The great Tom Hanks recently revealed that he was supposed to make an appearance in “Solo: A Star Wars Story”. Like Daniel Craig in “The Force Awakens”, he had to play a Stormtrooper in Ron Howard’s film.
Solo : the story of a failure
After the huge success of RogueOne in 2016, Disney and LucasFilm decided, in 2018, to repeat the experience with Solo: A Star Wars Story. The opportunity for the firm to tell the origins of the biggest smuggler in the galaxy. To succeed Harrison Ford as Han Solo, it is the young Alden Ehrenreich who is engaged. Surrounded by Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke or Paul Bettany, Solo: A Star Wars Story had everything to seduce the fans.
Unfortunately, the feature film encountered some problems during its production. Initially, it was the duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller who was to direct the film. Faced with different creatives with Disney, the duo slams the door, replaced at short notice by Ron Howard. Solo: A Star Wars Story met with mostly negative reviews. On the box office side, the feature film is one of the worst financial failures in the history of Star Wars with only 392 million dollars in revenue for a budget of 275 million…
Tom Hanks’ missed cameo
During a recent podcast intervention Happy Sad ConfusedTom Hanks, currently starring in Pinocchio on Disney+, made an unexpected statement. In effect, the comedian revealed he was set to appear in Solo: A Star Wars Story time for a cameo:
I had to do this, yeah. I couldn’t get it to work. I couldn’t get there in time. I think if you do a survey, all kinds of famous people have been in stormtrooper gear. Daniel Craig was one of them. Even movie executives have turned out to be Stormtroopers. I would have loved to do that.
It’s a real shame that Tom Hanks didn’t get his own cameo. Especially since star appearances in Stormtrooper costumes are starting to be a small tradition at LucasFilm and Disney. Daniel Craig camps one of them in The force awakens. Tom Hardy was also to be a Stormtrooper in The Last Jedi, before being cut during editing. In any case, if Tom Hanks had participated in Solo: A Star Wars Storythis would have marked the 5th association between the comedian and Ron Howard after Splash, Apollo 13, Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons and Infernos.
