New ‘Solo’ TV Spot: Han Solo Has A Really Good Feeling About This
A newSoloTV spot is here, offering even more exciting footage of the highly-anticipatedStar Wars Anthologyfilm. Best of all: this TV spot finally allowsAlden Ehrenreich’s Han Solo to get a word or two in.
Expect the marketing forSolo: A Star Wars Storyto increase substantially the closer we get to release. A new TV spot for theStar Warsfilm is here, and it looks pretty darn good. The two previous trailers coupled with the footage here suggests that directorRon Howardmay defy the odds and pull this somewhat troubled film off.
Solo TV Spot
The biggest takeaway from this TV spot: Solo can talk! The previousSolotrailers seemed to dance around actor Alden Ehrenreich’s portrayal of everyone’s favoriteStar Warssmuggler. Ehrenreich had a few words here and there in previous trailers, but there was a sense that the trailer editors were cuttingaroundhis performance, which only seemed to lead to more wild speculation. DuringSolo’s production, word broke that an acting coach was brought in to help Ehrenreich nail down his performance. Later, ananonymous sourceclose to the film said, “Alden’s not a bad actor — just not good enough.”
But I have my doubts about that source, especially because Ehrenreich’s previous performances (particularly inHail, Caesar!) suggest he is “good enough”, and more so. Thankfully, this TV spot shows off more of hisSoloperformance, and it looks good. I’ll admit that Ehrenreich acts andsoundsnothing like Harrison Ford’s Han Solo. But it’s important to keep in mind that this film is set a few yearsbeforeHan Solo becomes the Han Solo we know fromA New Hope. Ehrenreich confirmed this himself in arecent interview, where he said that the Han we see inSolois “younger, [and] more of an idealist; he has a romantic vision [of his criminal lifestyle].”
All in all,Sololooks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to see it.
Solo: A Star Wars Story, starring Alden Ehrenreich,Woody Harrelson,Emilia Clarke,Donald Glover,Thandie Newton,Phoebe Waller-Bridge,Joonas Suotamo, andPaul Bettany, opensMay 25, 2018.
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in “Solo: AStar WarsStory,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of theStar Warssaga’s most unlikely heroes.
