The first ostensibly female droid to have a featured role in a Star Wars movie (“like you’d be able to find it!,” she wisecracks to someone looking for her off switch), and easily the most exciting droid to be introduced to the franchise since BB-8, 元 shows up and blows things wide open, like a blast from the Death Star detonating inside Alderaan’s core. Every scene makes the galaxy a little smaller. It’s the kind of connect-the-dots storytelling that makes each moment feel like it’s being crossed off a checklist - the kind of context that doesn’t enrich the Star Wars universe so much as it paves over the empty spaces that people once filled with their daydreams. The plot doesn’t make room for the fan service, so much as the fan service makes room for the plot. It’s one thing to wink at the fans, but “Solo” twitches at them uncontrollably. Read More: ‘Solo’: Successful Prequel or Proof that ‘Star Wars’ Spin-Offs Should Go Extinct? And of course we see the moment when our hero sits across from Lando Calrissian for a fateful game of Sabacc. There’s the bit where Han gets his blaster. There’s the extended sequence where he meets Chewbacca for the first time (and we learn how a human can talk to a Wookiee, even though the explanation leaves us with more questions than answers). There’s the scene where Han gets his last name. One cutaway shot of Han’s lucky dice is all it takes to give you a bad feeling about this, and it’s almost impressive how consistently the film validates that premonition.
Whereas “Rogue One” at least had the courtesy to wait a little while before preying on the past - zombie Peter Cushing was literally a dead giveaway of the film’s true intentions - “Solo” leaps towards fan service at light speed. The latest salvo in Disney’s ongoing campaign to canonize every interstitial plot detail that George Lucas’ original trilogy left to the imagination (and convert them all into cold hard cash), this new “ Star Wars Story” is hamstrung by the saga’s pre-existing mythos from the moment it starts. Not crazy about the name, though.The first hour of “Solo” is pretty damn bleak. In 2008, Billy Dee Williams, in reprising his character Lando Calrissian for the Cartoon Network satire Robot Chicken, said: “I have to say, Boba, this is one beauty of a ship. The Slave 1 name has been the subject of commentary for some time. Not even #disney can or will change that. And I think that’s a world we should all live in harmony and peace.”Īs for the Boba Fett ship name change, there was some backlash on social media from those who do not like franchise alterations, which included Mark Anthony Austin, one of several actors who played the bounty hunter character in the original trilogy. And we seek to have the content that we make reflective of the rich diversity of the world we live in. CEO Bob Chapek said of the firing that Disney stands “for values that are universal: Values of respect, values of decency, values of integrity and values of inclusion.
ILM Plans Expansion With Virtual Production Stage in Vancouverĭisney has taken several steps to rebrand or alter a number of products and theme park attractions after criticism over dated and racist stereotypes, such as an overhaul of the Splash Mountain and Jungle Cruise rides.Īnd Mandalorian star Gina Carano was fired in February over controversial social media posts, with Lucasfilm saying at the time that “her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.” The Lego Boba Fett Starship goes on sale Aug. Neither Disney nor Lego responded to a request for additional comment. Jens Kronvold Frederiksen, Lego Star Wars design director, told the site that Disney asked the name be changed for the latest model. On a new Lego set, the ship is now titled “Boba Fett’s starship,” as first reported by the Star Wars fan site, Jedi News. And the name of the ship still appears in the Star Wars Databank, the official reference guide for the franchise. The ship was first introduced on the big screen in The Empire Strikes Back and seen again in the prequel, Attack of the Clones, before appearing in season two of The Mandalorian. Disney is dropping the name Slave 1 from Boba Fett’s classic Star Wars ship - at least on a Lego product.
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