In the new Star Wars spinoff film “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” Alden Ehrenreich plays a younger version of Harrison Ford’s in an adventure set years before the events of the original trilogy. The movie is directed by Ron Howard, who stepped in after the original directors, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, were fired midway through production. The film chronicles Solo’s first encounters with Chewbacca, the Millennium Falcon and Lando Calrissian, who is played in “Solo” by actor-writer-musician Donald Glover.
However, the negativity surrounding the Star Wars franchise seems to be growing. In a recent interview, Solo actors Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover address the negativity and talk about how they handle it. The short answer is, they don’t read anything online. Ehrenreich tells L.A. Times.
I avoided it like the plague. It can be so destructive, and it’s not really relevant to what we’re doing. You don’t have any control over that. George Lucas said once in an interview, ‘If you don’t read reviews, they don’t exist.’ And it’s true. Then you can still have a nice day and go to the park and you don’t have to sit there going, ‘Maybe that guy is right – maybe I shouldn’t have moved my ear in that scene like that.’
Glover went on to talk about how the reactions to most things on the internet fit into only one of two categories.
Especially on the Internet. The Internet is like a one and zero, like computer talk – things are either hot or cold. Even someone saying, ‘Guys, Solo is going to be the best movie ever!’ – even that is toxic. Everything has become a popularity contest on some level.
Fan concern was at an all-time high when original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller departed the project last summer. There was uncertainty over what that meant for the final product. Some fans even took issue with the movie existing in the first place. Many claimed that it was a movie that didn’t need to happen.
Fans will get to cast their own judgment upon the movie as it will drop in cinemas on May 24.
Source: L.A. Times
