Donald Glover is your new Lando Calrissian
October 21, 2016 4:04 PM Subscribe
Confirming months of speculation, the official Star Wars Twitter account has announced that Community and Atlanta star Donald Glover has been cast as smooth-talking space pirate Lando Calrissian in Disney’s upcoming Han Solo film.
This deal is getting better all the time.
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 4:07 PM on October 21, 2016 [59 favorites]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 4:07 PM on October 21, 2016 [59 favorites]
It's one of those castings where you go from Never Thought That to It Can Only Be That in about 3 seconds. So very much sold on this.
posted by DangerIsMyMiddleName at 4:07 PM on October 21, 2016 [18 favorites]
posted by DangerIsMyMiddleName at 4:07 PM on October 21, 2016 [18 favorites]
I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever.
posted by chavenet at 4:08 PM on October 21, 2016 [9 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 4:08 PM on October 21, 2016 [9 favorites]
Now they just need to work a Danny Pudi cameo in and the movie will be perfect.
posted by jeffkramer at 4:08 PM on October 21, 2016 [23 favorites]
posted by jeffkramer at 4:08 PM on October 21, 2016 [23 favorites]
i thought the han solo movie thing was a joke
they are going the marvel route with star wars, aren't they?
posted by Foci for Analysis at 4:11 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
they are going the marvel route with star wars, aren't they?
posted by Foci for Analysis at 4:11 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
AW YISSSSSS
posted by Kitteh at 4:12 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 4:12 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
My emotions! MY EMOTIONS!
posted by tonycpsu at 4:14 PM on October 21, 2016 [13 favorites]
posted by tonycpsu at 4:14 PM on October 21, 2016 [13 favorites]
I admit, I read this at first as Danny Glover, which didn't make any sense. Donald makes much more sense.
posted by hippybear at 4:14 PM on October 21, 2016 [11 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 4:14 PM on October 21, 2016 [11 favorites]
they are going the marvel route with star wars, aren't they?
a) yes, definitely.
b) seems like a good idea to me.
posted by brennen at 4:28 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
a) yes, definitely.
b) seems like a good idea to me.
posted by brennen at 4:28 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
I don't even care about the actor, we're getting more Lando Calrissian.
posted by selfnoise at 4:31 PM on October 21, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by selfnoise at 4:31 PM on October 21, 2016 [8 favorites]
I am happy with this.
Now get Billy Dee in ep 8 or 9 and everything is cool
posted by prize bull octorok at 4:32 PM on October 21, 2016 [6 favorites]
Now get Billy Dee in ep 8 or 9 and everything is cool
posted by prize bull octorok at 4:32 PM on October 21, 2016 [6 favorites]
Now they just need to work a Danny Pudi cameo in and the movie will be perfect.
Lando and Lobot in the morning!
posted by condour75 at 4:35 PM on October 21, 2016 [34 favorites]
Lando and Lobot in the morning!
posted by condour75 at 4:35 PM on October 21, 2016 [34 favorites]
My emotions! My emotions!
posted by synecdoche at 4:45 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by synecdoche at 4:45 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
Couldn't see me in Spiderman, but now I'm spitting venom.
posted by pickinganameismuchharderthanihadanticipated at 4:47 PM on October 21, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by pickinganameismuchharderthanihadanticipated at 4:47 PM on October 21, 2016 [5 favorites]
I have altered your film cast. Pray I do not alter it further.
posted by tobascodagama at 4:49 PM on October 21, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by tobascodagama at 4:49 PM on October 21, 2016 [5 favorites]
Jim Rash would kinda be the best Lobot
posted by jason_steakums at 4:51 PM on October 21, 2016 [13 favorites]
posted by jason_steakums at 4:51 PM on October 21, 2016 [13 favorites]
I read this as Danny Glover initially as in "I'm getting too old for this shit" and I was like WTF and then someone said Donald Glover.
Although if someone ever wants to reboot Ice Pirates Donald Glover and Danny Pudi would be pretty awesome as the leads.
posted by vuron at 4:56 PM on October 21, 2016 [10 favorites]
Although if someone ever wants to reboot Ice Pirates Donald Glover and Danny Pudi would be pretty awesome as the leads.
posted by vuron at 4:56 PM on October 21, 2016 [10 favorites]
It never occurred to me before now that Lando was Space Armenian.
posted by Guy Smiley at 5:01 PM on October 21, 2016 [13 favorites]
posted by Guy Smiley at 5:01 PM on October 21, 2016 [13 favorites]
It never occurred to me before now that Lando was Space Armenian.
More dismantling of the "race is a thing" construct. You can cast across color based on looks in order to produce a look you need to maintain continuity.
posted by hippybear at 5:04 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
More dismantling of the "race is a thing" construct. You can cast across color based on looks in order to produce a look you need to maintain continuity.
posted by hippybear at 5:04 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
But will he get a sweet ass cape?
posted by dinty_moore at 5:17 PM on October 21, 2016 [9 favorites]
posted by dinty_moore at 5:17 PM on October 21, 2016 [9 favorites]
What A Solo Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie Should Be About, According To Ewan McGregor
posted by homunculus at 5:42 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by homunculus at 5:42 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
star wars babies.
posted by ennui.bz at 5:56 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by ennui.bz at 5:56 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
When they said "six seasons and a movie." I wasn't expecting this!
posted by blue_beetle at 5:56 PM on October 21, 2016 [32 favorites]
posted by blue_beetle at 5:56 PM on October 21, 2016 [32 favorites]
When I first saw this headline, I thought it said he had been cast as Han Solo, and I was like "buh?" But then "that's cool". But Lando is cool too.
posted by sevenyearlurk at 6:05 PM on October 21, 2016
posted by sevenyearlurk at 6:05 PM on October 21, 2016
As a person of the Trek persuasion married to a person of the other sensibility, this is TERRIFIC NEWS!
posted by mwhybark at 6:13 PM on October 21, 2016
posted by mwhybark at 6:13 PM on October 21, 2016
"The Young Han Solo movie is totally dumb."
*Donald Glover cast.*
"Bring on the Dumb Young Han Solo movie. Soon please."
posted by MCMikeNamara at 6:20 PM on October 21, 2016 [42 favorites]
*Donald Glover cast.*
"Bring on the Dumb Young Han Solo movie. Soon please."
posted by MCMikeNamara at 6:20 PM on October 21, 2016 [42 favorites]
I admit, I read this at first as Danny Glover, which didn't make any sense. Donald makes much more sense.
posted by hippybear at 7:14 PM on October 21
"I'm gettin' too old for this Sith!"
posted by ZaphodB at 6:20 PM on October 21, 2016 [53 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 7:14 PM on October 21
"I'm gettin' too old for this Sith!"
posted by ZaphodB at 6:20 PM on October 21, 2016 [53 favorites]
oh good, i would hate for there to be any mystery or unexplained circumstances left in star wars
origin movies we can probably expect to see before we die:
origin movies we can probably expect to see before we die:
- Porkins
- Pilot in the Cantina with the Great Sideburns
- Grumpy Bartender
- Third Cantina Band Member From the Left
- Cloud City Citizen Who Really Loves His Ice Cream Maker
- Monotone "Two Fighters Against A Star Destroyer" Guy
- Stormtrooper Who Thought That New BT-16 Was Quite a Thing To See
I keep seeing things about this and why is no one calling it the "solo Han Solo movie" or the "Han Solo solo movie!?"
posted by DyRE at 6:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [11 favorites]
posted by DyRE at 6:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [11 favorites]
But will he get a sweet ass cape?
For a moment, I was thinking "Did Lando really wear an ass-cape?" Then I parsed the sentence more carefully.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [11 favorites]
For a moment, I was thinking "Did Lando really wear an ass-cape?" Then I parsed the sentence more carefully.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [11 favorites]
I read this as Danny Glover initially as in "I'm getting too old for this shit" and I was like WTF and then someone said Donald Glover.
Something to make my fellow Gen-X types feel old: Lethal Weapon was filmed in 1986. Danny "I'm getting too old for this shit" Glover turned forty that summer. Forty. He may have been in his late (late) thirties when he delivered that line.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:47 PM on October 21, 2016 [10 favorites]
Something to make my fellow Gen-X types feel old: Lethal Weapon was filmed in 1986. Danny "I'm getting too old for this shit" Glover turned forty that summer. Forty. He may have been in his late (late) thirties when he delivered that line.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:47 PM on October 21, 2016 [10 favorites]
For a moment, I was thinking "Did Lando really wear an ass-cape?" Then I parsed the sentence more carefully.
No, you're thinking of Kurt Russell in Ass Cape From New York.
posted by arto at 6:49 PM on October 21, 2016 [33 favorites]
No, you're thinking of Kurt Russell in Ass Cape From New York.
posted by arto at 6:49 PM on October 21, 2016 [33 favorites]
they are going the marvel route with star wars, aren't they?
I think the line here is "don't be too proud of this lucrative franchise you've created. The power to make money is insignificant compared to...well, actually this is a pretty compelling business model..."
posted by nubs at 6:52 PM on October 21, 2016 [5 favorites]
I think the line here is "don't be too proud of this lucrative franchise you've created. The power to make money is insignificant compared to...well, actually this is a pretty compelling business model..."
posted by nubs at 6:52 PM on October 21, 2016 [5 favorites]
So _this_ is why he quit Community.
posted by amtho at 6:54 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by amtho at 6:54 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
It would be kinda crazy to give up a part in one of Yahoo Screen Network's top shows just for one movie.
posted by Flashman at 6:58 PM on October 21, 2016 [16 favorites]
posted by Flashman at 6:58 PM on October 21, 2016 [16 favorites]
I am still a bit sad that Spiderman didn't happen for him, but this is definitely making me smile.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 7:10 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 7:10 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
c) because both Marvel and Star Wars are owned by Disney at this point, so of course they are going to take the successful franchise model and try to reapply it.
posted by fings at 7:14 PM on October 21, 2016
posted by fings at 7:14 PM on October 21, 2016
As long as they don't borrow the crossover from Marvel's playbook. Even if Avengers vs Jedi would makes a zillion dollars it probably wouldn't be good cinema
posted by vuron at 7:31 PM on October 21, 2016
posted by vuron at 7:31 PM on October 21, 2016
origin movies we can probably expect to see before we die:
Blue Milk: The Untold Story
posted by Palindromedary at 7:38 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
Blue Milk: The Untold Story
posted by Palindromedary at 7:38 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]
Lord & Miller mention the cape in the press release, so yes for DG in a cape. Also, the guys who made Lego Movie, Clone high, and 21/22 jump street are directing this Han Solo movie. That at least guarantees a little fun.
Lastly: Star Wars EU haters can get over it. New movies can't pollute your precious franchise any more than 40 years of books, comics, and cg television shows have.
posted by sleeping bear at 7:45 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
Lastly: Star Wars EU haters can get over it. New movies can't pollute your precious franchise any more than 40 years of books, comics, and cg television shows have.
posted by sleeping bear at 7:45 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
Childish Landino
posted by schmod at 7:46 PM on October 21, 2016 [38 favorites]
posted by schmod at 7:46 PM on October 21, 2016 [38 favorites]
Han and Lando in the mooooorning
posted by schmod at 7:47 PM on October 21, 2016 [9 favorites]
posted by schmod at 7:47 PM on October 21, 2016 [9 favorites]
!!!!!!!
I always name the catch-all folder on my laptops Rando Calrissian.
posted by mochapickle at 8:00 PM on October 21, 2016 [8 favorites]
I always name the catch-all folder on my laptops Rando Calrissian.
posted by mochapickle at 8:00 PM on October 21, 2016 [8 favorites]
This yearbook image of him has been going around. I've got the feels!
posted by Anonymous at 8:06 PM on October 21, 2016
posted by Anonymous at 8:06 PM on October 21, 2016
why is no one calling it the "solo Han Solo movie" or the "Han Solo solo movie!?"
They've been calling it "the Han solo movie" all along, didn't you notice?
posted by The Tensor at 8:23 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
They've been calling it "the Han solo movie" all along, didn't you notice?
posted by The Tensor at 8:23 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
Cloud City Citizen Who Really Loves His Ice Cream Maker
That was, like the Cloud City computer core. Very helpful keeping it out of Imperial hands. (You'd better believe the nerds have given him a complete backstory.)
posted by Guy Smiley at 8:27 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
That was, like the Cloud City computer core. Very helpful keeping it out of Imperial hands. (You'd better believe the nerds have given him a complete backstory.)
posted by Guy Smiley at 8:27 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
Lethal Weapon was filmed in 1986.
Law And Order: Special Mullet Unit
posted by thelonius at 8:28 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
Law And Order: Special Mullet Unit
posted by thelonius at 8:28 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
That was, like the Cloud City computer core. Very helpful keeping it out of Imperial hands. (You'd better believe the nerds have given him a complete backstory.)
bro that's all decanonized now, it can go back to being an ice cream machine as God (Leigh Brackett) and Irvin Kershner intended
posted by entropicamericana at 8:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
bro that's all decanonized now, it can go back to being an ice cream machine as God (Leigh Brackett) and Irvin Kershner intended
posted by entropicamericana at 8:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
Stormtrooper Who Thought That New BT-16 Was Quite a Thing To See
It's a tragedy. He joined up because he got into some trouble back home (selling deathstix), leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend, who was pretty mad at him for leaving. He's working hard, trying to make something of himself so that when his time is up, he can go back home and do right by her. So, yeah, that BT-16 - he's thinking if he can get trained on that, he's got another good set of skills to take home with him.
Anyways, he's a hard working guy - the service has given him some much needed discipline and education, and he's starting to get back in touch with his girl. It's tentative, but she's at least responding to his video messages and sending some back now, so maybe there's some hope here - in the last one, she let him see his daughter for the first time.
And then this farmboy in a snub fighter comes along...
posted by nubs at 9:15 PM on October 21, 2016 [6 favorites]
It's a tragedy. He joined up because he got into some trouble back home (selling deathstix), leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend, who was pretty mad at him for leaving. He's working hard, trying to make something of himself so that when his time is up, he can go back home and do right by her. So, yeah, that BT-16 - he's thinking if he can get trained on that, he's got another good set of skills to take home with him.
Anyways, he's a hard working guy - the service has given him some much needed discipline and education, and he's starting to get back in touch with his girl. It's tentative, but she's at least responding to his video messages and sending some back now, so maybe there's some hope here - in the last one, she let him see his daughter for the first time.
And then this farmboy in a snub fighter comes along...
posted by nubs at 9:15 PM on October 21, 2016 [6 favorites]
I like the way you think, mochapickle.
My computer's name is Han Solo, and my iPhone and iPad are called Padme and Leia. If my car weren't a girl it'd be Luke (but it's a girl so her name is Lola). All about that Star Wars life up in here.
posted by Hermione Granger at 9:17 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
My computer's name is Han Solo, and my iPhone and iPad are called Padme and Leia. If my car weren't a girl it'd be Luke (but it's a girl so her name is Lola). All about that Star Wars life up in here.
posted by Hermione Granger at 9:17 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
Danny "I'm getting too old for this shit" Glover turned forty that summer. Forty. He may have been in his late (late) thirties when he delivered that line.
As someone in their late 30s, it is fucking apt.
posted by dry white toast at 9:47 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
As someone in their late 30s, it is fucking apt.
posted by dry white toast at 9:47 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
As someone in their late 30s, it is fucking apt.
Damn right. That's where you really start to snap crackle and pop getting up in the morning.
posted by azpenguin at 9:51 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
Damn right. That's where you really start to snap crackle and pop getting up in the morning.
posted by azpenguin at 9:51 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
"The Young Han Solo movie is totally dumb."
*Donald Glover cast.*
"Bring on the Dumb Young Han Solo movie. Soon please."
...Han Yolo?
posted by Kreiger at 10:00 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
*Donald Glover cast.*
"Bring on the Dumb Young Han Solo movie. Soon please."
...Han Yolo?
posted by Kreiger at 10:00 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY NOW
posted by redsparkler at 10:03 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by redsparkler at 10:03 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
Hell yes!
posted by SarahElizaP at 10:17 PM on October 21, 2016
posted by SarahElizaP at 10:17 PM on October 21, 2016
I need help reacting to something
posted by the marble index at 10:18 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by the marble index at 10:18 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
I assume he'll be adopting the same persona as in "Magic Mike." This is good.
posted by stet at 10:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by stet at 10:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
He's fine, but I do find all the 'you know this face, and this face, and this one too' to be really distracting. It's gotten really disappointing in the Marvel movies.
posted by taterpie at 1:31 AM on October 22, 2016
posted by taterpie at 1:31 AM on October 22, 2016
Lastly: Star Wars EU haters ...
Wait wait wait. Are you telling me that the EU is actually the Star Wars world? And Britain is succeeding from the Senate, because the old republic is falling? And Boris Johnson is Jar Jar Binks??? It all fits!!!
posted by the quidnunc kid at 2:20 AM on October 22, 2016 [7 favorites]
Wait wait wait. Are you telling me that the EU is actually the Star Wars world? And Britain is succeeding from the Senate, because the old republic is falling? And Boris Johnson is Jar Jar Binks??? It all fits!!!
posted by the quidnunc kid at 2:20 AM on October 22, 2016 [7 favorites]
Dunno, I always had Dominic Cummings down as Supreme Leader Snoke, in all sorts of ways, and that sort of messes with the timeline.
posted by doop at 4:54 AM on October 22, 2016
posted by doop at 4:54 AM on October 22, 2016
This better not fuck with Atlanta.
posted by enn at 5:52 AM on October 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by enn at 5:52 AM on October 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
Are you telling me that the EU is actually the Star Wars world?
No, that's the other Expanded Universe.
posted by effbot at 5:52 AM on October 22, 2016
No, that's the other Expanded Universe.
posted by effbot at 5:52 AM on October 22, 2016
Okay, 2016, a few more things like this and you and I will be on speaking terms again.
posted by cooker girl at 6:01 AM on October 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by cooker girl at 6:01 AM on October 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
Foci for Analysis: they are going the marvel route with star wars, aren't they?
Yup.
Cinema Blend has the list of upcoming Star Wars movies and release dates, out to 2020 (but things get less certain the farther out you go).
WIRED had the oh-so-chipper article titled You Won’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie in 2015 (with a awesome mural with the option to zoom in to see more detail), with this statement:
posted by filthy light thief at 7:10 AM on October 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
Yup.
Cinema Blend has the list of upcoming Star Wars movies and release dates, out to 2020 (but things get less certain the farther out you go).
WIRED had the oh-so-chipper article titled You Won’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie in 2015 (with a awesome mural with the option to zoom in to see more detail), with this statement:
The company intends to put out a new Star Wars movie every year for as long as people will buy tickets. Let me put it another way: If everything works out for Disney, and if you are (like me) old enough to have been conscious for the first Star Wars film, you will probably not live to see the last one. It’s the forever franchise.In short, the idea is to release a "core" movie on odd years [Star Wars: Episode (n)], and side-story movies in even years.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:10 AM on October 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
My fear is that Star Wars will turn out like Star Trek: a franchise essentially killed off when the people in charge delved too deep.
But, until then, I'll enjoy the ride.
posted by steady-state strawberry at 8:32 AM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
But, until then, I'll enjoy the ride.
posted by steady-state strawberry at 8:32 AM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
My fear is that Star Wars will turn out like Star Trek: a franchise essentially killed off when the people in charge delved too deep.
Stripmine it until it's unprofitable. Remember when Star Wars fans used to laugh at Trekkies and their arcane levels of canon, technical manuals, and obsessive minutia? Now our failure is complete.
posted by entropicamericana at 8:48 AM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Stripmine it until it's unprofitable. Remember when Star Wars fans used to laugh at Trekkies and their arcane levels of canon, technical manuals, and obsessive minutia? Now our failure is complete.
posted by entropicamericana at 8:48 AM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
entropicamericana: Remember when Star Wars fans used to laugh at Trekkies and their arcane levels of canon, technical manuals, and obsessive minutia? Now our failure is complete.
Depends on what you consider to be the Star Wars cannon. If you're looking at the three original trilogy, or even the six movies, that's a limited universe. Expand it to include the hundreds(?) of books, 163 television episodes and counting (between Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels), decades of comics, and a galaxy of video games, and those universes are probably pretty similar in scope.
If you're looking for a failure point, to back to 2014, when Star Wars got re-centered, with everything prior was considered "Star Wars Legends," so everything after could be managed in a more cohesive fashion.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:44 AM on October 22, 2016
Depends on what you consider to be the Star Wars cannon. If you're looking at the three original trilogy, or even the six movies, that's a limited universe. Expand it to include the hundreds(?) of books, 163 television episodes and counting (between Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels), decades of comics, and a galaxy of video games, and those universes are probably pretty similar in scope.
If you're looking for a failure point, to back to 2014, when Star Wars got re-centered, with everything prior was considered "Star Wars Legends," so everything after could be managed in a more cohesive fashion.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:44 AM on October 22, 2016
THE ONLY DONALD AMERICA NEEDS
posted by Sys Rq at 12:02 PM on October 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by Sys Rq at 12:02 PM on October 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
I mean, Star Wars even had the technical manuals, too. And every third EU story was about how, like, the weird random alien that was only on screen for one shot of the cantina scene was secretly Darth Vader's orderly's cousin's butler or something.
posted by tobascodagama at 12:18 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by tobascodagama at 12:18 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Every fandom was boringly obsessive in the 90s, I think is my point.
posted by tobascodagama at 12:20 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by tobascodagama at 12:20 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
I also was about to be WHAT IS THIS SHIT before the Donny/Donald was explained above.
posted by corb at 3:59 PM on October 22, 2016
posted by corb at 3:59 PM on October 22, 2016
I know that MetaFilter is pretty white and not-from-the-southeastern-US, but it seems like not enough of y'all are watching Atlanta.
posted by hydropsyche at 5:04 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by hydropsyche at 5:04 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
I admit, I read this at first as Danny Glover, which didn't make any sense. Donald makes much more sense.
All this talk about Danny made me Google him to see what he's up to these days. When I clicked on the photos, Google helpfully brought up some associated searches, like "movies", "wife", and "son". The last one is of course a bunch of photos of Donald Glover. Plus a quote: "Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time."
posted by effbot at 5:17 PM on October 22, 2016 [16 favorites]
All this talk about Danny made me Google him to see what he's up to these days. When I clicked on the photos, Google helpfully brought up some associated searches, like "movies", "wife", and "son". The last one is of course a bunch of photos of Donald Glover. Plus a quote: "Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time."
posted by effbot at 5:17 PM on October 22, 2016 [16 favorites]
this is fine
posted by skippyhacker at 9:10 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by skippyhacker at 9:10 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Yeah. Unsure. Ewan McGregor in a film noir Jedi Detective movie, hell yes, but I kinda prefer my Han Solo to stay the mysterious type.
Plus, I like the idea he was a lot more immoral before Star Wars (vis a vis shooting-firstness) and I doubt Disney will support that. He will be much more unabashedly good, I fear.
posted by rokusan at 1:18 PM on October 23, 2016
Plus, I like the idea he was a lot more immoral before Star Wars (vis a vis shooting-firstness) and I doubt Disney will support that. He will be much more unabashedly good, I fear.
posted by rokusan at 1:18 PM on October 23, 2016
Any Disney-Lucasfilm Han Solo origin movie will feature him being an immoral lout, probably raised on the streets somehow, and him meeting Chewbacca and how their lives get entangled through some mission or quest of some sort, and the film will somehow reach an emotional climax when Solo wins the Millennium Falcon from Lando during a game of cards, but the movie will require one final battle wherein they almost can't get the Falcon to function properly until Han, out of frustration, bangs on some part of the cockpit with his fist and suddenly they are saved and off to their life of Grey Hat adventures until they have a layover on Tatooine which changes things for them forever.
posted by hippybear at 9:58 AM on October 24, 2016
posted by hippybear at 9:58 AM on October 24, 2016
Han and Chewy on their first date and it all goes wrong.
posted by Artw at 10:10 AM on October 24, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 10:10 AM on October 24, 2016 [2 favorites]
There's basically zero chance we get out of this movie without learning why Chewie owes Han a life debt. Slightly higher but still pretty damned low chance that it isn't something really boring and anticlimactic.
posted by tobascodagama at 1:50 PM on October 24, 2016
posted by tobascodagama at 1:50 PM on October 24, 2016
The vast majority of these things will be in the movie because prequels are uniformly terrible:
- Explanation for the life debt.
- Han's acquisition of the Millennium Falcon.
- Early rivalry between Lando and Han becomes friendship.
- ...probably at the Battle of Tanab.
- Han dumping a spice shipment.
- The Kessel Run. (Bonus awful points awarded if the parsec thing is explained in a laborious way like in the old EU.)
- Boba Fett, probably.
- Greedo, because he had been looking forward to "this" for a long time.
- Han picking up a vest somewhere.
Han picking up a vest somewhere.
And then Chewie groans at him and then he puts it back down and says, "You're right, that would look ridiculous on me."
posted by tobascodagama at 2:25 PM on October 24, 2016 [2 favorites]
And then Chewie groans at him and then he puts it back down and says, "You're right, that would look ridiculous on me."
posted by tobascodagama at 2:25 PM on October 24, 2016 [2 favorites]
Borys Kit (Hollywood Reporter): "A couple of sources tell me the #HanSolo spin-off will tell how Lando Calrissien lost the Millennium Falcon to Han."
posted by effbot at 4:55 PM on October 24, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by effbot at 4:55 PM on October 24, 2016 [1 favorite]
We found the noodles, repeat, we found the noodles (warning: TVTropes).
posted by tobascodagama at 5:10 PM on October 24, 2016
posted by tobascodagama at 5:10 PM on October 24, 2016
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