# Han Solo prequel planned **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607 "2015-07-08T19:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/1 "2015-07-08T19:20:00Z")
> **['Star Wars' prequel: Han Solo movie to be directed by 'Lego Movie' team | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/07/entertainment/star-wars-han-solo-prequel-movie-feat/index.html)** > > Christopher Miller and Phil Lord will direct a movie about Han Solo’s life before “Star Wars,” slated to hit theaters in 2018. I have a bad feeling about this… ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/2 "2015-07-08T19:31:45Z")
I hope someone paid the Kaminoans to clone Harrison Ford about 20 years ago. Otherwise the whining about whoever gets cast will resonate throughout the galaxy for a long long time. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/3 "2015-07-08T19:36:48Z")
$20 on Chris Pratt. I was a big fan of the old Brian Daley Han Solo novels (as a kid I read them over and over), but I doubt they’ll go to that source. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/4 "2015-07-08T19:54:55Z")
I thought Chris Pratt too. But I dunno if his head is square enough. But everybody loves Chris Pratt and everybody loves(ed?) Harrison Ford so they got that going for them. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/5 "2015-07-08T20:09:03Z")
River Phoenix! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/6 "2015-07-08T20:14:56Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > $20 on Chris Pratt. > > I was a big fan of the old Brian Daley Han Solo novels (as a kid I read them over and over), but I doubt they’ll go to that source. Yeah, don’t read those again as an adult. They didn’t age particularly well, IMHO. Though Bollux & Blue Max remained pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/7 "2015-07-08T20:35:50Z")
Mebbe Bradley Cooper…? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/8 "2015-07-08T20:51:07Z")
To be honest, the only actor that I can think of who has played a properly smug, misogynistic a-hole in a leading role, since the 80s, is Vin Diesel (e.g., in XxX). That style of character has basically been killed off, due to the misogyny. I’m not sure whether it’s a character that can actually be brought back, as originally portrayed, in modern cinema. They would have to change him. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/9 "2015-07-08T21:05:16Z")
As long as they cast someone who is properly scruffy-looking. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/10 "2015-07-08T21:09:31Z")
If its Shia Labeouf , I am officially going to report George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy to the ICC. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/11 "2015-07-08T21:16:08Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > To be honest, the only actor that I can think of who has played a properly smug, misogynistic a-hole in a leading role, since the 80s, is Vin Diesel (e.g., in XxX). How was Han Solo a misogynist? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/12 "2015-07-08T21:20:33Z")
Nathan Fillion. Oh wait, he already did. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/13 "2015-07-08T21:26:38Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > $20 on Chris Pratt. How “pre” is this prequel going to be? If it’s more than a few years prior to the OT, then Pratt’s too old. I think he’s already older than Ford was in the first movie. I think a Han Solo prequel is a bad idea, only partly because of the inevitable comparisons to Ford. I think the real strength of the Star Wars franchise is the “world building” that has been done. The SW universe feels real and lived in. It has depth and history. I’d really rather see new characters in that universe than continuously revisiting the Skywalkers, Solos, et al. There’s no reason they couldn’t do a movie starring some new character of a similar “scoundrel” type as Solo. He/she wouldn’t have to be locked into the timeline or history of Han. I know they do have a movie planned that is supposed to be about a new character, and it runs parallel to some of the events of the OT. I’m more interested in that than The Young Han Solo Chronicles. But, hey, maybe Shia LeBeouf is available. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/14 "2015-07-08T21:45:28Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > How was Han Solo a misogynist? 😕 I’d have to go back and rewatch the original movies. Maybe I’m mixing Indiana Jones and Han Solo, but to me they always seemed like the same character, calling every other woman “honey”, mansplaining things to the woman, etc. That Harrison Ford was able to pull it off is probably the source of his success. Many other actors would have been done in by trying to say similar lines. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/15 "2015-07-08T22:17:01Z")
A Star Wars prequel? How could THAT go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/16 "2015-07-08T22:28:20Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > A Star Wars prequel? How could THAT go wrong? Have it be Solo’s first day of kindergarden. ---
**Author:** ![stosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@stosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stosh)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/17 "2015-07-08T22:33:54Z")
I’m more concerned with who’s going to write it than who’s going to star in it. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/18 "2015-07-08T22:50:11Z")
I saw an article suggesting a couple of twenty-something actors for this (e.g., Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort). Chris Pratt is too old, although I could see him in an Indiana Jones reboot. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/19 "2015-07-08T22:52:52Z")
Chris Pratt can’t be in everything! It should be Jennifer Lawrence. Actually, [this guy](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=anthony+ingruber&ie=UTF-8), who played young Harrison Ford in a recent movie, is the fan’s choice. And if I was Kathleen Kennedy, I’d give him a real shot, with a bit of acting coaching and similar support. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/20 "2015-07-08T23:52:28Z")
The opening scene will probably be Greedo shooting at Han. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607.md?page=2)