{"id":7046,"date":"2019-05-06T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=7046"},"modified":"2019-05-06T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:02:21","slug":"rocketman-star-taron-egerton-reveals-why-he-passed-on-solo-a-star-wars-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/why-taron-egerton-passed-on-solo-star-wars-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rocketman’ Star Taron Egerton Reveals Why He Passed on ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocketman<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>star Taron Egerton is poised to have a summer hit on his hands with Paramount’s much-anticipated Elton John musical biopic. But the actor could have appeared in another high-profile summer movie a year earlier, with last summer’s Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Egerton was one of several actors in the running to play smuggler Han Solo in the much-maligned Star Wars prequel, along with Alden Ehrenreich, who eventually got the role. In a recent cover story interview with\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> for\u00a0Rocketman<\/em>, the\u00a0Kingsman<\/em> star revealed why Ehrenreich landed the role over him. It turns out, Egerton made it easy for his competition.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t go to the last audition,” Egerton said. “Because it didn’t feel right to me. To be honest, I think it was always going to be Alden’s part.”<\/p>\n

Egerton may have dodged a bullet there.\u00a0Solo<\/em> infamously, and publicly, suffered from behind-the-scenes troubles that resulted in Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy replacing original directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord with Ron Howard after the duo had completed a significant amount of filming on the project. Howard would oversee extensive reshoots on the May 2018 release, which was met with a critical and box office shrug.\u00a0Solo<\/em>‘s less-than-stellar success lead to a moratorium on future movies under the “A\u00a0Star Wars Story” label.<\/p>\n

Solo<\/em> wasn’t the only problematic project that Egerton opened up to THR about. When asked about his titular role in 2018’s huge box office disappointment,\u00a0Robin Hood<\/em>, the actor expressed no regrets. “I thought the pitch was genuinely interesting, and I thought it sounded like a legitimate, gritty reimagining of something that’s always been dealt with in a flowery, glossy way.”<\/p>\n

Huh. That’s one way to describe that movie.<\/p>\n

Egerton is a scary-talented actor and early buzz on\u00a0Rocketman<\/em> says the movie could do for his career what\u00a0Bohemian Rhapsody\u00a0<\/em>did for Rami Malek’s.<\/p>\n

We’ll find out soon when\u00a0Rocketman<\/em> hits theaters May 31. You can grab tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rocketman\u00a0star Taron Egerton is poised to have a summer hit on his hands with Paramount’s much-anticipated Elton John musical biopic. But the actor could have appeared in another high-profile summer movie a year earlier, with last summer’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. Egerton was one of several actors in the running to play smuggler Han […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7062,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions\/7062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}