Well, there you have it. Chris Miller, the co-director of the new Han Solo-centered Star Wars spin-off, has thrown his answer in the ring regarding George Lucas' controversial and oft-debated edits to the 1997 re-release of A New Hope: HanFirstShot pic.twitter.com/KReR6rgKFT — Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) January 30, 2017 Okay, okay: It's probably just a pun to mark the first day of shooting on the spin-off film.