10 Directors Who Were Kicked Off A Movie

10. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller - Han Solo

After the apparent removal of Gareth Edwards for reshoots and post-production on Rogue One and now the highly-publicized firing of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller with just three weeks of shooting left on the untitled Han Solo movie, it has become definitively clear that Kathleen Kennedy is in charge of the Star Wars household.

Kennedy reportedly disagreed with the duo's loose, improvisational and comedy-heavy style of filming, while the directing duo felt that based on their previous track record that was the movie they had been hired to make. Feeling that the project had veered too far of-course, Lord and Miller were removed from the project, with Ron Howard drafted in several days later.

For some, the Han Solo movie was exciting precisely because Lord and Miller were making it and while Howard is no doubt a safe pair of hands, the veteran director has a short time period to turn the project into whatever it is Lucasfilm wants it to be with so much footage already in the can, not to mention the various negative rumors coming from the set on an almost daily basis.