From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

I almost felt like I was in this sort of apocalyptic movie, where it's like, no, you can't

throw us in District 9.

You know, it was weird.

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But first on the news banter, a shocking plot twist for the Young Han Solo movie.

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by a new co-banterer, Richard Rushfield, editor-in-chief of The Ancler, a new daily newsletter about Hollywood.

He's sitting in for the vacationing, very rare, but he is vacationing, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

And Richard, we have a very full newsweek to talk about.

It was supposed to be a slow, quiet week for us.

Yeah, the summer. Nobody got that memo, especially not Lucasfilm. I mean, Lucasfilm just shook Hollywood with the sudden, seemingly sudden. I don't think it was sudden to them firing of Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the two directors who were well into shooting the as yet untitled young Han Solo movie. And Phil Lord and Chris Miller are

very well-established guys in Hollywood. They did the Lego movie, 21 Jump Street. They're not

like these young directors that are picked up after a small success. They're known people with

a fan base of their own. And all I can say is things must have been absolutely horrific on that set

and distress must have run very deep for Lucasfilm to do something so absolutely extraordinary

as to fire directors in the middle of, well, beyond the middle of production.

It is amazing. I mean, firings like this on movies this size just don't happen.

They had problems on the last one on Rogue One with Gareth Edwards, but that was sort of

quietly handled without a publicly announced.

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