LEGO Star Wars: Han Solo Product Dates Suggest Film Will Still Arrive In May 2018

Han Solo has been through a lot in the past few weeks as production came to an abrupt halt so close to the completion of principal photography. But the show must go on with Ron Howard in the director’s chair, and from what the product listings are indicating, it seems likely that the film will still hit theaters in time for its planned May 2018 release date in spite of the issues present.

 

 

From Brick Fanatics:

Brick Fanatics has received information suggesting that the LEGO Star Wars range for the Han Solo stand alone movie will launch on April 20, 2018.

Despite the production woes, the release date is still currently scheduled for 25 May 2018, which would put the LEGO – and presumably wider – merchandise launch just a month ahead of the movie. This is unusual in recent years, but is similar to how the merchandise was rolled out for the prequels.

 

I should note, however, that just because a product is set to arrive at a certain date doesn’t mean that the thing the product is meant to tie in with will arrive at the same time – some of the toys for The Force Unleashed, for instance, arrived a few months ahead of the release of the game because the title was delayed. (I think they were the “Evolution” pack based on what Galen “Starkiller” Marek looked like in the main game and the Dark Side and Light Side endings, but there were probably a few other bits of merch that arrived way ahead of the game.)

 

However, with this in mind, these LEGO sets are either going to be consistent with the Prequel Trilogy merchandise waves or they’ll be consistent with Disney’s strategy that was shown for promoting The Force Awakens and Rogue One, and soon The Last Jedi. This would be to say that the merchandise hits four months or so before the movie itself does (if a delay to release the movie at a later point in the Summer is deemed necessary). It’s incredibly unlikely (read: borderline impossible) for Han Solo‘s release date to be moved to 2019, as Lucasfilm seems to indicate that they currently want only one movie out per year – no more, no less.

 

 

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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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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.

15 thoughts on “LEGO Star Wars: Han Solo Product Dates Suggest Film Will Still Arrive In May 2018

  • July 4, 2017 at 8:52 pm
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    Aliens, Casino Royale, Terminator 2, and The Wrath Of Khan are all classics because they did the smart thing and took their time to make them great even though it took much longer than usual rather than rush them to meet a fixed deadline. Fuck, Even 2009 Star Trek came 7 years after Nemesis and though I didn’t care for that one at all it is easily the best in the reboot series though that’s not saying much.

    I’d rather have films like that which are still held in high esteem decades later than more disposable MCU type product which is quickly forgotten and only loved by blind fanboys.

    • July 5, 2017 at 1:26 am
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      Agreed on everything except that Star Trek Beyond is much better than the 2009 one 😉

      • July 5, 2017 at 3:03 am
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        Second that, Beyond is my top nu trek film too. Feels like old trek in disguise.
        I’d rather them delay too, but maybe they don’t need it. The lack of shots for the editing bay is concerning.

    • July 5, 2017 at 6:09 am
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      I loved Star Trek 2009. Awesome film and best of the 3 films.

    • July 5, 2017 at 11:13 am
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      Not sure about the other films you mention, but STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN *was* rushed to meet a fixed deadline. The film was already booked into theaters for a June 1982 release before Nicholas Meyer was hired, had written a single word, or directed a frame of film. This was late August 1981. He delivered his first draft (a page one rewrite of previous writers’ drafts) in an astonishingly fast 12 days in early September 1981. Principle photography began two months later!

      http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_II%3A_The_Wrath_of_Khan#Production_history

  • July 5, 2017 at 2:56 am
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    They’re likely going only one month ahead to give TLJ toys as much shelf time as they can. That is obvious, I know, but no one in the article seemed to figure it out.

  • July 5, 2017 at 3:39 am
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    EP8 filming wrapped 22nd July 2016 & will be released Dec this year ,
    Han Solo will wrap filming a while after July 22nd & they still think they can get it out May 2018 ? sounds like it’s going to be rushed to me …..

    • July 5, 2017 at 4:28 am
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      Keep in mind that TLJ is scheduled to be done with post production before summer ends, and will be sitting finished in a can for 3 months before its release. They could technically drop the film early in the fall if they wanted to, but December seems to be the lucky time-slot.

      • July 5, 2017 at 8:28 pm
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        That’s not what I heard… I thought Johnson had said somewhere that he will be editing until the last possible second.

        + when TFA was in post they were tweaking the CGI, some scenes between the April Trailer & the October Trailer had drastically changed.

        It is rushed… they need to delay this! It will only suffer for this ambiguous rational for keeping dates set no matter what. Star wars films used to take 3 or 4 years to complete, and it showed.

        • July 6, 2017 at 2:20 am
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          Have you ever considered decaf?

          • July 6, 2017 at 9:57 am
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            No I just miss quality production. Don’t get me wrong TFA & Rogue One looked great but OT & even (some) PT in comparison were groundbreaking for their time. Films haven’t been breaking new ground in a long time… not like the old SW films.

          • July 6, 2017 at 2:59 pm
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            Game of Thrones has been churning out the equivalent of a 10-hour epic fantasy film of the highest caliber every year for the last 7 years. So with great writers and a solid production team, anything is possible.

            Is a 40-year-old franchise that’s steeped in nostalgia ever again going to “break new ground”? Perhaps not — but TFA gave me the first Star Wars character in 30+ years that I actually feel emotionally invested in, so at least that’s something

            (And what I said about TLJ being ahead of schedule is very true — just google it.)

          • July 7, 2017 at 12:28 pm
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            I looked it up and Rian says his part will be complete in august *but* according to numerous articles I’ve been reading Lucasfilm will continue to tweak the film. Like I said, Lucasfilm was still doing CGI work on TFA until weeks before TFA’s release.

            Game of Thrones looks great for a TV show but I wouldn’t put the special FX on par with some of the modern blockbusters (some). Though the practical FX / costumes in GOT are outstanding.

            Even though the film wasn’t nearly as good as it could have been, the FX for “Interstellar” I thought were the best that I’ve seen in a loooong time. Pan’s Labyrinth also comes to mind… there’s just something about the care taken with those films that’s missing in some new features. I guess we’ll see with Rian’s film though, I forgot to mention Looper which is another standout.

  • July 6, 2017 at 1:07 am
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    Not surprising.

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