Disney went big in first unveilingSolo: A Star Wars Storyto the public by buying a teaser spot during the Super Bowl, followed by the official teaser trailer reveal the next day. Loads of anticipation surrounded thisStar Warsspinoff, not only because it’s the origin story of arguably the franchise’s most beloved character, but because the film itself went through somevery public production issues. By most accounts directorRon Howardis smoothly bringing this thing home, but the first teaser trailer left something to be desired. Visually the film looks pretty great—it looks like aStar Warsmovie, for better or worse—but something about the pace of that teaser seemed a bit off.
Given Han Solo’s roguish nature andJ.J. Abrams’ foundational establishment of the new post-George LucasStar Warsera, perhaps it was inevitable that theSolotrailer would be recut using theBeastie Boys’ “Sabotage”, but regardless, that time has arrived.Chris Galegar, co-host and producer of the bi-weekly cinema podcastWar Starts at Midnight, took it upon himself to recut theSolotrailer to “Sabotage,” and the result is a highly amusing and somewhat improved version of that initial teaser.
The song was memorably used in Abrams’Star Trekreboot and again inJustin Lin’s sequelStar Trek Beyond, and something aboutAlden Ehrenreich’s Han Solo—at least in this trailer—feels very reminiscent ofChris Pine’s take on Captain James T. Kirk. So this works kind of better than you think it might, and it offers a bit of a harder edged tone to the overall proceedings. I don’t expect we’ll be hearing contemporary music inStar Warsmovies anytime soon, so this may be the closest we ever get. In that case, rock on.
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