Solo writer confirms Thandie Newton was too good for Solo

This summer Solo: A story of Star Wars It was a scathing little picture, frivolous and frivolous, that probably did not deserve all the weight that had been thrown on his head – since the highly publicized departure of his original directors, until everyone unique the story of his mischievous anti-hero, the blame he took for apparently having killed a large number of Star wars plans for derivative films. One of the things Is deserves to be exasperated, however, that's the way he's wasting a superb performance by Thandie Newton, as his character, Val-Lover and partner Woody Harrelson's protagonist Becky, dies almost immediately after being introduced.

This point has never been so clear as today, when Jonathan Kasdan, who wrote the film with his father, Lawrence Kasdan, mastermind of Lucasfilm's story, issued a ticket containing essentially a textual commentary on the film. 25. The young Kasdan has been involved in the production of the film since the first day, so he has a lot of reflections on every stage of his development, including cool ideas for cut scenes – like a high-stakes canal race at through an earlier iteration. from Paul Bettany's headquarters – and small touches like all the Lovecraft references that made their debut in the big Kessel Run. But the screenwriter has also taken a lot of pictures online for the list, and the treatment of the film by Newton is a big part of it.

Specifically, people got angry at Kasdan's No. 17 entry: "In retrospect, Thandie Newton may have been too good and interesting like Val … Thandie is so convincing that she is dead. The character feels a bit like a cheater. Although "actor too good" is usually a very good problem for a film, Kasdan describes it as an unfortunate side effect of Newton's excellence, not the decision of his scenario to create. a female character with the sole intention of throwing her for a cheap emotional effect. While the structure of the film is based to some extent on the fact that Beckett is forced to rely on untested Han after his real team was killed, but the choice always highlights the frequency of this kind of films . (People are also upset at the number 4 list entry, where Kasdan claims that Han's thermal detonator bluff in the previous scenes of the film is now retroactively the explicit inspiration for Leia Return of the Jedias if she could not imagine herself the bold and risky plan.)

To be clear, it is always very cool to see someone so intimately familiar with a big-budget movie breaking their reactions (even if there are more conversations about Bossk than one would expect). But Kasdan's list also highlights some of the reasons Solo could finally have fallen a bit flat, and relatively few of them have anything to do with the lack of perfidious lizard bounty hunters beyond the stars.