{"id":40934,"date":"2017-07-26T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T23:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=40934"},"modified":"2018-12-05T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:00:56","slug":"warwick-davis-joins-han-solo-star-wars-spinoff-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/26\/warwick-davis-joins-han-solo-star-wars-spinoff-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwick Davis Joins Han Solo STAR WARS Spinoff Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/warwick-davis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/warwick-davis-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"Warwick Davis\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40935\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just not a <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> film without Warwick Davis it seems. And now Lucasfilm&#8217;s untitled Han Solo spin off film now feels like a <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> film as director Ron Howard revealed that Davis has joined the cast of the film.<\/p>\n<p>As is becoming a habit for him, Howard made the revelation via his twitter account this afternoon in response to a fan asking if the director had ever thought about making a sequel to the fantasy Willow, on which Howard and Davis first collaborated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glad you are asking for one!  I directed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarwickADavis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WarwickADavis<\/a> for the 1st time in 30 years today. It made me happy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yW8E19MPCn\">https:\/\/t.co\/yW8E19MPCn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealRonHoward\/status\/890309525311561729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Davis got his start as an actor in the third installment of the original <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> trilogy <strong>Return Of The Jedi<\/strong>. Since then, he has appeared in the first installment of the prequel trilogy, <strong>The Phantom Menace<\/strong> as well as the recent <strong>The Force Awakens<\/strong> and <strong>Rogue One<\/strong>. He has also filmed a part for this winter&#8217;s <strong>The Last Jedi<\/strong>. Outside of the Star Wars franchise, Davis has appeared in the <strong>Leprechaun<\/strong> horror franchise, the <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong> franchise and the 2005 adaptation <strong>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide To The Galaxy<\/strong> among other films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actor reteams with his WILLOW director Ron Howard for the STAR WARS spinoff.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/26\/warwick-davis-joins-han-solo-star-wars-spinoff-cast\/\" title=\"Warwick Davis Joins Han Solo STAR WARS Spinoff Cast\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7807,350,9225],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-han-solo","8":"tag-ron-howard","9":"tag-warwick-davis"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40934"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=40934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}