Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's firing was a shock when it was first announced. Many fans were pointing fingers in several directions, whether that be Kathleen Kennedy, Lawrence Kasdan or the directing pair themselves. Overtime, long after the release of the Star Wars spinoff, fans are still wondering what a Lord and Miller Solo: A Star Wars Story would have been like. But if that firing never happened, we may not have gotten the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Lego Movie 2 finished products everyone is raving about.
When Lego Movie 2 director Mike Mitchell was asked by io9 how the film was affected after Solo.
The storytelling got more efficient. [The Lego Movie 2] is really a complicated story to tell...so when they came back into town I felt like I had a couple more people to bounce story stuff off of. Not to mention those guys are hilarious so the film got funnier. Those guys can’t help but add weird gags everywhere.
Phil Lord furthered Mitchell's statement by adding
Obviously we were able to spend a lot of time on these movies and it’s, I think, our good luck that we got to spend so much time making movies we care about. And, you know, we were really passionate about both of these films and it was a real opportunity for us to be able to really dig in on both of them and be really involved in every aspect of the production.
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