Solo: A Star Wars Story is THIS close to exploding onto movie screens all over the place and we have a new interview with writers Jon and Lawarence Kasdan posted over on StarWars.com. The one and only dandy Dan Brooks spent some time speaking with the father/son duo ahead of the standalone film’s release. The interview, which covers a range of interesting topics, is quite lengthy but definitely worth every second of your time, as is all interviews conducted by Brooks.
Check out the intro to the StarWars.com piece copied below. Be sure to also check out what Jon and Lawrence had to say about the various films that influenced the script for Solo as well as their recent appearance on The Star Wars Show if you missed them initially.
The name “Kasdan” looms large in Star Wars and Lucasfilm history. After all, it was Lawrence Kasdan who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and 30 years later, The Force Awakens. He also scripted a movie about an adventuring archaeologist called Raiders of the Lost Ark. (Not bad bullet points to have on a résumé.) So it goes without saying that Star Wars owes a great deal to Kasdan’s innate talent for crafting smart action, witty dialogue, and developing themes with resonance.
Yet for the massive imprint he’s left on a galaxy far, far away, it’s Solo: A Star Wars Story — which follows Han, pre-original trilogy, on his journey to becoming the nerf herder we all love — that might be the Star Wars film that means the most to him personally: Kasdan conceived and wrote Solo with his son Jonathan, an accomplished filmmaker in his own right. In advance of the May 25 release of Solo, StarWars.com spoke to the father and son team about why Han was so exciting in A New Hope, how there was never any doubt that Alden Ehrenreich would play the young scoundrel, and why they wanted Solo to be unlike any previous Star Wars film. “It’s a rite of passage,” the elder Kasdan would say of their story. But that statement rings true for father and son, as well.
