Are you ready and excited, people? The ticket sales for Disney's SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY have started and the latest info is that they're surpassing the Black Panther ticket sales so far. It looks like it will be another box office hit from the Star Wars universe even though there were a lot of negative reactions on Alden Ehrenreich as the choice for the title role and there were also some major bumps along the road while the movie was in production and lost its original directors who apparently wanted to make it too parodic and were then replaced by good old Ron Howard. The film out May 25th in USA a day earlier in Europe, also
The movie will be longer than two hours!
stars Emilia Clarke as Qi'Ra, Chewbacca and Donald Glover as Lando
Calrissian. Thandie Newton and Paul Bettany.
SOLO'S SOLO STAR WARS STORY Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY an all-new adventure with the most beloved
scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep
within a
It's expected that Solo will earn between 150 and 200 million in the opening weekend
dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his
mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando
Calrissian,
The movie is set before 1977's A New Hope movie
in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star
Wars saga's most unlikely heroes.
MEET THE CREW
As you know Alden Ehrenreich has been chosen to play a younger version of Han Solo, intergalactic smuggler, scoundrel and also a hero. Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon, was one of the great leaders of the Rebel Alliance. Joonas Suotamo is hiding under the fur of his co-pilot Chewbacca whose wife you will also meet this time. Emilia Clarke is Qi'ra, who is only 18 years of age, but is already enmeshed in a life of crime, working for a gang
The crew of the Millennium Falcon is ready to meet you!
on Corellia. Donald Glover is Lando Calrissian, a smooth talking smuggler who will become a selfless leader of the rebellion against the Empire. Woody
Alden Ehrenreich is Solo, Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca
Harrelson is Tobias Beckett, a survivor, always quietly working out angles to come out ahead. He's assembled a team of specialized scoundrels to carry out risky but profitable heists. Thandie Newton is Val!
A no-nonsense and
Donald Glover is Lando, Emilia Clarke Qu'ira, Woody Harrelson Beckett
occasionally prickly woman who is a crack shot with a blaster rifle, she may be the most even-headed and capable member of Tobias Beckett's ragtag crew of scoundrels.
BBC has revealed 1st photos from their five part TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITE! We're waiting for the first trailer!
IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy), a young drawing master,
encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on Hampstead Heath. He
offers her assistance, but is later shocked to discover she has escaped
from a lunatic asylum.
The next day, Walter leaves London to take up a teaching post in the
village, working for Mr Frederick Fairlie (Charles
The series is based on the popular novel by Wilkie Collins
Dance), where he learns of a connection between his charming pupils, Laura Fairlie (Olivia Vinall) and Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley),
and the mysterious woman in white: she’s known to the household as Anne
Catherick,
Olivia Vinall and Jessie Buckley play the female leads in the series
a mentally handicapped child who grew up in the village.
Over the next few months, Walter and Laura Fairlie fall deeply in love,
however she is already promised in marriage to a baronet - Sir Percival
Glyde (Dougray Scott).
Ben Hardy takes the lead for the first time in a BBC series
When Laura receives a vicious letter
attacking Sir Percival, Walter thinks Anne, who has recently returned to
the village, might be responsible. He confronts her, only to uncover a
chilling truth about Laura’s betrothed – that it was he who put Anne in
the asylum.
'SOLO: STAR WARS STORY'
GETS A BRAND NEW TRAILER
Solo will first air at Cannes Film Festival
Disney has released a new trailer for their prequel movie SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY which will bring Han's origin story into cinemas May 25th! A rather doomed project which had to change its director in the middle of production and got mixed reaction for the first trailer and the choice of Alden Ehrenreich for the lead, is predicted to earn the lowest income of all Star Wars movies so far. Also starring Emilia Clarke as Qi'Ra, Woody Harrelson as Solo's mentor and Donald Glover as young Lando Calrissian, the movie will describe how Han Solo became the famed criminal of the galactic empire.
Chewbacca's wife is also set to appear in this one!
Opening first exclusively at Cannes Film Festival next month the science fiction adventure movie also stars Westworld's Thandie Newton.
Fresh trailers from last night's Super Bowl for you today, people! They were mostly for sequels, prequels and other lacks of movie imagination, but I'm sure you will find one or two that you'll like! Probably the biggest excitement was around SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY which Disney has scheduled for May release but I hear the fans are not amused by the trailer and Jurassic World teaser has seemingly stolen the spotlight both on You Tube and around the web. Posters have also been revealed with Alden Ehrenreich in the title role, Emilia Clarke as Qi'Ra, Chewbacca and Donald Glover as Lando
Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo in the movie
Calrissian. Thandie Newton and Paul Bettany also star in the movie.
SOLO'S SOLO STAR WARS STORY Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY 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
Han Solo should arrive into cinemas around the world this May
Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star
Wars saga's most unlikely heroes.
'JURASSIC WORLD 2' TRAILER
SAVE THE FALLEN KINGDOM!
Universal has released an exciting new trailer for their action adventure sequel JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM! Out June 22nd it
Chris Pratt's dinosaurs are in danger this June!
brings back Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard to the dinosaur park on Isla Nubar but this time to save them from a disaster instead of running in fear from them.
'SKYSCRAPER' TRAILER
STARRING DWAYNE JOHNSON!
Skyscraper is out in cinemas this July
Meanwhile, Dwayne Johnson wouldn't let Han Solo and Dinosaurs steal
the show, so he released a trailer for his SKYSCRAPER movie while
enjoying the success of Jumanji as his most lucrative movie ever to
date. In it he plays a man who assesses security for skyscrapers. On
assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world
suddenly ablaze, and he's been framed for it. A wanted man on the run,
he must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his
family who is trapped inside the building... above the fire line. The
movie is out in Northern American cinemas this summer, July 13th!
'WESTWORLD' TEASER
SEASON 2 IS BACK IN APRIL!
HBO has used the opportunity to air the first atmospheric trailer for the second season of their ultra expensive series WESTWORLD which comes
Thandie Newton rules the second season of Westworld
back April 22nd bringing chaos and destruction to the amusement park as you can see from the trailer starring Thandie Newton and Evan Rachel
2nd season might show us Roman, Chinese or Mediaeval parks too!
Wood! The story might delve into other theme parks that Delos Corp owns. The episodes will again air around the world a day after the US premiere. Peter Mullan is joining the cast as James Delos the founder of the park!
I know that most of you weren't overly happy when Alden Ehrenreichwas cast as the lead star in HAN SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY spin off movie, but you might be happy to hear that Me Before You and Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has just been cast by Disney as the female lead in the movie which should fly into cinemas May 2018 on the Millennium Falcon.
As you know the movie will describe the young days of captain Han
Solo and his trusted fury friend Chewbacca following their early
adventures ten years before the story of the Star Wars movies started.
Donald Glover has previously been cast as young Lando Calrissian, one of
the smugglers from the galactic underworld who will later on become an
important politician! It has been revealed that Han and Chewy will meet a
dynamic cast of characters during their adventures! The Lego Movie's
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing the film!
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS TRAILER
FOR 'A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' MINI SERIES
Meanwhile, Netflix has dropped the full trailer and poster for their A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS mini series which will be released around the world on January 13th! A small screen adaptation of
Lemony Snicket book's it brings the tragic tale of the Baudelaire
orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, whose evil guardian Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris)
will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The
siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious
plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their parents’ mysterious death. The eight episode series also stars Patrick Warburton, Joan Cusack, Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes.
TO LEAD 'HAN SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY' SPINOFF MOVIE
I'm sure the Star Wars fans among you have been following the hunt for the new star who will play young Han Solo in HAN SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY and now it is almost official - Alden Ehrenreich has got the role in the Christmas 2018 movie! Disney, LucasFilms and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have auditioned thousands of young Hollywood hopefuls for the role of the Millenium Falcon pilot in his early days but Alden has managed to beat the final rivals including Jack Reynor, Taron Egerton and Ansel Elgort. Swedish actor JoonasSuotamo will be playing Chewbacca in the movie about the early years of the two galactic scoundrels!
'DARKOVER' SF SERIES
FINDS ITS WRITERS! In TV news, something I've already announced now has writers: as
'Deadline' reports Amazon's TV series adaptation of Marion Zimmer
Bradley's sf classic saga DARKOVER which has 25 books translated into
almost 20 languages, will be written by MARCO POLO's hunk Patrick
Macmanus and LOST's Elizabeth Sarnoff who are also producing. It is a
mix of fantasy and science fiction, an ambitious tale tracing the
development of a civilization from its inadvertent founding on a distant
planet by a group of human colonists through war-torn feudal ages to
recontact 2,000 years later with their Earthly descendants.
