Actress Pheobe Waller-Bridge Eyed for a CGI-Driven Role in “Han Solo”!

Variety is reporting that “Fleabag” actress Pheobe Waller-Bridge has been considered for an important role in the upcoming second Star Wars spin-off movie about the adventures of young Han Solo. The role is expected to be CGI-driven. It is not clear if she will play a droid (like K-2SO) or an alien character (like Maz Kanata). Read on for the details…

 

 

From Variety:

 

The role would be a CGI-driven performance from Waller-Bridge but would still be a significant part of the ensemble, similarly to key Star Wars characters in the past like Chewbacca, C-3P0 and most recently, Alan Tudyk’s K-2SO in “Rogue One.”

Cutting her teeth in British TV realm in shows like “Broadchurch” and “Drifters”, Waller-Bridge broke out on the scene with her series “Crashing.” She would follow that series up with her Amazon series “Fleabag”, which she created and stars in.

 

Han Solo: A Star Wars Story began principal photography on January 30, 2017, and is set for release on May 25, 2018. The movie will be directed by the duo Christopher Miller and Phil Lord and will tell an origin story about Han Solo and Chewie, which is expected to take place 10 years before the events of “A New Hope”. George Lucas developed some ideas for the story in the past, and in 2012 Lawrence Kasdan was brought in to write the script together with his son Jon.

Kathleen Kennedy described that the “Han Solo” story will have a western/heist feel. The movie also stars Alden Ehrenreich as young Han Solo, as well as Emilia Clarke and Woody Harrelson in an unknown roles.

 

 

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67 thoughts on “Actress Pheobe Waller-Bridge Eyed for a CGI-Driven Role in “Han Solo”!

  • February 9, 2017 at 9:51 am
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    She’s too pretty to be CG’d.

    • February 9, 2017 at 10:23 am
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      So was Lupita

      • February 10, 2017 at 12:43 am
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        So was Andy Serkis.

        😉

    • February 9, 2017 at 3:31 pm
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      It’s about her talent.

    • February 9, 2017 at 6:53 pm
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      so only ugly people can play cg characters… where do i send my resume? 😉

      • February 9, 2017 at 10:41 pm
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        *ZING*

        (Ditto here!)

  • February 9, 2017 at 10:40 am
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    Why not both? Has there ever been a love interest onscreen that was CG? I don’t mean like with Avatar where they both were or Ex Machina where she was part human but like an all CG hooking up with a human?

    Han seems like a guy who has been outside his own species a few times so I can see it but it would probably turn a lot of people off as well.

    • February 9, 2017 at 10:40 am
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      Okay, Jessica Rabbit but she was 2D and still drawn human.

      • February 9, 2017 at 2:19 pm
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        And still so, so fine. : D

        • February 10, 2017 at 1:47 am
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          Re: “so, so fine.”

          No bad….
          Just drawn that way. 😉

  • February 9, 2017 at 1:47 pm
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    More British brunettes! Yay! 😀

    • February 9, 2017 at 9:47 pm
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      Someone over at Lucasfilm/Disney clearly has a fetish. I’m not complaining.

      • February 10, 2017 at 12:42 am
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        Don’t forget the tentacle monster!

        • February 10, 2017 at 1:45 am
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          See?!
          I was trying to & then you reminded me.

          Sheesh!

  • February 9, 2017 at 3:26 pm
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    I’d expect her to be playing an alien this time around. Disney has made a great impact with the droids they have introduced so far. I think its time for a memorable alien character.

  • February 9, 2017 at 6:48 pm
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    Jar Jars daughter!….you heard it here first!

    • February 9, 2017 at 6:55 pm
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      that would imply that that jar jar had sex at some- i just threw up a bit in my mouth. 😉

        • February 9, 2017 at 8:19 pm
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          Lmao.

      • February 10, 2017 at 1:44 am
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        Re: “i just threw up a bit in my mouth.”

        Funny piece of trivia –
        Gungans reproduce by throwing up in each others’ mouth.

        Yoosa didn’t know?!

        • February 10, 2017 at 1:50 am
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          oh my gawd!

    • February 9, 2017 at 8:13 pm
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      This means nothing…. A random basically asked if she would, and this is her response.

      • February 9, 2017 at 8:32 pm
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        Thanks, Captain Obvious!

        • February 9, 2017 at 9:11 pm
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          If you were someone else responding like this I would kind of understand it, but this coming from the OP…

          • February 9, 2017 at 9:18 pm
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            I didn’t say she WAS playing her, or was even in danger of playing her, as there’s NO plans anywhere for such an adaptation that anybody’s mentioned, genius!

    • February 9, 2017 at 8:21 pm
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      I like Rosario a lot but it has to be Ashley, she is ahsoka.

  • February 9, 2017 at 8:35 pm
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    could we finally be getting a female droid sidekick? reasonable…even after so many had thought BB-8 was going to be female.

    • February 9, 2017 at 8:44 pm
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      What the heck is a female droid?

    • February 9, 2017 at 10:27 pm
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      Droids have no gender.

      • February 9, 2017 at 11:31 pm
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        They have no sex, but are programmed with gender.

        • February 10, 2017 at 12:35 am
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          Where did you hear this? What gender is R2-D2? How about mouse droids? The entire idea is silly. My toaster has no gender.

          • February 10, 2017 at 12:41 am
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            R2-D2 has masculine gender programming, as does
            C-3PO (thus the male voice). It’s not silly, it’s a fact.

          • February 10, 2017 at 1:56 am
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            my phone talks to me with a female voice but that doesn’t make my phone a girl.

          • February 10, 2017 at 5:48 am
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            No, but it makes Siri “female”. Look at my reply to Bobby Sharp above. Gender programming is a canon thing in Star Wars.

          • February 10, 2017 at 6:11 am
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            Good gravy, they are robots, why waste time programing gender? It does nothing to help them function. And for the record Siri sounds female but you can also program it sound like a guy. It’s just a piece of software.

          • February 10, 2017 at 1:56 am
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            Does this exist in the Star Wars canon anywhere?

          • February 10, 2017 at 2:52 pm
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            Ah. Hmm. I didn’t know this was codified anywhere in the canon. I can see where C-3PO can be seen to have a masculine gender. But with regards to non-anthropomorphic droids like R2-D2, I never looked at them as having any gender whatsoever.

          • February 10, 2017 at 10:00 pm
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            In the end, it doesn’t REALLY matter.

          • February 11, 2017 at 4:12 pm
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            Well, no, none of this does when compared with other real life stuff. But it’s Star Wars and I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t at least marginally interested. Because I’m a Star Wars fan, I am interested in the mechanics of the property and how the galaxy is structured. I just wasn’t aware of any genders being attributed to droids. I still think it’s a rather silly idea. I can see where a droid’s voice might indicate gender, but other than that…

          • February 11, 2017 at 11:03 pm
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            Well…there were those “50’s diner” droids that were probably better off female.

          • February 12, 2017 at 5:57 am
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            Yeah. Jawa Juice. Still trying to forget about that….

          • February 10, 2017 at 1:36 am
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            My toaster is a fluid binary transgender and is currently transitioning into a dishwasher.

          • February 10, 2017 at 1:48 am
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            DON’T ASSUME QWE’S GENDER!

          • February 10, 2017 at 6:50 pm
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            That’s a shame it feels a need to transition, and isn’t body-secure enough to simply self-identify as dishwasher.

          • February 10, 2017 at 5:05 am
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            Wookieepedia shows droids as having masculine and feminine programming.

          • February 10, 2017 at 6:49 pm
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            How do you know? Have you asked you toaster which, if any, of the 65 genders Ze identifies with?

          • February 10, 2017 at 7:10 pm
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            Not yet. But I now know what I’m doing with my Friday night.

          • February 10, 2017 at 10:00 pm
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            Yeah! Don’t be transphobic!!

        • February 10, 2017 at 1:53 am
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          are they? 3PO identifies his model and functions but never a gender. only the droids owners seem to give them a gender identity(through pronoun usage).

          • February 10, 2017 at 2:02 am
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            Re: “only the droids owners seem to give them a gender identity.”
            It’s interesting that, if memory serves, you only hear the humans referring to droids with a gender.
            As well, it seems to near universally be a *male* pronoun.

            Maybe it’s similar to how in our universe with ships where female pronoun is used to refer to them?

          • February 10, 2017 at 2:37 pm
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            Actually, think of “An New Hope” Where Luke says that R2-D2 is going to be a lot of trouble and C3P-O says “Oh, HE excels at that!” Just an example that I can think of. In fact, there are a few times in ANH when he is referred to as a “He”.

          • February 10, 2017 at 10:11 pm
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            Thanks for that. I’d suspected that a droid (3PO) most likely used gender at some but…but just didn’t spend much time trying to recall.

            Of course, in that case I suppose it could be argued that C3P-O was using the gender for R2 that he’d heard a human/master assign.

          • February 11, 2017 at 7:56 am
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            But that would go against protocol 😉

          • February 10, 2017 at 10:02 pm
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            Except that some droids are female. R4-P17 is an example.

          • February 10, 2017 at 10:09 pm
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            Re: R4-P17

            Just curious is that canon?

            I read the PT novelizations but didn’t watch all (much) of The Clone Wars. Didn’t recall that.

          • February 10, 2017 at 11:45 pm
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            Yes, it’s canon.

            From Wookieepedia: “R4-P17, nicknamed Arfour, was an astromech droid, programmed with a female personality…”

          • February 10, 2017 at 10:03 pm
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            Droids refer to each other with pronouns as well. C-3PO often translates R4’s speech with “he”

            “Oh, *he* excels at that!”

  • February 9, 2017 at 9:13 pm
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    Hope it will be a droid.
    Maz was a great CGI character, but too much could be distracting. At least a cgi droid doesn’t have the imperfections of cgi body movements.
    By the way, I think Maz should be in this film.

    • February 9, 2017 at 10:05 pm
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      She’ll be playing Bollux or Zollux from the Han Solo books*

      *No I don’t really believe that.

      • February 10, 2017 at 2:06 am
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        Bollux is a male though. Well not a male but programmed with masculinity.

        • February 10, 2017 at 5:55 am
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          Also, I suspect they learned their lesson about that name

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