Star Wars: Solo - 10 New Details Lucasfilm Just Revealed
3. George Lucas' Input
Having sold Lucasfilm to Disney back in 2012, George Lucas is pretty much done with Star Wars. Of course, he still gets asked about it whenever a new film is released, but he's not a part of its making.
Except, in a small way, for Solo.
Lucas, who directed Ron Howard in American Graffiti - a film this looks like being somewhat influenced by - stopped by the set to see production and visit old friends, and actually ended up having a little bit of input on the movie, as Kathleen Kennedy explains:
"He had intended to just kind of stop by and say hi, and he stayed five hours. There’s even one little moment in a scene that — I can’t tell you what, sorry — but in the scene on the Millennium Falcon where George said, ‘Why doesn’t Han just do this.’”
“It actually is a funny little bit that will probably get a laugh. And Ron happened to be by the monitor and not inside the Falcon and he goes, ‘Oh that’s a great idea,’ and ran in and said, ‘George wants us to do this.’ So that was pretty cool. I think George felt pretty great about that. He could revisit these characters, and I think he felt so comfortable, obviously with Ron being there, that it was just fun for him."
Over a decade on from Revenge of the Sith and a few years after selling Lucasfilm, George Lucas has helped make another Star Wars film.