Wild Speculation: Phil Lord and Chris Miller Are No Longer Directing the Han Solo Spin Off Movie
Welcome to “Wild Speculation” a segment here where we take a recent news story and speculate wildly on what it could mean. Today’s story, Directing duo, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who were directing the still untitled Han Solo spinoff film for Lucasfilm, announced yesterday that they were leaving the project. Officially that is all we know so far. Now, onto the wild speculation. First of all I want to say something about the idea of Phil Lord and Chris Miller directing this Han Solo movie in the first place. To date the pair have directed four movies together ( Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street ) which have all been out and out comedies of one form or another. While not full out parodies, each of these four movies has leaned very heavily into outlandish comedy in it’s own unique way. And while Star Wars movies have always been fun movies with plenty of humor, especially when it came to the character of Han Solo, it’s nowhere ne...