As reported back in May, actor Alden Ehrenreich will play Han Solo in the next A Star Wars Story film, which will delve into the pre-Rebellion backstory of everyone’s favorite scruffy nerf-herder.
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Miller said of Han Solo, “He doesn’t want to do anything he’s told… he’s very sarcastic… and unreasonably optimistic” (via Chris Taylor). They expect to begin filming in late January or early February 2017 – and say there will be plenty of droids on the set. “I’d never acted with a Wookie before”, Ehrenreich said.
The Han Solo standalone film will take place, like Rogue One and the animated series Star Wars Rebels, in the time between Episodes 3 and 4, and will deal with how Han Solo became the characters fans first met in A New Hope.
Once he made it to the shortlist, Ehrenreich revealed that his final audition saw him wearing the actual Han Solo costume (blaster and all) and having to screen test alongside a full in-costume Chewbacca and sharing the stage of the Millennium Falcon. He is clever but he’s not smart. “It was incredible”, said Ehrenreich. “They were the biggest boots to fill”. “It was unbelievable. It was more exciting than nerve-racking”.
“Sorry Kathy – we wasted your money”, said Miller. The casting was one of the several announcements made today at Stars Wars Celebration. Rian moves the camera as good as Steven Spielberg. The information below was compiled from Star Wars Celebration Europe attendees who live tweeted the event.
Boyega confirmed Finn is out of his coma and up and walking around in Episode VIII (via Germain Lussier). Meanwhile, the Han Solo movie won’t even be in theaters until 2018, meaning there’s not much to show right now.
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Following preliminary work in Skellig Michael off the coast of Ireland, the film lensed in Pinewood Studios, England, Dubrovnik, Croatia and County Cork, Ireland.
