The forthcoming Han Solo movie is shrouded in secrecy as it heads towards shooting, and while Lucasfilm are keeping schtum on the film which will be directed by The Lego Movie‘s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, cinematographer Bradford Young spoke with Collider and spilled a few beans. Apparently we’re in for a very different Star Wars movie to anything we’ve seen before.
“Don’t put those guys in a box because they have a vision, they know exactly what they want,” The DP said of his two directors. “They have no hidden agenda, but they do have an agenda; they have a way of seeing that’s very special, and their collaboration is genuinely unique.”
“So I have to say I had to get converted into that. I respect their work, I respect them as filmmakers, but I wasn’t quite sure if there would be a good marriage between what I’m trying to pursue and the work that I’m doing and what they’re doing, but they helped make that real clear to me early on by expressing some real interesting story [and] photographic ideas that really resonated with me,” he added.
He went on.
“They are prepared to say exactly what they wanna say and it’s complex, it’s layered, it’s smart, it’s visual, it’s dramatic, it’s funny, it’s uneasy, it’s unexpected. We’re doing our own thing, that’s why we’re there. Phil and Chris are there to bring what they bring to their films, their very unique vision, their perspective on story and they asked me to come bring what I bring, and so just for that it won’t feel like any of the other films.”
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Shooting on the as yet untitled Han Solo film kicks off in early 2017, and will hit cinemas on May 25, 2018.
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