SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Scrapped Sequence Featured An Epic Showdown Atop The Millennium Falcon

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Scrapped Sequence Featured An Epic Showdown Atop The Millennium Falcon

Concept art from Solo: A Star Wars Story has revealed than an earlier version of the 2018 film featured an epic showdown on TOP of the Millennium Falcon, with the main inspiration being 1994's True Lies!

By Nighthawk01 - Jul 16, 2020 12:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars

Solo: A Star Wars Story was released in 2018, though the version of the film that ended up in theaters wasn't the one original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller had planned. Lucasfilm took control of the spinoff away from The LEGO Movie directors midway through production after their penchant for letting actors improvise led to major creative differences. 

Veteran filmmaker Ron Howard later took charge of the film, and some concept art shared by Vincent Jenkins reveals an action sequence which may or may not have been a Lord and Miller idea.

Inspired by True Lies, it shows an exciting showdown atop the Millennium Falcon between Han Solo and an unknown villain. We're presuming that's Dryden Vos, though the #Sith hashtag could well be an indication that the smuggler was once going to cross paths with Maul. 

Unfortunately, a "Lord/Miller Cut" of Solo is unlikely given how much the film was reshaped in their absence.

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Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 7/16/2020, 12:24 PM
I've chosen to believe that it's this sequence from True Lies that was going to be performed atop the Millennium Falcon.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 7/16/2020, 12:35 PM
@Reeds2Much -

OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 7/16/2020, 12:27 PM
There were a lot of editing/plot stuff that wasn't really well handled in SOLO, but I thought pretty much every action sequence was dope. The train stuff was great and Kessel Run was really fun, but all the smaller fights/skirmishes were also well put together. Would love future Star Wars movies to focus on being that dynamic. It's really at it's best when it throws all the elements of the lore into a blender and lets the writing decide how things play out
demery
demery - 7/16/2020, 12:47 PM
I was thinking how there should've been a scene of that in Episode 9 with a task force of sorts catching up and attaching wires or such on the Falcon ala The Dark Knight Rises. It would've been something new with the ship and added stakes in terms of how the villains seem to be one step ahead. It'd also show how badly Kylo wants to crush everything in his path (methodically or not) because he's in it for himself at this point to show everyone who he truly is without his connections to Jedis and Siths.
TheDpool
TheDpool - 7/17/2020, 1:41 AM
Zooming in, it looks like a dance of if anything. There's also a babyyoda hashtag so the sith one doesn't give me any indication.

I love that Solo is finally getting the love it deserves. Heard nothing but hate about it for so long.

Seriously a Alden Ehrenreich led Disney+ show would be amazing. Six episodes of Han and Chewie going from smuggling adventures.
Episode two ends with them being told of a job on tatooine, episode three they meet jabba. Episode five they meet Boba Fett for the first time.
Throw in a brief Kenobi series McGregor walking passed them and boom you've got a show.
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