Do you remember the 1988 film, ‘Willow’? My childhood wouldn’t have been complete without it! It’s been 30 years since the original came out and according to Ron Howard, the movie could be coming back.


Howard says the first Willow movie actually inspired “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and if he were to bring it back, it wouldn’t be a sequel so much as it would be a spin-off:
“I don’t want to give away too much, but there is a little talk of Willow. We wouldn’t call it Willow 2, I think it would focus a lot on Elora Danan, although Willow would have to be significantly involved.”

 

So how did Willow inspire a Star Wars movie? Howard explains that Val Kilmer’s Madmartigan has similar characteristics to one of the characters in “Solo: A Star Wars Story”, but he would not elaborate on which character. 

“I thought about that movie a lot as I was working on Solo because there are certain scenes, especially around some of the Madmartigan stuff, was reminiscent of a character with that kind of swagger and bravado. And also some of the humor around some of the action in Willow was something I inspired to get into Solo.”

 

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