{"id":375339,"date":"2026-01-17T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:35:08","slug":"lucasfilm-boss-kathleen-kennedy-admits-she-has-a-bit-of-regret-over-star-wars-han-solo-spin-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375339\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy admits she has “a bit of regret” over Star Wars’ Han Solo spin-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucasfilm\u2019s outgoing boss Kathleen Kennedy has admitted that she somewhat regrets the studio making the\u00a0Star Wars<\/a>\u00a0spin-off\u00a0Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The spin-off is part of the Star Wars Anthology film series and follows a young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) meeting future copilot Chewbacca, with whom he joins a heist within the criminal underworld, where he encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian. Donald Glover<\/a>, Emilia Clarke and Woody Harrelson were also a part of the film, which was set ten years before the events of the first entry in the Star Wars series.<\/p>\n

Solo: A Star Wars Story\u00a0arrived just two-and-a-half years after The Force Awakens,\u00a0in which Han Solo was killed.<\/p>\n

Kennedy was interviewed by Deadline <\/a>as she prepared to hand over the reins of the company and was asked if she had any regrets creatively speaking about her time at Lucasfilm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t really have any regrets. Well, maybe a bit of regret about Solo: A Star Wars Story. I brought Larry Kasdan in on, and we were so excited about that idea,\u201d she admitted. \u201cAnd then when you\u2019re into something and you realize fundamentally, conceptually, you cannot replace Han Solo, at least right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the outlet acknowledged that filling Harrison Ford\u2019s shows would be difficult, she said: \u201cAs wonderful as Alden Ehrenreich was, and he really was good, and is a wonderful actor, we put him in an impossible situation. And once you\u2019re in it and once you\u2019re committed, you\u2019ve got to carry on. I think I have a bit of regret about that, but not about the moviemaking and filmmaking. I don\u2019t have regrets about that. I just think that conceptually, we did it too soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Solo: A Star Wars Story\u00a0performed worse than anticipated at the box office, making a loss of just under $77 million <\/a>and classifying as a box office bomb.<\/p>\n

In other\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0news, the creator of the forthcoming game Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic<\/a>\u00a0has denied rumours that it won\u2019t be released until 2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm\u2019s outgoing boss Kathleen Kennedy has admitted that she somewhat regrets the studio making the\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0spin-off\u00a0Solo: A Star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-375339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}