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Disney Apparently Expects ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ To Bomb
迪士尼預期《星際大戰外傳 : 韓索羅》爆炸
For some time now, there’s been a nagging sense that all might not be well behind the scenes of Disney’s Star Wars Universe. The Force Awakens and Rogue One seemingly washed away the stale memories of George Lucas’s prequel trilogy, but a string of high profile departures from the forthcoming sequels and some very divisive reactions to The Last Jedi have somewhat undermined that. Now, it looks like things could get even worse, as a source close to the production of Solo: A Star Wars Story has revealed
the company is bracing itself for that film to fail significantly.
下兩部星戰電影的人員異動消息加上星戰8引起的兩極反應本來已經有點動搖前兩部迪士尼星戰電影打下的基礎。雪上加霜的是，據說迪士尼自己預期《星際大戰外傳 : 韓索羅》將會慘淡收場。
A source close to the film’s production has informed us:
Disney is bracing themselves for the Han Solo movie to bomb. They were worried about it before all The Last Jedi controversy, but now they’re essentially writing Solo off. The lead actor, Alden Ehrenreich, can’t act, and they had a dialogue coach on hand for all of his scenes. On top of that, the script is unworkable. It’s going to be a car crash.
一名與製作組關係密切的人士透露，迪士尼已做好韓索羅外傳電影大爆炸的心理準備。這種擔心其實早在星戰8上映之前就有，只不過現在他們基本上放棄掙扎了。主角Alden Ehrenreich不會演戲，他的所有戲份都需要在一個對話教練陪同下完成。更糟的是，劇本也不行。
Part of this information was already somewhat backed up by a story that circulated online back in June about the production team having reportedly brought in an acting coach in for lead actor Alden Eichenreich. The Hollywood Reporter stated that Lucasfilm executives had insisted on the measure when footage was shown to them of Eichenreich playing the iconic smuggler, and it fell far short of the standard they had been expecting.
其實類似的流言早在六月已有。The Hollywood Reporter報導過，Lucasfilm高層看過Ehrenreich演出這名傳奇走私客的片段後認為水準遠不及預期，並堅持為他找一名演技指導。
The movie has already had some very visible issues, having lost directors and actors during its journey to the big screen. And it’s not alone, with director Colin Treverrow having also been removed from production of Episode IX. The vague reasoning provided by Lucasfilm for his removal, along with that of Phil Miller and Chris Lord from Solo is that the vision of all three directors was incompatible with that of the parent company. Which seems slightly unusual given the two very different
interpretations of the Star Wars canon that both Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson were recently allowed to deliver.
這部電影本身已經有不少可見的問題，例如在拍攝期間換過導演和演員。同樣地，星戰9製作組移除了原導演Colin Treverrow。關於換導演的原因，官方只給出很模糊的理由：三位導演的理念與迪士尼不合。這理由聽起來有點奇怪，畢竟R1和星戰8的導演就用了截然不同的方式去詮譯星戰正史。
This would seem to be only one part of the problem though. As well as needing to work with a large amount of conceptual material and footage that had already been completed by Miller and Lord, new director Ron Howard is also having to contend with some other very fundamental issues.
中途換人還只是其中一個問題。新導演Ron Howard除了要處理前兩位導演留下的大量概念性材料和拍好的片段，還要面對一些基本問題。
It was expected that Ron Howard would need to tweak some of the existing material, but the extent to which he has needed to re-shoot the footage meant that Michael K Williams had to be dropped from the movie, with Bettany bought on board to replace him.
新導演不但要調整已有的材料，還需要重拍一些片段，這意味著Michael K Williams需要從電影中被移除(因有其他片約，已離開片場)，並由Bettany頂上。
This is a fairly unorthodox move, and last week Bettany disclosed in an interview that Howard had actually been forced to do a lot more filming that he had initially wanted to. This would seem to bear out that the material he had been left to work with was proving more difficult to adapt than he had first thought.
這是個很不尋常的舉動，上週Bettany在訪問中透露過，Howard被迫拍攝比原本預期多很多的片段。這間接說明前人留下的材料比他想像中還難整合起來。
Given the essential qualities that Harrison Ford bought to the success of the role, the choice of a Han Solo origins story had always carried with it more risk than the studio was perhaps comfortable with. Couple that with the existence of this mysterious stumbling block that half of the directors Lucasfilm hire seem to reach, and the massive overreaction by some hardcore fans to The Last Jedi, then it’s entirely conceivable that the damage has unfortunately already been done to the project before it
even reaches cinemas.
從Harrison Ford的個人特質為這角色帶來的成功來看，拍攝少年韓索羅電影的主意本來就伴隨著很大的風險。加上Lucasfilm請來的半數導演都無法克服的某些神秘障礙，還有這次星戰8引起某些星戰迷的巨大反應，完全可以想像電影還未上映，傷害已經造成。
A trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story is expected within the next week, and the movie is due for release on May 25th, 2018.第一條預告片估計下週就看得到。電影預期明年5/25上映。