part of a standalone anthology series, the first of which, Rogue One, comes out in 2016. Separately, the first film in the new trilogy, Episode VII: The Force Awakens, comes out in December of this year.
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