Bob Iger Talks Ron Howard And Star Wars: Han Solo Reshoots.
TMZ briefly ran into Disney CEO Bob Iger and asked him a number of questions regarding the troubled production of the Star Wars spin-off based on Han Solo. Iger, being the class act that he is, answered these questions as professionally as possible.
Iger gave several measured responses to the TMZ paparazzi’s questions by dispelling the notion that it’s a “doomed” movie following the departure of former directors Phil Lord & Christopher Miller and director Ron Howard taking over the film:
“Of course! Ron Howard’s in charge.”
The reporter asked Iger a handful of questions that he personally couldn’t answer (such as if Ron Howard was a big Star Wars fan), but he reiterated the reasons that he thinks that the movie is going to be just fine:
“First of all, we have a great cast, a great script, and a great director. It’s gonna be fine. I’m very excited.”
Obviously, this situation is incredibly troubling for Lucasfilm, but it seems as though they’re on top of it, since the company is no stranger to troubled productions. Iger declined to comment if the film would be delayed or not.
The video can be seen on TMZ‘s official website, or below through their YouTube channel.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
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“Class act”? Do you know him personally? I for one have learned to not trust any CEO of any major corporation, they sometimes become presidents.
That’s because great business leaders have to be great politicians.
The POTUS is many things but a politician he is not else the election results would have been very different.
He’s a great conman and great at getting remarkably stupid people to trust him.
So…a politician!
All politicians lie. Trump does it as frequently as drawing oxygen. It takes a special kind of stupid to trust such a blatant fraud and pathological liar like him.
‘Twas a joke.
Oh….you could throw Hillary and Bernie into that category, as well.
All politicians lie, but it takes a special kind of stupid to trust a pathological liar like Trump.
Well, I didn’t vote for any of the presidential candidates last November. I wrote in my choice. However, if Trump is ultimately successful, then it won’t matter what anyone thinks of him. I actually enjoy seeing pundits ‘heads explode’ when Trump gets his way. They are suffering from TDS…LOL.
I don’t dispute it.
Not sure I would classify Trump as a great business leader:
Trump has a track record of piling up his businesses with unsustainable debt, and then having them file for bankruptcy. Per CNN Money, “no major US company has filed for Chapter 11 more than Trump’s casino empire in the last 30 years.”
Trump has not only taken on excessive debt, with bankruptcies to show for it. He has (mis-)managed his company in such a way that he would have been better off, financially, simply investing his inheritance from his father in an S&P 500 fund than, well, operating the Trump Organization. According to SV Date writing in National Journal:
“Had he invested his eventual share of his father’s real-estate company into a mutual fund of S&P 500 stocks in 1974, it would be worth nearly $3 billion today, thanks to the market’s performance over the past four decades. If he’d invested the $200 million that Forbes magazine determined he was worth in 1982 into that index fund, it would have grown to more than $8 billion today.
Even the smaller figure exceeds the lower range of his possible net worth as reported to the Federal Election Commission, while the larger number exceeds by billions recent estimates of Trump’s worth by financial publications. And it would have come without the high-drama, roller-coaster career that has included four corporate bankruptcies.”
Well, he says one thing and then does another so sounds like a politician to me.
Iger is a glofiried corporate raider. I loathed Eisner but will admit he had a few good ideas and saved Disney before he nearly destroyed it.
Eisner is sort of like to Disney what Rick Berman was to Star Trek while Iger is what Abrams was to it.
Next CEO will probably bury both franchises permanently for decades.
Bob Iger oversaw the purchases of Lucasfilm and Marvel, which have brought in untold billions for Disney. You can cry all you like, but Iger is the Golden Buy right now.
I….think you just agreed with him?
“Iger is a glofiried corporate raider”
That’s what he said. But I don’t think Iger is a “glorified” anything. He’s a true-blue bonafide money-man.
Your Trump burn’s so hot it already gasified and created three different types of radiation, necessitating a new category of fire suppressant.
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I have faith everything will be okay…..the only two problems that a Star Wars film can have is…its not Star Wars enough or not original enough
Exactly !! Well said !!
It’s over, it’s done. Let’s let it go, and give everyone a chance to finish the job. then we will know.
TMZ’s beligerant questioning is always annoying…
Not sure people really know how big of a fuckup this is. Especially since this could mean NO Star Wars film next year which would be a first since Disney started making them. Even the MCU hasn’t had a disaster like that yet.
Expect to see some heads roll in the coming months, Hopefully at the top where the blame should be due.
Doom and gloom. The project will move forward, people will do some overtime, and the movie will hit theaters when planned.
How can this be a huge f#ck-up ? The script stays as it is. All the actors are still there. Casdan the writer is still there. They’ve got an experienced director to step in and take it through to the end.
All it can be is simply L&M’s take on the script, perhaps the deliverey, and maybe some ad-lib comedy added which all didn’t work. So sure they’ll need to do some re-shoots, and clean up the bits which are not Star Warsey. But it is a long way from a “huge F-up”, and no Star Wars movie being produced.
Of course the media are cooking this up to be a huge F-Up because it’s news for them.
I trust the Disney team to get through this.
There’s more than ‘some ad-libbed comedy which didn’t work’ at play when the directors are fired this far into production. Ad-libbed comedy can be trimmed out, or alternate takes used. This is something different.
That’s the thing. According to the rumors, Lord and Miller didn’t *want* to use any alternate takes, because they liked their version of the movie. If the directors don’t want to fix the movie, then you kind of have to get rid of the directors.
Re-shoots were already scheduled and budgeted. All this means is someone else at the helm for them, combing over final edits with a more impartial perspective. NBD IMO. Howard got set up for an easy field goal (if you’re an awesome QB, anyway).
That’s so far from happening to be laughable.
When no heads roll, I expect to see you say you were wrong.
That’s a n insane exaggeration of the severity of the situation.
I think either way this should get pushed back six months or so to give the new team room to breathe.
Its got to be so hard to not flip your lid with these TMZ people. I would never have the patience for it.
He’s the head of a massive, publicly held company that relies exclusively on having their face constantly in the news. He can suck it up and answer some unscripted questions.
Much as I am skeptical over this film, I am somewhat hopeful. For granted, I am not inclined to take the word of Bob Iger or any CEO as let us face it; they need to say positive things about the company. Unless, he wants to feel the wrath of stockholders and investors.
But really, as bad as this situation is, I do think that this project can succeed. It is in a bad place, but that doesn’t mean automatic fail. There is a chance things will go fine. But maybe, that is just me who isn’t as married to Han Solo as a character and always found him bland. Regardless, I am not downplaying the situation as this is bad; I mean three weeks of shooting left?!
And the fact that none of these issues were hammered out before filming. My hope is that Kennedy and Kasdam will have learned a big lesson from this in terms of better vetting directors and hammering stuff out. Just because, they had success with Abrams and Edwards; doesn’t mean that will always be the case. But if there is one undeinable thing; it is how smart LF was when it came to taking control of the narrative. That doesn’t make it the most truthful one, but really it should serve to all studios how to do so.
So far, despite occasional controversy, Kennedy and Iger are currently batting 2 for 2. No reason to be overconfident about the odds but also no reason to be convinced this time will be different. Time will tell.
“I’m not going to say” is code for “Han Solo is being pushed to December 2018”
They have Mary Poppins coming out on Christmas. It’s not moving.
Well, do those franchises really compete? I don’t see anyone in front of the box offices puzzled if they’re going to spend their money on Mary Poppins or on Han Solo.
Yes. Star Wars is what they call a 4-quadrant movie, meaning it appeals to males and females both over and under 25 years old. Mary Poppins will have significant overlap with part of that.
Also, if they want Mary Poppins to be a huge massive hit (and they do) Star Wars being there, sucking up dollars and oxygen is not the smart move.
I know plenty of people who would choose Mary Poppins over Han Solo. But would see Han Solo otherwise.
I posted a big rant on SWNN about why I’m not too stoked on a Han Solo movie, but I thought it worth observing that this will likely be the first Star Wars film to focus on life outside of the Republic, Empire or Rebellion. Han is actually the most logical main character to use as a conduit into stories about the underworld, wild space, non-aligned aspects of the galaxy far, far away. I hope they utilize that unique aspect to the fullest, because that gets me excited. 🙂
We already know the Empire figures heavily into the film, so “nope”.
We don’t know how much so “maybe”
AFAIK we’ve just seen a biker-scout-esque trooper on a boxy speeder thing. Any other evidence outside of EU stuff?
Bob Iger didn’t talk Star Wars. You make it sound like a legitimate sit down interview. He was ambushed by TMZ with their guerilla tactics and they got barely anything out of him. Stop trying to make news where there is none.
Than you.
He was asked and answered. Words came out of his mouth. Which is talking.
Who else is bathing in the schadenfreude over this needless, naked crash-grab?
No article about having KK bringing an acting coach for Alden?
As a staunch defender of this film (I feel like I’m one of maybe two), even I’LL admit that hiring an acting coach for an actor chosen specifically and pain-stakingly to so controversally portray one of the most iconic characters in cinema THIS LATE into filming is EXTREMELY alarming.
My cheery optimism has gone out the window, but let me be clear that it has NOTHING to do with it being a Han Solo film. I REALLY want a Han Solo film and I want to see someone other than Harrison Ford play the character. And yes, I’m still a true Star Wars fan. Fuck you if you think otherwise.
A fan is a fan. Doesn’t matter if they love the idea of this film being made or not. I am just finding it funny that this website “source” surely seems to be having an overly optimistic view of the movie in general, despite everything pointing in the opposite direction. im not saying there should be massive panic but this “aw shucks guys the movie is going to be great” makes me seriously consider who their sources are who is giving this information and who exactly is buttering their bread.
Things have looked bad before. A New Hope’s production was SO fucked up. Lucas fired his editor, and had to hire two new ones (plus his wife) to get the movie finished.
What the public gets to hear about during production is only a chunk of the story, and we can NEVER know for certain if the film will be any good or not, despite or because of any production woes.
Always two there are
TMZ are a bunch of Cunts . !
Agreed. I’m not even going to click the embedded video, because it’ll add a 1 to their disgusting, hate-filled view counter.
If the lady playing Cap’n Plasma is 6’2” check out how tall Bob is. He’s gotta be like 6’ 8”.