Think we would see the Kessel Run?

The Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs is a widely known accomplishment of the Millennium Falcon (with Solo at the helm?), the producers would be derelict if they didn't feature it in the film (unless they state specifically that it was somebody else's doing).

HAN Fast ship? You've never heard of the
Millennium Falcon?

BEN Should I have?

HAN It's the ship that made the Kessel
run in less than twelve parsecs!

Perhaps it's noteworthy that Solo doesn't brag it was him, making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but just the ship (maybe with Solo at the helm it took 12.1 parsecs...)

 

Before plot details came out it would have been a "whatever" issue if they showed the run - but since they're clearly going to be on Kessel at some point in the film I think it would be a big "miss" if they didn't show some aspect of the journey.

 

This. This is exactly how they should do it. Definitely under 14, but leave it to interpretation if it was under 12. That would make Han complaining that much funnier. And yeah, I'm 100% sure we will see it. This is an aspect where they should totally act on nostalgia.

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Some aspect? They have to show it! Ron Howard will ace this!

 

I don't know if anyone remembers this, but its so well put together!

 

I do think so, would make sense if they did.

 

No. I hope not.

Its unnecessary. We don't need literally every interesting backstory translated onto the screen. If it were done, it shows that directors and writers have very little creative talent. Imagination portrays The Kessel Run better than an actual filmed scene could ever achieve. A bit like the stealing of the Death Star plans in Rogue One was also an unnecessary money making film that has ruined an interesting and once-imagined back story.

Those with little imagination are going to disagree....

 

Of course it will be in the film.

Funny how some people are moaning about it when in all reality we don't actually know what it is!

 

No we shouldn't see it. I like that we never got any specifics on it and hope we never will. To put it in the film just seems so fan service-y. Then again, so is this entire movie. So why the hell not? Put it in there.

 

I do not want to see a "Going Into Tosche Station For Some Power Convertors" film, or a "C-3PO: My Life As A Binary Load Lifter Operator" film either.

Just because they were lines in a film, it doesn't have be be made into a scene, or an entire boring film about stealing Death Star plans, like Rogue One was.

Imagination is better used at telling those kind of stories. Star Wars should stop be so literal.

 

I hope we see it and I hope they retcon it so it actually makes sense in terms of Parsec being a measurement of distance and not time.

There was so much about this in the expanded universe but the new canon is fairly light on the issue. I'm pretty sure it's only mentioned in the two movies. So there's never been a correction of the obvious error.

 

That only proves a lot of people bought tickets to see it, regardless of how good or bad it was. If you measure a film purely from its ticket revenue, then you're an accountant working for Disney.

Similalry, a bad music single such as Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" (Titanic) can reach and stay at #1 for many weeks. That doesn't make it a good single, it just means many have been sold because thats the behaviour of peer group pressure and "sheeple" following a trend, be it either good or bad.

 

I kinda get what @SKB is going for, though (edit: in reference to the Solo film, not their theories on Rogue One)

They have to be careful with stuff like this. While I think in a way that they almost have to in some way touch on the Kessel run (I mean, especially if they do end up going to Kessel) I hope that it's done pretty tactfully.

For instance, if Han looks straight at the camera, says "Hey, let's do the Kessel run!", and then the Podracer flags come out and Vin Diesel pulls up in as Dash Rendar in the Outrider to race him... that'd obviously be a terrible scene. Though, I'm just now realizing how part of me actually wants something like that to happen.

But if we get something like an incredible chase scene with the Falcon outrunning TIEs (and maybe a bounty hunter or two), then afterward having somebody (let's say Lando) say something like "Nicely done, in only 13 parsecs too!", while Han could respond, without even taking his eyes off of the space ahead of him "12". I'd be down for something a little more subtle, like that. I don't think the phrase "Kessel Run" even needs to be said- if you don't get the reference in the film by seeing it depicted, having it explicitly stated probably wouldn't pay off for many more people anyway.

 

I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, or that it couldn't be done well... but the truth is that we need to see the Kessel Run about as much as we need to see the Toshi station and its power converters.

They're cool off hand comments we as fans have come to refer to and connect as key character moments, but the value of these movies is adding NEW character moments, to help flesh out the characters we love, not just rehashing the old stuff we know.

 

I'm glad we agree...that the next spin-off should be "Wormie at Toshi Station: A Star Wars Story"!

 

I think the Kessel Run should be mandatory.