https://mashable.com/2018/03/15/new-solo-posters-disney.amp
Bunch of virtue signaling idiots....why not replace the blaster with a walkie talkie?
They should've replaced it with a baby rattle and stuck a dummy tit in his mouth since that must be the audience they're trying to appeal to.
Different artwork was just used on posters in Brazil. This is just people getting outraged for no reason.
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-solo-blasters-removed-brazil-posters/
So bad in many ways and I still can't figure out why Emila gets a poster as well.
shareBunch of virtue signaling idiots....why not replace the blaster with a walkie talkie?
70s/80s was the moment with the highest level of freedom. From 90s on, it's going backwards.
In the 97 they changed the scene so Han doesn't shot first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first
ET changed the guns to walkie talkies in 2002, which (I suppose) it's your reference. For whoever doesn't know: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/ET1982.jpg
2018, Han doesn't have a blaster.
We're screwed.
Well, Lucasfilm just released two new official posters (to coincide with the full trailer release today), and he does have a blaster.
https://screenrant.com/solo-star-wars-story-official-poster/
https://i.imgur.com/p635E3o.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaIKyQwXkAAkBtN.jpg:large
I don't think the blaster was removed due to controversy. International marketing just does things differently. Lucasfilm also got in trouble with plagiarizing the posters from an album cover artist. So maybe things had to be reworked and reframed, and the gun lost out in the bid for attention.
There is no Lucasfilm anymore. Thats just the name of an department at Disney!
And the artists postings were already removed. So that isnt a problem at all. Disney just panicked that a movie about a smuggler could show armed smugglers on the poster :) .