Based on (my opinion of) Marvel and new Star Wars movies so far, I think Disney has shown that it’s a quality control machine, so I’d bet that at least it will be decent (I think the worst MCU movies have been at least okay, and I’ve liked all 3 of the new Star Wars movies quite a bit).
Yeah, I think it’s more likely to be at least decent than to suck outright.
Not that trailers are always a great way to judge the movie.
“Rogue One” was pretty good. “The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi” were pretty good. This has a pretty good chance of being good.
Looks cool. I’m hopeful!
Apparently the Kessel Run involved tentacles.
Cool.
It seems pretty damn insensitive to wear a fur coat in front a of a Wookiee.
What kind of leather do you think Chewie’s bandoleer is made of?
I was under the impression that Han Solo had served as an Imperial pilot before striking out as an underworld smuggler. The voice over in the trailer says he “got kicked out of the flight academy”, though, implying that he didn’t complete the training (if the academy they’re referring to is the same Imperial academy that Luke wants to join in the first Star Wars.) It would have been cool to see a brief glimpse of Solo as a TIE Fighter pilot, displaying some camaraderie with other pilots, humanizing the TIE pilots a little bit…they’re maybe the only people in the Star Wars movies that never got any exposition at all. But they should. It’s a skilled job that people obviously have to train for; it can’t just be done by robots. And I have to assume the guys who fly them are officers, not conscripts…it would be cool to get a peek at that little corner of the Imperial world, after seeing SO much of their Rebel counterparts.
I’m expecting Fan Service Palooza. The entire movie is going to be things that finish the sentence “YOU GET TO SEE WHEN HAN FIRST [BLANK]!”
My guess is that the people who’ll complain about there being too much fanservice in Solo will be the exact same people who complained about there being too little fanservice in TLG.
I wholeheartedly agree - well said.
What is TLG?
My mistake. There’s, um, no ‘J’ in Hebrew. So I put a ‘G’ instead? Sound plausable?
the idea of him being an imperial pilot was that in a movie or a book? If it’s in a book then I doubt they care about that since most movie fans have never read the books .
Never tell me the odds.
ISTR that mention of it goes all the way back to Brian Daley’s trilogy of Han Solo novels from the late 1970s, and it’d been an established part of Han’s canon ever since.
But, as has been shown over the past few years under Disney, any “canon” that isn’t directly from the movies, TV series, or recent comic books really isn’t seen as canonical any more.
Direct link to teaser trailer: Solo: A Star Wars Story Official Teaser - YouTube
“It’s fine - we’re fine”
Brian
The Lonely Gigolo, which Alessan tacitly referred to, is a little known Lucasfilm, Ltd. television production in late 1979 about a disgraced Jedi in training and aging male prostitute sitting to the right of Chewie and Obi-Wan at the Mos Eisley Cantina which actually features the first appearance of Jar-Jar Binks in a surprisingly dramatic role as an Imperial toll taker on the official route to Kessel, and a cameo by Jimmie Walker as an early characterization of what would become Lando Calrissian promoting Ovaltine malted milk (“Works on a dime!”). The basic story is that the eponymous hero, whose name is only learned in the end (no spoilers, but he is intimately related to the Solos, Skywalkers, and a family of intersex Bothans), has to escort a reptile princess to Alderaan in time for a very prestigious political council/orgy, and the events that occur on their wayward travels. The story is actually told from multiple viewpoints, each with a substantially different interpretation of events based upon their own interests and prejudices, with with the main character making the final existential declaration, “It’s humanoid to lie. Most of the time we can’t even be honest with ourselves,” only to be surprised by the compassion shown by Jar-Jar in taking in a small janitorimech that had been abandoned by its owner.
Sadly, after the poorly received Star Wars Holiday Special, the budget for The Lonely Gigolo was slashed and all of the actors playing the main characters backed out, refusing to work for literal peanuts. Even a highly stoned Carrie Fisher was cognizant enough to refuse to appear, claiming that she had a prior commitment to do some coke with John Belushi in the Paramount back lot. The entire forty-seven minute episode was filmed for under $50,000 and granted in perpetuity to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as a tax writeoff. CPB distributed it to three PBS stations in Mason City, IA, Eagle Butte, SD and Las Cruces, NM as a trial run where it was broken into sixty second segments and played in place of Emergency Broadcast System announcements. Because the show was never broadcast in its entirety and only in piecemeal segments at unexpected intervals, no one has ever seen more than seven or eight minutes of the entire show, and in 1981, following the success of The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas successfully litigated in FISA court to have all tapes confiscated by the United States Postal Inspection Service External Crime & Violent Crime Teams under special provisions of the Comstock Act.
Rumors of fragments of the film have floated for years at science fiction conventions and on the alt.binaries.starwars Usenet group, but after the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act all references to it in the rec.arts.Sf.starwars.misc Frequently Asked Questions (RASSM FAQ) were deleted upon pain of prosecution and deportation to an Eastern European ‘black site’ by person or persons involved in the preservation, reproduction, distribution, sale, or transmission of the video in whole or in part, including previews, clips, memes, or quoted dialogue, making it the only Star Wars property that George Lucas has been able to comprehensively expunge from the public consciousness. (There is also arguably the elimination of Ewok-Wookie slash fiction that appeared on various BITNET Listservs in the years 1982 through 1987 that Lucas had a team of hackers eliminate in the earliest known instance of a targeted computer worm, but there are rumors that several sysadmins from the era have maintained private offline copies that have been used to blackmail Lucasfilm into giving all the prequel villain characters ridiculous names, which does make more sense than the official story that Lucas permitted his children to name characters in a multi-billion dollar franchise property.)
I had a point when I began all this but it has since escaped like rebel scum from an Imperial trash compactor.
Stranger
Superb.