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After months of searching Disney has found the man who will fill the biggest holster in the Star Wars universe by casting Alden Ehrenreich as young Han Solo. Ehrenreich’s biggest work to date was starring in the Coen Brother’s comedy: Hail Caesar earlier this year.
The film will most certainly cover the story of Han and Chewie’s first encounter and the beginning of their legendary friendship. If the film chooses to borrow any elements from the Star Wars Expanded Universe now known as Star Wars legends after the Disney acquisition then we may see Solo as a rogue member of the imperial navy who goes A.W.O.L rescuing Chewbacca in the process. While the origins of the wookie life debt turned friendship would make a good first act, I hope the film focuses on a more over arching plot about Han’s descent into smuggling. It could be interesting to explore Solo’s first run in with the Hutt’s and the start of that intense rivalry. However after the recent success of both Disney as well as Lord and Miller I trust they will take the world’s favorite scoundrel on an truly epic adventure across the galaxy.
Disney’s Han Solo film releases on Memorial Day Weekend: May 25th 2018!
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