Ron Howard

We’ve got some new clues to the reason the most famous spaceship in Star Wars looks so different in its new incarnation.

The ‘Han Solo’ director teases a look at a cockpit, but what ship is it from?

We can expect to see a lot of Han Solo’s past played out in the movie — especially that game of dice with which he wins the Millennium Falcon.

Another day, another tweet from Ron Howard on the set of the untitled Han Solo movie. This time, we get to see some actual footage! Well, not really. It’s a photo of actual footage, and a blurry one at that. But still, there’s plenty of room for some speculation, especially about where in the galaxy our heroes could possibly be.

Ron Howard and Clint Howard are one of those Hollywood director-actor pairs that you often see working together on projects, and the upcoming Han Solo movie will be no different. Ron Howard, especially active on social media since taking over the Star Wars spinoff, recently revealed that his brother would have a role in the untitled Han Solo film, continuing a long-lasting tradition.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller assembled a dream team to create their Han Solo spinoff Star Wars anthology film. The cast is incredible: Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, and Alden Ehrenreich as the young Solo. The screenplay was by longtime Star Wars creative force Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon. The cinematographer was Bradford Young, whose quickly proven himself as one of the most talented young D.P.s in the business with films like Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Selma, and Arrival. If you’re gonna make a Han Solo movie, these sure seem like the men and women you want to do it with.

Now the story of a saga a long time ago and a galaxy far, far away, and the one Jedi that had no choice but to keep it all together.

Production has gotten up and running on Ron Howard’s much-talked-about Han Solo spinoff film, a fact we know because he personally told the whole Internet last night. Unstoppable Instagram power user Howard posted the public’s first peek into his heavily-guarded Han Solo set to the photo-sharing platform, and while it doesn’t reveal all that much, we do get a glimpse of one likely fan-favorite character. He’s been more elusive in recent months, but Donald Glover has been spotted, and while our new impression of Lando Calrissian may be small and seen through a display monitor, he’s still unmistakably fly.

Ron Howard is a very capable director who knows how to position a camera and capture a powerful image. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that maybe Ron Howard isn’t great at social media or taking casual phone pics. He seems like the type of dad who accidentally snaps a selfie when attempting to take a shot of a sunset, or butt-Facetimes his family. Just look at his latest Twitter photo.

If you’ve made use of the internet in the past week, then you may very well be aware of a recent personnel change-up on the set of the gestating Han Solo spinoff film. Original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are out, Ron Howard’s in, but as with most showbiz behind-the-scenes drama, the details have been kept under wraps. That is, until The Hollywood Reporter ran an illuminating new item this morning, getting the dish on what really drove the two filmmakers away from this project. The catch-all code word of “creative differences” does not even come close to doing justice to the antipathy between the Lord-Miller brain trust and Lucasfilm.