Star Wars: Solo - 10 New Details Lucasfilm Just Revealed

4. Lord, Miller, And Howard

It was last year when Phil Lord and Chris Miller, deep in production on the movie, were fired from the project over creative differences. It's a change that all parties have seemingly deemed necessary, and Kathleen Kennedy told EW a little more about it:

"I think these guys are hilarious, but they come from a background of animation and sketch comedy and when you are making these movies you can do that and there’s plenty of room for improvisation, we do that all the time, but it has to be inside of a highly structured process or you can’t get the work done and you can’t move the armies of people to anticipate and have things ready. So, it literally came down to process. Just getting it done.”

After that, it meant a new director was needed, which led to Rush's Ron Howard taking the reigns and, reportedly - though he won't get into percentages - overhauling the vast majority of the film. Howard says of his time on the film:

"I really have enjoyed it. It’s a fun tone. And of course, with the Kasdans writing it and it being a young Han Solo movie, there’s this swagger, and there’s this sense of humour and this kind of youthful emotion and intensity.”

"I found myself sort of drawing upon the movie Rush, and that intensity. After all, in another universe, Han would’ve probably been a Formula One race driver or something, you know? He has that kind of sensibility and talent.”