Michael K. Williams Has Been Cut From Han Solo Movie
The Han Solo spin-off movie has been in a state of flux since original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller departed the project citing creative differences. Ron Howard is now behind the camera and reshoots are underway – inevitable there will be changes. One such change will be that Michael K. Williams will no longer appear in the movie after his character was cut.
According to Deadline, the reason for Williams departure is that old showbiz chestnut, scheduling conflicts:
“When Ron Howard got hired to finish out the film, there were some reshoot issues that needed to be done in regards to my character, in order for it to match the new direction which the producers wanted Ron to carry the film in. And that would have required me on a plane a month ago to London, to Pinewood, to do reshoots. But I’m here, on location in Africa. It’s scheduling. I’m not going to be back on the market until the end of November after Hap and Leonard, and for them to wait that long for me, that would have pushed back the release date, which I believe is in May 2018. They wanted me now; I couldn’t go. So they had to clip-clip-clip.”
Williams also added that his character would be ‘half-human, half-animal’ and that he may in fact return to the Star Wars franchise at a later date:
“I don’t think that me not being in the Star Wars family is final. I left with a very good taste in my mouth about the whole family, and I hope that I left a good taste in their mouth. They’re a great group of people, the Lucas family.”
The Young Han Solo movie (or whatever it ends up being called) is due to arrive in cinemas on May 25th, 2018.
