Twitter learned Ron Howard’s going to direct the Young Han Solo movie, swiftly delivered with “Arrested Development” jokes

It’s safe to say it has been *quite* a week for the Star Wars universe.

Three days ago, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, directors of the upcoming untitled Han Solo film — which has been filming for four months — were fired after facing creative differences with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Yesterday, Lucasfilm announced that A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard would be taking over direction for the project — with production set to resume next month after a brief hiatus.

In the day between Lord and Miller’s firing and Howard’s confirmation, the Apollo 13 director had been cited as frontrunner for the replacement. So fans weren’t *exactly* surprised when Howard was officially named as Han Solo director. But they still took to Twitter to share their thoughts.

But, due to his role as executive producer and narrator of Arrested Development, Twitter also saw an opportunity to make plenty of Arrested Development narrator jokes:

I'm fine with Ron Howard directing the Han Solo film as long as he also narrates it

— Mark 🇺🇦 (@quigonsmith) June 21, 2017

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Twitter: This is a great opportunity to bring the Ron Howard Narrator Voice joke format to Star Wars.

Ron Howard Narrator Voice: It wasn't.

— She-Huck (@TylerHuckabee) June 23, 2017

Disney, to Ron Howard: "Here's some money. Go direct a Star War." pic.twitter.com/gDHYFdm5GR

— Josh Kurp (@JoshKurp) June 22, 2017

Like, a *lot* of Arrested Development narrator jokes:

Lucasfilm: "The Han Solo movie is going just fine"

Narrator: "It wasn't."https://t.co/LDhff0uPLQ

— the post-all system (@HenryBIIX) June 21, 2017

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Han Solo: Don't worry. I've got a plan.

Narrator: He did not have a plan.

— NotAcceptingHorsesHat (@Popehat) June 22, 2017

https://twitter.com/udfredirect/status/877953518958559232

'I bet no-one has made this joke about the Han solo movie yet!'
(narrator voice) 'They already did'

— Dan McFarline (@MonsterJail) June 22, 2017

It’s good to know that in a moment of turmoil — even Star Wars turmoil — Twitter will always come through with a thousand tweets of the same joke.