Kathleen Kennedy says she regrets Solo and casting Alden Ehrenreich

Gamesradar reports former Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said Solo: A Star Wars Story is the only film released during her 14-year tenure that she has "a bit of regret" about. Kennedy told Deadline, "I don’t really have any regrets. Well, maybe a bit of regret about Solo: A Star Wars Story."

She said she "brought Larry Kasdan in on, and we were so excited about that idea. And then when you’re into something and you realize fundamentally, conceptually, you cannot replace Han Solo, at least right now." Kennedy added, "As wonderful as Alden Ehrenreich was, and he really was good, and is a wonderful actor, we put him in an impossible situation." The article says this remark possibly refers to the generally negative reaction from fans about Ehrenreich's portrayal.

Kennedy said that once the production was committed they had to continue, and qualified her comment as a regret about the concept and timing rather than the filmmaking itself: "I think I have a bit of regret about that, but not about the moviemaking and filmmaking. I don’t have regrets about that. I just think that conceptually, we did it too soon."

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Culture, Kathleen Kennedy, Alden Ehrenreich, Han Solo, Larry Kasdan, Lucasfilm