Cameras rolled on Solo: A Star Wars Story in early 2017. For six-ish months, Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed their version of the film - a highly stylised, ambitious take on Han Solo’s backstory. But in putting their version to film, Lord and Miller used the filmmaking process they’d honed over decades of work together - improvising, trying things out and throwing things away in pursuit of the best story.

But that process might not have been the best one for Solo. At home in LA, Lawrence Kasdan was watching the dailies. And he wasn’t happy with what he saw.

Kathleen Kennedy, producer of Solo and President of Lucasfilm, had the deciding vote in what happened next.

Strap in, this is a long one mates.

CLIPS:

Rewriting Collective Insights: Phil Lord at TedXCoconut Grove

Team Deakins Podcast Episode 78: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story Bonus Feature: Bradford Young

Solo: A Star Wars Story Deleted Scenes

Happy Sad Confused: Lord & Miller II

MUSIC:

“Unanswered Questions”, “Hot Pursuit”, “Bicycle”, “Neo Western”, Rollin At 5”, “Simplex”, “Space Jazz”, “Floating Cities”, “Screen Saver”, “Groove Grove”, “Bleeping Demo”, “Stay The Course”, “Oppressive Gloom”, “Mystery Sax”, “Man Down”, “Scissors”, “Martian Cowboy”, “I Can Feel It Coming”, “Crypto”, “Lost Frontier”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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"Quiescent In Time" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

"The Good Guy" by John Powell (I'm trying to make a thing where every time a director gets fired or replaced I do a bit of sad music from the film)