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                                                                                                    WILLOW (1988)
                                                                                                    The Untitled Han Solo
                                                                                                    movie isn’t the fi rst time
                                                                                                    that Ron Howard has
                                                                                                    worked on a George
                                                                                                    Lucas-related sci-fi
                                                                                                    and fantasy project. He
                                                                                                    directed 1988’s Willow,
                                                                                                    which was written by
                                                                                                    Lucas and Bob Dolman.
                                                                                                    It starred Return of the
                                                                                                    Jedi ’s Warwick Davis in
                                                                                                    the role of heroic dwarf
                                                                                                    Willow Ufgood, alongside
                                                                                                    the likes of Val Kilmer
                                                                                                    and Joanne Whalley.
                                                                                                    Lucas conceived of the
                                                                                                    fantasy epic about the
                                                                                                    aspiring sorceror trying to
                                                                                                    protect a baby from the
                                                                                                    forces of evil in 1972, and
                                                                                                    approached Howard to
                                                                                                    direct it in 1985, while he
                                                                                                    was working on Cocoon.
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