Following the release of the new trailer, the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly features new images and plot details for the upcoming Han Solo movie.
Watch the new trailer below as well.
New details include:
- The Han Solo movie is said to be a combination film noir and Western, with buddy comedy elements smuggled inside.
- Han we meet in this film is more of an idealist,
- Emilia Clarke plays Qi’ra, who has known Han Solo longer than anyone.
- Han and Chewbacca cling for dear life to the Conveyex. There’s something on board that they aim to steal.
- Woody Harrelson’s Tobias Beckett, organizes the heist at the center of the story. He is a powerful criminalwho’s hoping to up his status with a big score by organizing a daring heist. For a guy who didn’t grow up with a father, Tobias Beckett becomes a mentor to Solo.
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge (best known for Fleabag) plays the droid, a sidekick of Lando’s. She has more personality than the average Star Wars ‘bot.
- The reason the Millennium Falcon looks different remains to be seen.
- Image #9 – The Mudtroopers are on the planet Mimban from the 1978 novel Splinter of the Mind’s Eye (book isn’t canon).
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
Solo: A Star Wars Story has a May 25, 2018 release directed by Ron Howard starring Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, Woody Harrelson as Becket, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, with Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
