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George Lucas helped direct a scene in Solo: A Star Wars Story

The production of Solo: A Star Wars Story has been a pretty rocky one with the first two directors being bumped off at the end of filming only to get replaced by Ron Howard who ended up reshooting most of the film. Turns out, there was another director who worked on the film.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, producer Kathleen Kennedy said that Star Wars creator George Lucas came by the set to see how things were going as he has with the other films and ended up giving a bit of feedback.

“He had intended to just kind of stop by and say hi, and he stayed five hours,” [Kathleen] Kennedy says. “There’s even one little moment in a scene that — I can’t tell you what, sorry — but in the scene on the Millennium Falcon where George said, ‘Why doesn’t Han just do this.’”

George Lucas and Ron Howard are longtime friends so maybe that’s why the Star Wars veteran felt comfortable chipping in on the project, even to the smallest degree.

“It actually is a funny little bit that will probably get a laugh,” Kennedy says. “And Ron happened to be by the monitor and not inside the Falcon and he goes, ‘Oh that’s a great idea,’ and ran in and said, ‘George wants us to do this.’ So that was pretty cool. I think George felt pretty great about that. He could revisit these characters, and I think he felt so comfortable, obviously with Ron being there, that it was just fun for him.”

While this obviously isn’t enough to earn him a directing credit on the film, it’s great to see that George Lucas isn’t so bitter about the franchise that he’d rather sit back and watch it struggle. After his multi-billion dollar sale of Star Wars (which Disney has broken even on thanks to Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Lucas is now spending his days in retirement and allegedly making experimental films that he never plans on releasing and will only show to his friends.

Solo: A Star Wars Story will hit theaters on May 28th, 2018.

Cade Onder

Editor-in-Chief of GameZone. You can follow me on Twitter @Cade_Onder for bad jokes, opinions on movies, and more.

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