Although Al Pacino could have been a large amount of the part Star WarsIt turned out that the producers made him an offer that he could reject.
After writing about the rejection of Han Solo's role in his memoirs 2024 Sony BoyThe Oscar winner was reflected in the reason for his right to follow up on what was found to be a huge concession on the screen.
“I said,” I think I am in a mood to make Harrison Ford a profession, “jokingly Bachino jokingly to people, complaining about a visit with Francis Ford Coppola at the production company in San Francisco in San Francisco in its favor in Zoetrpe.
“They were in the late 1960s. They were the idealists who come to the seventies with great films around the world,” he said. “So, it was a great place I already saw, I went to the building and everything before I did godfather With them.
Pachino continued, “So I loved their work, but I was showing Broadway at that time, giving me this scenario, and I thought, I do not understand. [I thought]I must be out of space myself. But I looked at this thing and sent him to Charlie Luton, my friend and teacher, in fact. I said, “What do you do this?” He was very wise and said: “I do not understand, the family. I don't know. I didn't get it.” I said, well, I am not?
After appearing for the first time, Solo's priests in 1977 Star Wars: Fourth Episode – New Hopefair The Fifth Episode – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Episode Six – Jedi Return (1983), before restarting the role after more than 30 years Star Wars: Power awakens (2015) and Skywalker ascending (2019).
