Show Notes
In October 2012, Lawrence Kasdan was asked if he wanted to write another Star Wars film.
He didn't. But when he went to turn down George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy in person, someone mentioned they also wanted to make a Han Solo movie.
Five and a half years later, Solo: A Star Wars Story became the first ever Star Wars box office bomb. You think you know what happened, but exactly how Solo went off the rails is a much more complicated, nuanced and unhinged tale than you might have imagined. This isn't the story of a film going wrong - it's the story of one that could never have gone right.
And it starts, and in some ways ends, with Lawrence and Jonathon Kasdan's script.
CLIPS:
On Story 1011: A Conversation With Lawrence Kasdan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Original Star Wars Audition Tapes
Solo: A Star Wars Story Sound Bites (Lucasfilm Press Pack)
The Star Wars Show: Solo Writers Lawrence and Jonathon Kasdan on Scripting Chewbacca’s Lines, Plus A New TV Spot
Springsteen on Broadway (Netflix)
MUSIC:
"Western Streets", "Bicycle", "Hot Pursuit", "Bleeping Demo", "Neo Western", "Sax Rock And Roll, "Rollin At 5", "Odyssey", "Slow Burn", "Deep Haze", "Screen Saver", "Intrepid", "Floating Cities", "Black Vortex", "Crowd Hammer", "Hiding Your Reality", "Mystery Sax",
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Synapse" & "Quiescent In Time" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
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