Ron Howard had delivered something really joyful.Īlden Ehrenreich did exactly what he needed to do. The audience laughed and cheered, and I was grinning ear to ear. The fun of Star Wars which was so drastically absent in The Last Jedi was here to feel onscreen. Cut to around 2.30am and I couldn’t have been happier. I’m seated with popcorn and for some reason the nerves about this film washed away. You’re gonna need it.’Ĭut to opening night. There was so much against this film from the start. ‘ If he loves it and thinks it’s funny then we’re in trouble.’ There were all the behind the scenes production woes that had played out so very publicly. I admit, I was one person who kept thinking – ‘ Do we really need Solo? No one else can be Harrison Ford!’ and then the night before Solo came out I read online that Rian Johnson loved the film. And then we have poor Solo, caught in the crossfire. For some, it was the greatest film since Empire for others it was an absolute disaster. For obvious reasons I won’t be treading over old ground here, but to put it fairly and simply….wherever you stand on that film it was clearly…disruptive, shall we say, to the fandom. We were just five short months out from the release of The Last Jedi. It’s safe to say that when Solo was released it was a deeply complicated time in fandom.
The Force Awakens, Rogue One and The Last Jedi all adhered to this, but Solo was the first film to be released in May since 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. Flashforward to the modern era under Disney and it was time for an annual Christmas release strategy.
These release dates always worked so well albeit we were in a different time, not only for the world but for how we consumed media. For the original and prequel trilogies we were used to a film every three years. In order to really appreciate this film we need to go back to the time it was released. Let’s dive past the Kessel Run and take a look. It’s hard to believe it’s been half a decade since the second anthology film in the Star Wars saga graced our screens but boy, this film has aged well.
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