Han Solo movie directors 'accidentally' reveal secret creature on set
No entertainment company on Earth loves to play the cat-and-mouse game of spoilers with its fans like Lucasfilm does—especially when it's for charity.
Star Wars Celebration came and went last week with nary a word announced about the untitled Han Solo movie currently being filmed. On Twitter Monday, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The Lego Movie) apologized for their absence with a pretty decent excuse.
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On Tuesday, they made up for it—kinda— with a Force For Change video from the Pinewood set that plays with the whole concept of spoilers. (Force For Change is Lucasfilm's charity arm, which is currently conducting a contest that'll let lucky winners visit the Han Solo set and appear as extras in the movie.)
The video casually reveals the first new creature from the Han Solo film—a six-eyed CGI creation similar to the character Ree-Yees from Return of the Jedi.
The movie's other Return of the Jedi connection? Warwick Davis, who hosts this charity video, best known for playing Wicket the Ewok. Lord and Miller also reveal that Davis himself will have a part in their film.
As spoilers go, it's not much—but at least it proves that Lucasfilm will be drip-feeding hungry Han Solo fans between now and the movie's release on May 25, 2018.
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Chris is a veteran tech, entertainment and culture journalist, author of 'How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,' and co-host of the Doctor Who podcast 'Pull to Open.' Hailing from the U.K., Chris got his start as a sub editor on national newspapers. He moved to the U.S. in 1996, and became senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, and West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a long-time volunteer at 826 Valencia, the nationwide after-school program co-founded by author Dave Eggers. His book on the history of Star Wars is an international bestseller and has been translated into 11 languages.
