10 Films That Switched Directors During Production

10. Solo: A Star Wars Story

One of the most recent and more infamous cases on the list, this past summer's Star Wars film suffered from just having the wrong issues at the wrong time.

After years of pre-production and planning, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (of The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street fame) were a few months into filming when, in June of 2017, it was suddenly announced that they were fired from the film. Seeing as the film's scheduled release was already less than a year away, Lucasfilm had to move fast to replace the duo, turning to studio friend and filmmaker veteran Ron Howard to complete the film.

Once Howard took over, the film went through extensive reshoots to provide a more consistent tone and to get things a bit closer to what was in the script written by Lawrence and Jon Kasdan. The finished film wound up being a rip-roaring good time that delivered everything anyone could have possibly wanted from a young Han Solo movie, but the negative publicity garnered from this mid-production change marred the film's financial success.