Author: Lauren Huff / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Han shot second (well, he fired off his second trailer, anyway) on Sunday with a new look at Solo: A Star Wars Story .
The trailer comes seven weeks ahead of the film’s May 25 release date, and shows off the chemistry between Han (Alden Ehrenreich), his future friend Lando (Donald Glover) and his best pal Chewie (Joonas Suotamo).
The team at Heat Vision has boarded the Millennium Falcon to break it all down, so let’s punch it and get to the discussion.Erik Hayden: The Western Samurai-imagery, ridiculous fur-jacketed Snowtroopers with metal boots, a Star Destroyer being built over a dilapidated, industrial-looking Corellia and the musty set-up to a game of Sabacc with Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian could be cause for cautious optimism. But the guitar-riff in the lead-up to the action in the trailer seems out of place, as does the cartoon logo for the movie’s Solo title (very Lego, ironically). I didn’t see Greedo in the trailer, he’s got to be there, right?
Graeme McMillan: I’ll be honest: One of the most surprising thing about the trailer is the music. It felt like someone was given the orders, “Imagine what the child of Firefly’s theme song and the Star Wars theme would sound like, then play it down a bit.” It was distracting in how different it was, yet it was also one of the few things about the trailer that didn’t feel like I’d seen it (heard it) before. It says a lot about how disappointing Solo’s earlier trailers have been that this is simultaneously the best yet by far, yet still underwhelming when taken on its own.
There’s a lot to like in the new trailer — not least of which are Donald Glover’s “Everything you’ve heard about me is true” line, and hearing Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s L3-37 for the first time — but overall, I still feel very… un-excited by the whole thing. Am I alone?Ryan Parker: Not in the least, Graeme. I am psyched for Glover’s Lando, but that is about it. Really not trying to be a hater. I just do not feel that same level of bubbling nerd anticipation for the film as I have every other Star Wars installment. And it is not all Alden’s fault. I honestly think he was sent a on fool’s errand trying to play one of the most believed character’s in sci-fi history that really only one man can ever pull off.
Aaron Couch: We will need to see the movie and the performances to really make an assessment. I think about J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, which had enjoyable younger versions of iconic characters. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban and the rest all were more are less accepted — and Spock and Kirk are arguably as iconic as Han Solo. So why isn’t it working for you so far Ryan? Are there rules about which roles can be recast and which can’t?
Parker: Excellent question. Harrison Ford wasn’t trying to be Han Solo, he just was. Ford said in previous interviews he just…
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