Is The Han Solo Movie In More Trouble Than We Thought?

2. So, Do They Just Reshoot Everything?

According to an insider on Han Solo, a lot of what Lord and Miller shot is “very usable", but the Han Solo production is already several months in - and while Lucasfilm were reportedly unhappy with how little had been shot - there's got to be a fair amount of footage already captured.

Do they now just scrap it all (an expensive endeavour, inevitably) and start from scratch or will we get a mesh of Ron Howard's work and Miller and Lord's? Given that there is some concern over how the film will be credited, it seems likely we'll see the footage they shot in some form.

But, isn't that footage precisely the reason they were sacked? Isn't shoe-horning in inferior content simply because it has been filmed a compromise too far? Isn't asking Howard to knit his new footage to that without the seams showing a little unfair?

Is It Really All That Concerning?

The concerning idea is keeping the footage, to be honest.

Reshooting material that was classified as not good enough is no bad thing, and it really ought to be done. Sure, the production has moved on and Howard has a lot to film, without starting from scratch, but it would be preferable for him to have full credit for the entire film (not least because he runs the risk of not getting credit for things he actually is responsible for).