Though Al Pacino might have made a hefty sum for an element in Star Wars, it seems the producers made him a suggestion he might refuse.
After writing about turning down the position of Han Solo in his 2024 memoir Sonny Boy, the Oscar winner mirrored on why he was reluctant to pursue what turned out to be an enormous onscreen franchise.
“I mentioned, ‘I believe I’m within the temper to make Harrison Ford a profession,’” Pacino joked to Individuals, recalling a go to with Francis Ford Coppola at his and George Lucas‘ San Francisco-based manufacturing firm headquarters for American Zoetrope.
“They have been within the late-’60s making this. They have been actual idealists coming into the ’70s with nice movies everywhere in the globe,” he defined. “So, it was an exquisite place that I truly noticed, I went to the constructing and the whole lot earlier than I did Godfather with them.”
Pacino continued, “So I beloved their work, however I used to be doing a present on Broadway on the time, and so they handed me this script, and I believed, I don’t perceive. [I thought], I have to be out of area myself. However I checked out this factor and I despatched it to Charlie Loughton, my pal and mentor, truly. I mentioned, ‘What do you make of this?’ He was fairly smart and he mentioned, ‘I don’t get it, Al. I dunno. I don’t get it.’ I mentioned, ‘Nicely, I don’t both; what are we going to do? They supplied me a fortune, however I don’t know. No, I can’t play one thing if I don’t communicate the language.’”
After debuting as Han Solo in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, he returned for Episode V – The Empire Strikes Again (1980) and Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), earlier than reprising the position greater than 30 years later in Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens (2015) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
