What Could Have Been: Lord and Miller’s Solo

Taking a look at why Lord and Miller were fired from "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and revealing what footage of theirs remained in the final film.

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 Intro
1:22 Recasting Harrison Ford
2:23 Alden Ehrenreich's Acting Coach
2:41 Improvisation
4:19 Lord and Miller Scenes Still in the Movie
6:19 The Kessel Run
6:44 Michael K. Williams as Dryden Vos
7:21 Lord and Miller’s Vision

[ajingogliafilms]

Imagine getting the role of a lifetime…and then having a supporting role in Cocaine bear years later…Hollywood can be brutal lol.

[NickMichalak]

A lot of the downfall of this era has been lack of pre-planning and the execs getting on the same page as the filmmakers. I’m talking in-depth and crafting the vision from the inside out, back to front. It got too hands off until it became over intrusive. A lot of these issues with Rogue One & Solo shouldn’t have happened three quarters of the way through production. They should’ve been dealt with far earlier.

[joshbaker]

Thank you for revealing what Lord and Miller shot, I didn't know before this video

[franciscodanconia]

I liked Solo, but I did feel like they had a checklist of iconic Han Solo Things they had to check off in the script. How does he meet Chewie? How does he get his blaster? How does he get his wardrobe? How does he meet Lando? How does he get the Falcon?

[trekkiejunk]

I really wish they had hired that actor that played a young Harrison Ford in some other movie a few years ago. He's a pretty good actor, and actually looks and sounds like Ford. There's a video of him on YouTube doing a Ford impression, as i think he was angling for the role some years back. EDIT: Anthony Ingruber is the actor's name.

[Cyrila]

The biggest issue with this film is it makes no sense. They spend the entire picture telling us that you don't betray driden vos only to have Woody betray him in the most ridiculous way at the most ridiculous time for no reason. It would have been so easily fixed. Just make woody angry with Dryden because of Val's death on the train job, and have the whole movie about him trying to get face to face with Dryden so he can kill him and get revenge. Very few changes need to happen. Have them not meet dryden until the end, have a few shots of Woody visibly upset about val's death and make it clear he wants revenge. The rest of the movie is pretty much the same. Such a shame

[jonldavis]

I wish Solo would of gotten released before the Last Jedi.
I think it would of done much better.
I think the characters created in Solo were much stronger than other Disney Star Wars movies.

[cane]

They could have taken a Kelly's Heroes approach to storytelling, with Han being disaffected imperial soldier who was demoted for doing right thing, and was transferred to a demoralizing posting for his trouble were has to guard lute stolen by the empire, with Chewbacca being a slave he befriend. The heist resolves around Han and Chewie being the inside guys, beckett and crew being the ones conducting it, and Lando being the ringleader who funds and supplies whole thing and acts as Black market connection who will sells the good. Voss would be a crime lord who with connections to high ranking imperial officials who launders money from sold stolen lute on their behalf, and has been tasked by them to to get back their merchandise, and if he fails, he takes the fall. Think Guy Ritchie meets Kelly Heroes.

[dragon_ninja_]

As much as I had fun with Howard’s film, would’ve loved to have seen Lord and Miller’s take. Definitely would’ve been more funny, maybe the most funniest Star Wars movie.

[eamonclark]

I think Solo is the most underrated Star Wars film. Alden Ehrenreich’s Han Solo is the best part of the film for me. As much as Ron Howard’s cut of the film is good as it is it would’ve been awesome to see Lord and Millers cut

[chrisolivo]

Solo is the one film I really liked from Disney Star Wars (I also liked Rogue One, but not as much).

Howard did something in Solo that is lacking in Rogue One, I cared about the characters. Howard has a unique style in that many of his films feel like a guilty pleasure, but he does a good job of focusing on the characters and that gives the movie heart.

Solo harkens back to the Original Trilogy style where it’s just a fun movie and doesn’t take itself too seriously. When Star Wars try to be some grandiose story, I think it usually falls flat like The Prequels and The Last Jedi. I get it that Solo is not for everyone as there is no mention of the Force, but I enjoyed and it’s the one Disney film I’ll defend.

[SamuelHereAmI]

I loved that Solo Movie.. I know it could have been so much more. They definitely cast the best person they could for Han imo.

[phrasedeyebro]

Your videos are so spot on, sometimes I get so bummed I can’t make it through. Gentle anger suppressed. This one was very enjoyable. I do hope that makes sense.

[shawnkarg]

Solo had a lot of issues, but I think the biggest misstep was cramming so much of the lore into this one movie. Considering this was originally slated to be the start of a trilogy, you don't throw in the kitchen sink on the first installment.

[dustingmyguitars]

This was actually my favorite of the disney star wars movies. And most of the stuff I like turns out to be from Lord and Miller. It's not great as a movie, but that opening scene is so it does have some cool moments.

[DoroteoVilla]

Lord and Miller are brilliant.

Just look at Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Lego Movie and yeah, 21 Jump Street. They're so fresh but also, nail imaginative action and get the best out of their actors.

My most anticipated movie of 2024/25 is their adaptation of the Andy Weir novel Project Hail Mary. I predict it will be the best movie of whatever year it is released.

[bonejuice]

Would love to know who idea it was to shoehorn Darth Maul at the very end…

[derkeheath]

This is the closest a modern Star Wars movie has come to roping me in since the original trilogy, which is surprising considering that I never wanted a Solo movie to begin with. It still had WAY too much plot (should have focused strictly on the train job) - I kind of checked out for a while during the bloated second half until it picked back up for the finale. Woody's final scene was hilarious, but it was the only humor in the film that really 100% worked for me and felt like Star Wars.
From what I've read, Alden was hired because his father was a lawyer for Stephen Spielberg, and Spielberg really pushed for him to be hired.

[tino]

There is something quite unnerving about hearing how much the crew detested Lord and Miller on the set of Solo to the point that they were honestly happy and cheering when they were taken off the project, now with the knowledge of how Lord and Miller were with Across the Spider-verse

[mattl]

SOLO - could have been a TV series - the episodic adventures of a likeable scoundrel with shifting allegiances and a gunslinger attitude trying to make a quick buck in a tyrannical galaxy and his occasional run-ins with Jabba, Boba and Lando; shootouts with gang members, pirates and stormtroopers; girls in every port and getting around in the coolest spaceship ever...