Med storfilmer som Solo: A Star Wars Story är ju vilda spekulationer och kritiska analyser av bakom kulisserna-drama oundvikliga i denna digitala era, där fans kan söndergranska beslut och ställa prognoser för en films framgångar innan den ens hinner få premiär. I fallet Han Solo har beslutet att göra en prequel på rymdsmugglarens tidigare liv betvivlats, men manusförfattaren Lawrence Kasdan menade i en intervju med Cinemablend att han hellre väntar tills publiken får avgöra om filmen fungerar eller ej:
"I understand it, but I don't take it that seriously. I've seen both sides. Every one of these movies, it was never like this back in Empire. In the last years, you see all of this prognosticating, but no one's seen anything. I always think, 'Well, if the movie works, the movie works.' Three minutes in, no one remembers any of that if the movie's working. If the movie's not working, then everyone's sitting there like 'see? I thought this would suck'"
Kasdans son Jonathan, som också skrev manus, passade på att kommentera hur Star Wars-filmen har utvecklats sedan dess Flash Gordon-inspirerade ursprung och vilken utmaning denna typ av film står inför:
"You know, it's funny. It's really a new reality from the one that these movies are born out of. I was thinking about this last night, as I was trying and failing to go to sleep. The original Star Wars is like a B summer matinee movie. There was no expectation on it to be anything but terrible, and it was great and cool, and it began a tradition. These movies are historically relegated to pulp and popcorn... So now they sit in the culture where they're the most divisive bit of moviemaking that can be. It's a really funny irony at the core of it"
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