Hollywood lurched to the announcement this week that hot-property directing duo Chris Miller and Phil Lord – responsible for huge crowd favourite films like 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie – had parted ways with Lucasfilm and the stand-alone Han Solo film, with only weeks left in principal photography. Typically, the press release cited the less-than-sexy “Creative differences” as the reason for the surprise split. Less than 48 hours later, Lucasfilm announced that Ron Howard, the man behind Rush, The DaVinci Code and In The Heart Of The Sea, would assume the role as solo director on the project; the speed at which this all transpired not only raises questions in and of itself, but fails to answer some burning questions leftover from the removal of Lord/Miller.
