Solo and Rogue One have both struck gold after hiring an old hand to resolve early chaos.
Coincidence?There are few clearer indications that a big-budget Hollywood movie is in trouble than a change of director.
It is not always the signal for a production to descend into chaos and ignominy – for every Exorcist: The Beginning there is a Dredd or The Outlaw Josey Wales keen to prove its reconfigured mettle – but it envelops its subject in a veil of curdled uncertainty.
If the studio involved does not have the competence to get its house in order first time around, why should we risk losing two hours of our lives to find out if executives eventually managed to get the film back on track?Solo: A Star Wars Story did not only lose its directors last year – The Lego Movie’s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were replaced by grizzled
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