What do I mean by ballsy, well you know how in prior films they reference how Chewy (Joonas Suotamo) could rip arms off and was a titan of a badass... We get full Wookie rage, also the way in which Han (Alden Ehrenreich) and Chewbacca meet is dark as all hell and illustrates the absolute inhumanity of the empire and most of those living in this dire era. (aintitcool.com)
The money behind the movie is being supplied by one David Grovic (aka David Haring), a mysterious Bahamanian businessman whose prior film credits include the ludicrously bad John Cusack — Robert De Niro thriller The Bag Man, which Grovic directed and acted in too. (filmcomment.com)
The film is a snarl of contradictions, starting with the discrepancy between Mann's obsessive demand for realism and the consistently implausible screenplay he developed with first - timer Morgan Davis Foehl (whose prior film credits amount to editing work on Adam Sandler movies). (variety.com)