15 Huge Controversies That Rocked Star Wars
2. Han Solo Director Duo Fired
Despite being in production for four months, the Han Solo stand-alone project suffered an almighty set-back when Kathleen Kennedy announced that - due to "creative differences" - Chris Miller and Phil Lord had been moved on.
The original statement made it sound very much like it was a mutual decision, but subsequent reports out of Variety suggested that it was in fact far less amicable than that. There had apparently been friction from day one - not only between the directors and writer Jon Kasdan, but also with Kathleen Kennedy herself over the directors' approach to film-making. That's an untenable position, to say the least.
It all begs the question: why bother hiring a pair of directors whose style of film-making is notoriously fluid and then fire them when they revert immediately to type? It brings unnecessary heat to LucasFilm and should inspire questions over what they actually want from the Anthology films (considering they've meddled with both of them hugely already).
Sure, it might turn out well again - particularly if they hire a great replacement like Ron Howard - but for now it's unnecessary, distracting scandal once more.