Ron Howard

Michael K. Williams Couldn’t Make the Reshoots, So He’s Been Cut From the Han Solo Movie

The Han Solo reshoots/director change have claimed their first victim: Michael K. Williams. Deadline spoke to the actor who said that, because he is making another movie when he would be needed for reshoots, the production is being forced to cut him out of the movie: When Ron Howard got hired to finish out the…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 22

Should We Be Worried About Ron Howard Directing the Han Solo Movie?

Guten tag, my… uh… gang, I guess? Please enjoy a bit of “Postal Apocalypse” calm before the storm of San Diego Comic-Con! This week: Disney’s Star Wars problem, whether Secret Empire will come to the MCU, and how to show someone you love something that’s become problematic over time. Also, I, uh, write a Transformers…

Movies Rob Bricken Jul 13

Whose Han Solo Movie Wardrobe Appears in Ron Howard’s Sneaky Photos?

Director Ron Howard wants to know if we can match the Han Solo character to this closet full of costumes. Here’s the evidence: I mean, probably Lando, right? But maybe Elan Sleazebaggano is making a re-appearance. Or, judging by those set photos, it could even be Han. But wait! Here’s another angle. Tell us what…

Movies Germain Lussier Jul 11

Ron Howard’s Feet and Unquenchable Thirst Revealed in Shocking Han Solo Set Photo

Replacement director Ron Howard took the helm of the Han Solo movie Thursday and at least he’s still got a sense of humor. Howard tweeted the most revealing thing he could about being on the set of the highly-secretive project. A shot so fascinting, so jam-packed with consiquences, the Internet is likely exploding this very…

Movies Germain Lussier Jun 29

Ron Howard Is Classy and Optimistic In His First Public Han Solo Comments

It’s been a tumultuous few days in a galaxy far, far, away, but the man who has emerged to steer the Han Solo movie is already handling it like a champ. In his first public statements since officially being announced as director, Ron Howard took to Twitter to be gracious and professional. Of course, Howard…

Movies Germain Lussier Jun 22

Ron Howard Will Direct the Han Solo Movie

Just days after the shocking news of Chris Miller and Phil Lord’s departure from the Han Solo spinoff movie, it seems like a decision has been made on who’s coming in to replace them. And it’s pretty much the one director everyone thought it was going to be. Reported first by The Hollywood Reporter, Disney…

Movies James Whitbrook Jun 22

Ron Howard Is the Reported Frontrunner to Take Over the Han Solo Film (UPDATED)

The world of Star Wars was shook to the core Tuesday afternoon when Lucasfilm announced that Phil Lord and Chris Miller would no longer be directing the Han Solo standalone film. However, there’s already a very famous frontrunner: Ron Howard. (Updated below with more details about the reason for Lord and Miller’s departure.) Deadline reports…

Movies Germain Lussier Jun 20

National Geographic Just Cast the Perfect Actor As Albert Einstein

Few scientists are as iconic, important or recognizable as Albert Einstein. So it makes perfect sense that he’ll be the focus of Genius, the first scripted series on the National Geographic Channel. Now, the team behind it, including producer Ron Howard, have found the perfect actor to play the role: Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush. You don’t…

Television Germain Lussier Aug 15

The Live-Action Tiger and Bunny Film Just Got a Screenwriter

The popular Japanese anime TV series turned film franchise Tiger and Bunny is coming to America. Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment and others have hired screenwriter Ellen Shanman to adapt the work into live-action form. Created in 2011*, Tiger and Bunny is kind of like a Lethal Weapon with superheroes, set in a world where superheroes…

Movies Germain Lussier Aug 11

Disney Is Remaking Splash With Channing Tatum, But Not How You’d Expect

Ron Howard’s hit 1984 comedy Splash is being remade, because of course it is. However, unlike the Tom Hanks/Darryl Hannah original, there’s a twist—in this upcoming version, the mermaid is the man and the human is the woman. Deadline broke the news of the remake, which will be produced by Howard and his partner Brian…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 1

Humanity Finally Travels to Mars in Ron Howard’s New Half-Scifi, Half-Documentary TV Series

This November, the National Geographic Channel will take audiences into outer space in a way we haven’t seen before. From producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer comes Mars, a six-part TV miniseries that blends documentary and science fiction to dramatize humankind’s first trip to Mars in 2033—and io9 is proud to exclusively debut the first…

Trailers Germain Lussier Jul 29

The Team Behind Apollo 13 Is Bringing Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves to the Big Screen

Excellent news for fans of Neal Stephenson’s excellent sci-fi novel: It’s being turned into a movie, courtesy of the creative team that brought Apollo 13 to life . https://gizmodo.com/two-books-you-must-read-if-you-care-about-the-future-of-1723515343 Seveneves, which follows a billions-strong generation of spacebound humans attempting to recolonize the cataclysmically ravaged Earth that their ancestors left behind, will be overseen by the…

Movies James Whitbrook Jun 9

Hollywood’s Richest Directors Think $50 for a Movie Is Totally Reasonable

Rejoice, world, the plan to use the internet to ensure you never leave the house continues apace. Because a bunch of big Hollywood names are reportedly backing Sean Parker’s “Screening Room,” a project to let you buy movies at home the day they are released in theaters. According to Variety, Parker’s new nightmare venture is…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Mar 15

Will The Umpteeth Attempt To Film King’s Dark Tower Finally Succeed?

Hollywood has been promising-threatening to adapt Stephen King’s epic novel series The Dark Tower for years. In 2011, it was gonna happen at HBO. In 2013, it was all about Ron Howard’s version. Now comes news that a “totally reconceived” take will become a film franchise, with tie-in TV series. Lower your raised eyebrows; this…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Apr 10

The Next Da Vinci Code Movie Is On Its Way

The next Da Vinci Code sequel will start filming in April, 2015, Deadline reports. We have Tom Hanks returning to star as Robert Langdon and Ron Howard back to direct. Weirdly, the studio’s decided to skip one of Dan Brown’s novels and adapt Inferno instead of The Lost Symbol. Is this a Freemason conspiracy?! (Spoiler…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Aug 27

Concept Art Gives Us Our First Look At Ron Howard’s Troubled Dark Tower

Last we heard, Ron Howard was still hoping to make his ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. But even if the project never gets off the ground, we now have some idea of how Howard’s sets might have looked. Gregory Hill, who worked with on The Dark Tower before Universal suspended production on…

Movies Lauren Davis Jun 26

Ron Howard confirms The Dark Tower is still in the works

Hey, there’s some actual news about Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman’s massive, ambitious The Dark Tower movie-and-TV-series mega-project, and the news is good: They’re still working on it… they’re just being really quiet about it. Howard told Empire: The Dark Tower is something that we’re still working on. We’ve all taken a vow of silence…

Movies Rob Bricken Sep 17

Warwick Davis answers the Willow question that’s been bothering us for 25 years

If you’re a die-hard Willow fan (like myself) you know there’s a huge continuity error in Ron Howard’s fantasy epic — in the form of a missing magical acorn. Willow is given a total of three magical acorns before he starts on his “fellowship of the baby” quest. But he never uses the third, and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Apr 4

Ron Howard in talks to direct Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard any news about Disney’s movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. We feared this picture had died after Henry Selick of Coraline passed up an opportunity to turn this YA novel into a stop motion feature — the studio and the director parted ways back in…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 22

The wild fantasy artist who won Ron Howard’s photo contest

This photo by Los Angeles artist Claire Oring looks like a still from a post-apocalyptic sword-and-sandal movie – and now that it’s won Ron Howard’s photo contest, it’s set to be the basis of a short movie directed by Jamie Foxx or Eva Longoria. This photo was one of 91 selected photos in Canon’s “Project…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 2

Michael K. Williams Couldn’t Make the Reshoots, So He’s Been Cut From the Han Solo Movie

Should We Be Worried About Ron Howard Directing the Han Solo Movie?

Whose Han Solo Movie Wardrobe Appears in Ron Howard’s Sneaky Photos?

Ron Howard’s Feet and Unquenchable Thirst Revealed in Shocking Han Solo Set Photo

Ron Howard Is Classy and Optimistic In His First Public Han Solo Comments

Ron Howard Will Direct the Han Solo Movie

Ron Howard Is the Reported Frontrunner to Take Over the Han Solo Film (UPDATED)

National Geographic Just Cast the Perfect Actor As Albert Einstein

The Live-Action Tiger and Bunny Film Just Got a Screenwriter

Disney Is Remaking Splash With Channing Tatum, But Not How You’d Expect

Humanity Finally Travels to Mars in Ron Howard’s New Half-Scifi, Half-Documentary TV Series

The Team Behind Apollo 13 Is Bringing Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves to the Big Screen

Hollywood’s Richest Directors Think $50 for a Movie Is Totally Reasonable

Will The Umpteeth Attempt To Film King’s Dark Tower Finally Succeed?

The Next Da Vinci Code Movie Is On Its Way

Concept Art Gives Us Our First Look At Ron Howard’s Troubled Dark Tower

Ron Howard confirms The Dark Tower is still in the works

Warwick Davis answers the Willow question that’s been bothering us for 25 years

Ron Howard in talks to direct Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book

The wild fantasy artist who won Ron Howard’s photo contest

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