Rumors Indicate that ‘Han Solo’ Extras Have Been Released but Production Continues!

Following the shocking news last night that Lucasfilm and directing duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller have parted ways due to cited “creative differences” on the upcoming Star Wars Story, it now looks like production could be delayed until July despite being several weeks from completion, at least for the movie’s extras.

 

 

An email from a casting agency for extras has allegedly leaked on Reddit confirming a number of details with the new shoot. The email can be seen in full below:

Hi

Following last night’s late release on RED CUP, we have been in discussion with Production to find out the situation with your remaining booked dates.

Unfortunately, the releases this week have been the result of a large schedule upheaval. All the dates you have previously been booked for, have now been cancelled and you are hereby released from them.

We can only apologise for this huge change, as we know it will impact all of you in different ways. It is a decision that has been made by Production, we at Key Casting have aimed to do our best by our artists by informing you ASAP.

Production have now stated that your scenes are due to be resumed MONDAY 10TH JULY, AND WILL SHOOT FOR THREE WEEKS.

We have been asked to block book you from Mon 10 – Sun 30 July, including weekends. The team have stated that some of these days will be dropped but at this point they would love you to be free for as much of this time as possible.

We are aware some of you will not be able to commit to all dates in this time period, or may have holidays booked. That is absolutely fine. Again, Production would love you to be as fully available as possible for these new dates, but they will understand if that’s not the case.

You should please now follow the respond link below to let us know if you are available for rescheduled filming Mon 10 – Sun 30 July, and warn us of any unavailable dates so we can inform Production.

 

For those struggling to understand the way this message has been worded – it basically implies that Key Casting, an agency known to cast Background Artists (also known as “Extras”) in large films such as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has informed some of the cast that due to the directorial change announced last night, that the dates of production have been delayed. Shooting will now commence on Monday the 10th of July and will finish three weeks later on Sunday the 30th.

 

 

However, contradictory to this report, we also have a source that says production is still underway. This additional piece of news could imply a number of things. First, that the initial report mentioned above is false, or that the second unit team is still working. Also our friends from LaFosaDelRancor had heard the same from a source of their own – production is still underway. It is very possible that actually both stories here are correct. While we have no doubts now that production is still going on, it’s possible that the extras have been released until July, while they film with the main players, who are unlikely to be released. There has still been no official word from Lucasfilm since announcing the departure of Lord and Miller.

 

This gap of almost three weeks could be for Lucasfilm to find a replacement, or if they already have one, it could be to plan a way to salvage what they seem to think is a problematic film. Firing the director(s) this late into production is practically unheard of and is incredibly drastic, but clearly, the multi-billion dollar franchise near and dear to all of our hearts is important to the folks at Lucasfilm – otherwise, they wouldn’t have taken a risk quite like this.

 

It is currently unclear whether this delay means the reshoots will also be delayed and therefore shift the whole post-production process back significantly – meaning if they can’t find a release by May 2018 and if the weeks after this don’t seem appropriate (if perhaps another tentpole is scheduled for release) then it could mean the still untitled Star Wars Story could see the same December release date that has now become expected since the Disney acquisition.

 

 

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46 thoughts on “Rumors Indicate that ‘Han Solo’ Extras Have Been Released but Production Continues!

  • June 21, 2017 at 5:26 pm
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    Man, I don’t know. I don’t really have an opinion about this director shake up, mostly because I’d like to focus on The Last Jedi and give very few shits about what’s happening with this film. Not sure having a new Star Wars film every year is such a great idea. MORE LAST JEDI NOW! Han Solo can wait his turn.

    • June 21, 2017 at 5:36 pm
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      Seriously. A new film every year is totally fine with me, if they were willing to switch their focus from creating stories around guaranteed “money makers” to just creating “good stories” that would by virtue of their interesting nature make money.

      • June 21, 2017 at 5:47 pm
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        Good is subjective…you can never get everyone to agree on what is good, especially online.

        • June 21, 2017 at 5:56 pm
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          True. I think I meant good to be more along the lines of let’s tell an original story about something that isn’t a spinoff of the big three (Han, Leia, Luke)

      • June 21, 2017 at 5:49 pm
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        I kind of liked the tradition of anticipation for the next film and now I have to anticipate two or three at a time. I find it more of a distraction than anything. It does feel like a cash grab. If we got a new movie every other year people would still be batshit happy. Perhaps I’m being one dimensional but I’m finding it difficult to care about more than one at a time. I can’t be totally immersed in TWO upcoming films set in the same universe. We’re getting more news about the Solo film than TLJ.

        • June 21, 2017 at 9:16 pm
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          What if we compromised and did one every 1.5 years? Keep the saga films as December releases every 3 years and then do an anthology film in between as a Summer release.

          • June 21, 2017 at 9:39 pm
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            Spreading them out a bit at all would be better.

      • June 21, 2017 at 9:11 pm
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        They want to milk the OT for all its worth, suck it dry like vampires. It was just revealed that the new Visceral’s game will be set between ANH and ROTJ. They just don’t dare go anywhere before E IV or much after it.

        • June 21, 2017 at 9:19 pm
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          :eye roll:

        • June 21, 2017 at 11:07 pm
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          And that’s the shame :/

        • June 21, 2017 at 11:19 pm
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          Well, haven’t we seen that Battlefront 2 will include Prequel Era content?

          • June 22, 2017 at 2:17 am
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            Yep, talking about Main Story

  • June 21, 2017 at 5:29 pm
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    Does anyone know if this movie butts right up against the cantina scene in the same way that Rogue One butts up against the beginning of a new hope. If it does, then Obi Wan and Luke could be some of the extras that are being released.

    • June 21, 2017 at 5:45 pm
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      I hope not. That would just be weird.

    • June 21, 2017 at 5:46 pm
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      No, it’s set 10 years before.

    • June 21, 2017 at 7:38 pm
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      Yes, but for continuity they are having Ehrenreich reshoot all of Han’s scenes in IV and V. Then in VI, new CG footage of Leia/Boushh will have her explain to Han that his appearance has changed do to the carbonite freezing.

      • June 21, 2017 at 7:51 pm
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        Since Han already died in TFA, shouldn’t he just be a force ghost in this movie anyway? i’d be perfectly fine with a directorless Ehrenreich force ghost Han solo movie with woody from cheers as the cantina bartender.

        • June 21, 2017 at 9:27 pm
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          Filling said postal worker with rage at the unfairness of the universe, and prompting him to join the Rebellion on Hoth.

          • June 21, 2017 at 9:29 pm
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            I like where youre going with this Crankypants. You can be my assistant director.

  • June 21, 2017 at 6:09 pm
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    “Firing the director(s) this late into production is practically unheard of and is incredibly drastic, but clearly, the multi-billion dollar franchise near and dear to all of our hearts is important to the folks at Lucasfilm – otherwise, they wouldn’t have taken a risk quite like this.”

    The appointment of Lord and Miller was a bit of a wild card in my opinion. I was always intrigued by it, and if they were willing to deliver a SW movie rather than their interpretation of it, then it could have worked. However, that was clearly not meant to be. It sounds like all parties tried to make it work, but ultimately the square peg round hole expression springs to mind. A lesser producer would have let the situation fly, but Kennedy made the touch choice.

    Is this a disaster? Perhaps. End of the world, nah! Worst case scenario the movie is delayed by 6 months.

    To put this into the perspective it deserves, go and watch the wonderful ‘Hearts of Darkness” documentary, and then watch ‘Apocalypse Now’.

    • June 21, 2017 at 6:28 pm
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      Hearts of Darkness is a favourite of mine. There’s an argument to be made that’s it’s just as good if not better than Apocalypse Now! Wonderful documentary about a fascinating story, good pull!

      • June 21, 2017 at 9:25 pm
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        Great documentary – follow it up with Lost In Lamancha (which, holy shit! Gilliam has ACTUALLY finished shooting Don Quixote!!!!!! IT’S THE END TIMES!!!!!!!) for a take that, while heartbreaking, WON’T want to make you open your wrists in a warm bath.

      • June 22, 2017 at 12:51 am
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        Yeah, both are masterpieces.

    • June 21, 2017 at 9:19 pm
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      Yeah, it’s impossible to judge until the final product is out. But the process is clearly a mess.

      • June 21, 2017 at 9:22 pm
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        Lord and Miller were the major piece that was bringing me around on this film. They’ve turned in numerous big budget, big studio films, and are clearly guys who are not difficult to work with or for, and who understand the reality of such a process. If they were unable to work within whatever structure LFL/Disney was trying to impose, then yes, absolutely agree, this at least suggests some very serious problems in the process as it currently is being implemented over there.

        • June 21, 2017 at 9:48 pm
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          It might be a simple difference in vision or too much improve. But clearly they made a mistake in hiring them, so that needs to be sorted.

        • June 22, 2017 at 3:55 am
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          Anyone notice JJ, Kasden, Rian Johnson and Trevorrow don’t seem to have any problem with Lucasfilm or KK.

          it just seems Disney and Lucasfilm want their spinoffs made a certain way

      • June 22, 2017 at 12:50 am
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        I have the trust and confidence that Kennedy and co will resolve this. It may be director less, but it ain’t direction less.

  • June 21, 2017 at 6:25 pm
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    Everybody keeps talking about replacement directors but a big delay in production could also mean they are forced to recast some parts due to scheduling conflicts ( i can imagine Emilia Clarke being busy with Game Of Thrones) This could have huge consequences on the rest of the film. Exorcist The Beginning comes to mind, a film where the studio was not pleased with the end result, fired Paul Shrader and hired Renny Harlin to shoot the whole movie once again. Both versions are available on dvd to compare and its strange to see some actors who have major parts in version 1 being reduced to extras in version 2.

    • June 21, 2017 at 9:18 pm
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      That’s doubtful. Reshoots are scheduled into contracts and they work around actors in those cases.

  • June 21, 2017 at 7:06 pm
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    The thing is… maybe the movie was good and different but not for a star wars film or disney vision of SW , anyway we’ll never know.

  • June 21, 2017 at 7:13 pm
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    December release date. Just wait.

  • June 21, 2017 at 8:35 pm
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    What an absolute clusterf**k this is turning out to be. This makes Rogue One production look like a walk in the park.

  • June 21, 2017 at 9:46 pm
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    Just cancel the damn film, we don’t need it and nobody wants it to happen.

    • June 21, 2017 at 11:10 pm
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      Speak for yourself.

    • June 22, 2017 at 12:42 am
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      Okay new plan… KOTOR

      • June 22, 2017 at 2:44 am
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        Still not happening as long as BioWare is still milking TOR for everything that it’s worth.

        Also, it’s not like they have a KOTOR script that’s just sitting there, waiting to be adapted. Or that this film is somehow preventing another movie from being made.

        – Pomojema

    • June 22, 2017 at 4:32 am
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      You are certainly free to want the film canceled.

      But what’s this “we” stuff?

  • June 22, 2017 at 3:58 am
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    Anyone notice JJ, Kasden, Rian Johnson and Trevorrow don’t seem to have any problem with Lucasfilm or KK.

    it just seems Disney and Lucasfilm want their spinoffs made a certain way

    • June 22, 2017 at 9:43 am
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      JJ and Trevorrow are lock step corporate company men who take their marching orders from the big studios, Kasden sold out over time as most directors do in old age and Johnson seems to be following in his footsteps.

      Edwards and Lord/Miller seem to be more pure creative types with indie steaks who care more about their actual films than the final payday.

      • June 22, 2017 at 3:14 pm
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        It almost seems that you have to be cooperative if someone lends you 200 Mio. to make a movie. Who would have thought that a director of a Star Wars Blockbuster has less freedom than a director of a kickstarter Indiefilm. What a surprise.

  • June 22, 2017 at 5:02 am
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    This movie was mistake from the start.

  • June 22, 2017 at 9:39 am
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    The part of this debacle is that we won’t get back to back SW films in less than a year. I wouldn’t be surprised if this film comes out after IX now.

    • June 22, 2017 at 6:04 pm
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      “I wouldn’t be surprised if this film comes out after IX now.”

      That’s extremely unlikely. they already found a replacement director.

  • June 22, 2017 at 4:26 pm
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    I’m happy for another Star Wars film, but a Han Solo film isn’t really anything I’m overly excited about, release it when it is ready..

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