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Should Have Done the Boba Fett Movie Instead

posted 6 years ago by cyberbob (3488)
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Terrible idea making a movie about Han Solo with a different actor. Nobody wants to see some unknown playing a role made iconic by a Hollywood legend

I'm not a big Harrison Ford fan, but he obviously brought a level of charisma to the character that would be impossible to replicate by an unknown that was only hired because of a passing resemblance to the original.

Boba Fett would have been WAY easier to cast. A) he wore a mask in the originals so he could be played by anyone (if you ignore the Jango Fett clone thing) and B) he had very few lines and not much of a personality so you don't have to live up to any iconic performance

People liked Han Solo because of what the actor brought to the role. People like Boba Fett because of the inherent coolness of the character. So they F'd up by not focusing on the Boba Fett movie instead

[–] bozo_500 (13247) 6 years ago

that's true and since Han Solo wouldn't be the main character (han would obvs appear in a Boba movie) and would only be in a few scenes then he could've been either CGI 'American Graffiti' Ford like Cushing in R1 or the utube lookalike dude (having the film focus on Han meant some no name actor had the impossible task of being Harrison Ford and carrying the damn film as impossible to have CG Ford for the whole movie and they wernt satisfied with the lookalike dude as he wasnt so much an actor as Alden) also it wouldnt have totally ruined the mystique of Han

also Jabba could've been in it in a prominent role and thered have been a return to Jabbas Palace from ROTJ. everyone loves Jabba!!

shit an R rated Mangold directed Boba movie could've easily done 1b like R1 (so long as it came out xmas)

[–] artguylarry (498) 6 years ago

Well, to be fair, Harrison Ford was not a legend at the time. But more to the point, he is also a gray haired, leathery, smoking, drinking reanimated skeleton at this point, and also, he hated the role. Or tired of it, I don't remember which. I just know he kicked and screamed his way through TFA, and only resumed the part on the stipulation that he would be killed off.

Alden Ehrenreich was great for the part, in my opinion. He nailed the arrogance and body language very nicely.

[–] cyberbob (3488) 6 years ago

Yeah, I've never cared much for Ford or for Han Solo either. In fact, I haven't even watched this movie.

I just think business-wise it would have been much smarter to make a Boba Fett movie instead. The only reason they shelved it is because Josh Trank got himself fired from the F4 reboot and Simon Kinberg got him blacklisted. But they should have just found a new director.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

I never got the love for Fett, who always seemed a tangential and uninteresting chacter to me.

But it's true that his blankness gives the writers and actors much more leeway and room for improvement, a really talented team could have turned a costume into someone fascinating. I was against the Solo project from the beginning because Han is very much the opposite, the character is all about the actor who played him. But just about anyone could play Darth Vader (eight or nine guys to date), anyone could play Fett.

[–] AP (5291) 6 years ago

Yeah, he didn't do much in the original movies. He wasn't even the one to capture Han (Vader and some Stormtroopers did the job for him). Then he died a ridiculous "death".

Still, his EU appearances had him as a badass.

[–] bozo_500 (13247) 6 years ago

everyone seemed to be going nuts over the idea of a Fett movie in the 90s