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Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan wroteSolo : A Star Wars Story , Lawrence ’s fourth time writing aStar Warsfilm . Besides Lawrence Kasdan , only George Lucas has been more influential to theStar Warssaga . Recently , they talked about their dear for the series and the things that avail inspireSolo . Screen Rant sat down with the Kasdan ’s to talk about the some of theStar Warsdeep cut reference inSoloand the time to come of Lawrence Kasdan continuing on with the pop franchise .
Screen blah : So first of all , I love this pic . It ’s great . It ’s so much fun . So much sport . And it ’s exactly what I wanted to see with Han Solo . And Lando Calrissian is my favorite character .
Lawrence Kasdan : He ’s my favorite in this movie too .
Screen fustian : He ’s a great . Steals everything . So did you guys read any of the Legends novels or stories throughout the years and did it have any influence on the story that you say with this ?
Lawrence Kasdan : I did not . But Jon knows a good deal more about that than I did . You know , I ’ve written four of these movies . And I have not read one novel .
Screen Rant : Really ? Interesting .
Jonathan Kasdan : I ’m more deeply engulf in it . But I ’ll distinguish you what we did do is , you make love , we ’re , big thing here in the Kasdan family . We ’re big fans of the Wookieepedia . It ’s a great resourcefulness . And we would have moments when we were pen where we would say , " Well what ’s the canyon or non - canon explanation for this thing . " And then we go into Wookieepedia , the two of us sit at the calculator and we ’d go down a rabbit mess about like the chronicle of the Falcon or our preferent problem , which is the realness of where those things , guns are located , on top or bottom .
Lawrence Kasdan : And how do you get there , how you orient when you go in there ?
Jonathan Kasdan : And we ’d spend two hours looking at this stuff and nonsense and then we ’d intend like , " Well , if this is exposed sourced , how do we know we ’re not just listening , to like , some fry , from like , Iowa . "
Lawrence Kasdan : And then you realize , " What difference does it make ? "
Jonathan Kasdan : Exactly .
Jonathan Kasdan : So we , we use that a ton . And I have a loose familiarity with some of the stuff . And we sort of make out how to use what we , what was utilitarian , and how to sort of keep it in the kingdom of what the movie we wanted to make . Which was really this sort of Michael Mann - ion crime pic .
Screen Rant : Yeah . merriment rip-off movie . And , and the thing I loved is there ’s a point where you ca n’t trust anyone .
Lawrence Kasdan : That ’s the underlying theme .
Screen Rant : I bonk that . Watching this motion-picture show , I observe there ’s a ton ofStar WarsEU ( Expanded Universe ) deep cut . Like Aurra Sing . I was like , " hold back . Did I hear that correct ? " Also , Kira ’s scrap fashion mentioned-
Jonathan Kasdan : Teras Kasi . You got to purchase a Game Boy to play Teras Kasi practically .
Screen Rant : Exactly .
Lawrence Kasdan : Where is it mentioned ?
Jonathan Kasdan : It ’s a game- Where did she say it ?
Lawrence Kasdan : No , where it ’s mentioned from ?
Jonathan Kasdan : It ’s from a fighting panache that was developed in the canon sort of . It was part of Maul ’s thing .
Screen Rant : There ’s even a Bossk reference . So with that , whose decision was it to choose all these ? Aurra Sing to me was the one that was like , oh wow , that ’s really interesting .
Jonathan Kasdan : You ’re looking at him . I was passionate about every one of those references .
Lawrence Kasdan : And Bossk is especially interesting .
Jonathan Kasdan : I was trying to get them in the motion-picture show , you roll in the hay , very severely . And I think that if there ’s ever another one of these , you ’re go to have to either stamp out me or Bossk will be in it .
Screen Rant : Well , I ’m hoping that Bossk is in it . I ’d love to see Bossk .
Jonathan Kasdan : Me too , I ’m a immense fan .
Lawrence Kasdan : I ’m doing a spinoff it .
Jonathan Kasdan : All right . Well , I ’ve rather you write it and I ’ll amount in and fix it .
Lawrence Kasdan : Yeah , well , perhaps not .
Screen Rant : sole , Lawrence Kasdan is writing the Bossk-
Jonathan Kasdan : Yeah , he ’s writing the Bossk movie . Aurra Sing is another quality that comes originally out of the prequels . She was a gravid mo of design . She became a entire morsel of cosplay fun . And I thought this is on the nose the kind of soul that would beef up Beckett ’s reputation . And one of the gift of Star Wars , and I conceive it ’s , you know , it ’s true to these movies , is that you always come in with a lot of hooey having happen off filmdom , that you’re able to reference . And it ’s , it ’s fun . It feels like , " What happened there ? " And it happens when the first view with Han and A New Hope . And we definitely need to keep that custom live .
Screen Rant : The aspect with Chewbacca , when he ’s freeing the other , by the way , if there ’s any spoilers , I ’ll put this out after the picture show comes out .
Jonathan Kasdan : We do n’t care .
Screen Rant : With Chewbacca , when he frees all the other Wookiees . I freaked out a little bit because I think , " Well , maybe Malla is in this and this ties into the Holiday Special . " Can you reassert or abnegate that Malla was-
Jonathan Kasdan : Ever ? It ’s not Malla . In fact that is a unlike character . In fact , we could tell you the name of that grapheme . That was Sagwa . And he was always in the script . There was always a translation of that fibre in the script . And where Chewie met him and then at what level was always sort of something that we were playing around with , but we wanted to have another major Wookiee character . And as it evolve we really wanted was to have him be , like , a petty mo of a stoner . So that ’s why he does that thing , where he wish , rubs his hair . Because he ’s like , we reckon like in my imaginativeness , his voice was like , " Hey , what ’s up dude ? " He was like the Bill and Ted .
Lawrence Kasdan : I have a picture , we write in my app , is its pic on my wall which is from A New Hope . When Chewie ’s coming up from the smuggling embayment and Han ’s already sitting on the boundary and he hand out and rough in his haircloth . Which has always been my , one of my favorite moments .
Screen Rant : That ’s amazing . Obviously with a character reference like Han Solo , he ’s a classic , buff sleep together him . And this is like a Han Solo biopic , right ? And you have to get it right . And you impinge on every beat to make that happen . So can you talk to me that some of the challenges that you knew you were going to confront go into this ?
Jonathan Kasdan : You know , I was immediately drawn to doing this and I never saw it as a challenge . It kind of goes like riches . And we could go in there and we were n’t extend to get them all . We did n’t need to get ' em all . They wanted to pick the ones that most playfulness for us . And then you say , " Well , I ’ve never empathize what happened exactly in the Kessel Run . How much is he lie ? And what is a secpar anyway ? " You have sex , it ’s not a measure of time . It ’s a measure of distance . And I desire to hear the backstory . Because all my interest in Han take up in the Cantina . In that crocked economical magnificent scene , one of the neat scenes ever . You get so much information , so much implication of what his chronicle is , including scud Greedo . That was like the font of the whole movie to me .
Screen ranting : I completely agree with you . Everything pays off the direction , when you watch it , that imagine , how I guess it to . So that ’s what I make love about it . Now , Lawrence , you had said that this might be your lastStar Warsfilm .
Lawrence Kasdan : Might be .
Jonathan Kasdan : That ’s for trusted .
Lawrence Kasdan : Never , never say never .
Screen Rant : But Jonathan , so with you , would you want to pick up the mantle and kind of do more Solo film or would you even be concerned in doing a Lando film ?
Jonathan Kasdan : I would . Well , first of all I ’m die to see a Lando picture . I would aid in anyway I was asked to . I conceive that ’s a great picture . I intend , I think you know one of the things though that ’s interesting is , I desire to see a Lando film very like way to the direction I think Larry was excited by a Han film . Which is in this movie , Lando gets to fill , the role that Han occupied in the earliest films , which is he does n’t have to carry the burden of being the protagonist . He gets to have all the jocularity . He get to be the foil , you know . So one of the knavish challenges of making a Lando movie is , suddenly Lando is at the center of it . He , somebody else is belong to step into that function of being the , maybe even Han , you know . So it ’s a fun universe to play around and then think about what we can do with it . for certain , as much as Larry insists he ’s done , he could n’t have , we could n’t have written a picture more pregnant with possible action for future adventure , so I do n’t trust him a hundred percent .
Screen Rant : And hey , peradventure not as popular as Han and Chewie , but Lando and Lobot .
Jonathan Kasdan : Absolutely . Well , if there , and if there is a Lando motion-picture show , it ’s hard to imagine doing it without Lobot .
Jonathan Kasdan : Since he was one of the greatest DJ ’s in the galaxy in an early life history .
Screen Rant : He was definitely . Now with everything , thatSolo- Everything looked very practical and all the determined slice looked amazing . So can you talk to me about some of the favorite scenes , actual scene that you enjoyed writing on this one ?
Jonathan Kasdan : There were a lot . Because actually our pathfinder when we sat down was , " What ’s the serious thing that can bechance now ? What ’s the next affair that can happen now ? " So it was kind of ready our own greatest hits , cram them into the movie . And we wanted to just do as , anything like that where , we want it to be honourable to the chronicle , but we did n’t feel any responsibility to polish off anything specially .
Screen Rant : Interesting . Star Warscharacters , so many and they ’re so productive and there ’s so many out there . What other persona would you like to see on their , no pun intended , but , solo adventure ?
Jonathan Kasdan : Honestly , I do n’t make love . I entail it sort of the machination of how Kathy is going to expand this empire is something that ’s closely guarded and even she wo n’t narrate us exactly what she want to do . But she , there ’s for certain so , this period of time that were in . These 10 years prior to A New Hope , are so fat with character reference that you know in cross section as you say , Bossk . And , you know , the view in the , in the Star Destroyer where you see those bounty hunters go by . I think they all could potentially intersect with the stories we ’re telling . And certainly Jaba is a character we blab out a lot about having in this movie , and was there a home for him , and you know , is this thing rich enough to hold more moving picture ? If so-
Lawrence Kasdan : The suggestion is that this criminal underworld is full of people we ’ve never gather . In the 10 years between this moving-picture show and A New Hope , Han has on his dealings with scads .
Screen Rant : That ’s my favorite part of theStar Warsuniverse actually is the underworld . I ca n’t wait .
Jonathan Kasdan : perfectly . And too , you eff , I ’ve always , I was passionate from the beginning about who execute the crime organization . And you have it away , when we got to see his mechanical legs arise up and , you know , I require to know his taradiddle . I want to see that on pic .
Lawrence Kasdan : A luck of theatrical role that have tremendous shock .
