Over at StarWars.com Dan Brooks sits down for 90 minutes with Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan to discuss the galaxy and Solo: A Star Wars Story in particular.
Lawrence Kasdan: He’s not living in a romantic fantasy of chivalry. And this is one of the reasons he’s such a popular character. The reason he caught my imagination from A New Hope is because he represented a kind of very practical, cynical, “I’m gonna survive this scene” attitude. And not some, “Oh, I can’t possibly draw on him until he draws.” That’s from High Noon or something.
Jonathan Kasdan: That’s the thing. What George created so brilliantly is that with that one moment, he did so much storytelling about who this guy was, why we’re gonna like him, how he’s going to be different from Luke. It was so economical and ingenious. You know?
Lawrence Kasdan: Brilliant. Brilliant. Every moment of A New Hope is brilliant in that way, because it was the most economical and effective movie ever made, practically. So we’ve already seen for the first time Luke and Han across the table; one guy sort of grizzled and cynical, and the other one is outraged by his — Han’s — cockiness, and he’s the idealist. Then they leave, they disappear, and just as Han’s about to walk off stage someone arrives. It shows us, acts out, dramatizes perfectly the difference between these two guys.
