Directorial wunderkinds Phil Lord and Chris Miller are boarding the Millennium Falcon – they will direct a “Star Wars Anthology” film focusing on everyone’s favourite smuggler, Han Solo.
Lord and Miller are coming off the triple successes of 21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie and 22 Jump Street. They are currently slated to write and produce both an animated Spider-Man movie for Sony and the highly-anticipated The Lego Movie Sequel.
Quite how their duties on Star Wars affects their commitment to The Flash for Warner Brothers remains unclear – that film also has a release date of early 2018 – but they could still remain on writing duties.
Lucasfilm stalwart Lawrence Kasdan will write this Anthology film with his son Jon.
It is important to note that this is not the same Anthology film that Josh Trank departed earlier this year – that film is still searching for a replacement director.
No casting for the Han Solo Anthology film has been announced but get ready for every rising male Hollywood star to be in the running. Who would you like to see play the iconic character?
Sources: THR and Star Wars.com