On May 25th, Solo: A Star Wars Story will be released – a prequel to all other Star
Wars films that follows the beginnings of our favourite charming space rogue, Han Solo.
Starring Alden Ehrenreich in the title role, along with Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover and
Woody Harrelson, fans are definitely looking forward to seeing what the Ron Howard film
has in store.
As per any Star Wars film, it’s gotten its fair share of buzz and controversy, so before
the film drops, we decided to put together a list of things that we’re hoping will
make it into the film, with the top 10 things we hope to see in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
10 Sana Solo Marvel's fairly recent comics run revealed
a character from Han Solo's past that many are wondering whether or not she'll make an
appearance in the film - or, it's inevitable sequel.
Which kinda seems more likely.
So in these 2015 comics, it's revealed that Solo had another wife in the past, named Sana
Solo aka Sana Sarros, who had tracked him down across the galaxy in order to bring him
home.
There's speculation that Thandie Newton may be playing the character, although the actress
has been credited as someone named Val.
Sana and Han's marriage wasn't out of love - it was all part of a scam that went haywire.
When things got nasty, Solo took off, abandoning Sana who made it her goal to hunt him down
and return the favour.
9 Boba Fett Of course.
You know it's a Star Wars film when everyone wants to see Boba Fett make another appearance.
And rightfully so.
This time around, people are hoping that Solo Story will give us more Boba Fett the way
that Rogue One gave us more insight on Darth Vader, giving us a glimpse at why Boba was
considered to be the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy.
Many speculate it would work, since there's high hopes that Solo Story will further dive
into the underworld of the Star Wars galaxy.
But maybe don't get your hopes up.
8 Smuggler One of the more notable comments from fans
that has been floating around the interwebs since the teaser trailer dropped was that
Alden Ehrenreich didn’t seem to be emulating Harrison Ford’s version of Solo much.
Most think this is because of how young and inexperienced the character will start off
as at the start of the Solo film.
What we’re really anticipating is how he got his start as a smuggler, and how he progressed
into the character we meet at the start of A New Hope.
7 Consistency If you’ve been following the news about
the film since the initial announcement that it was going to be made, you’re probably
familiar with the swapping of directors that Lucasfilm pulled off after a few weeks of
principle photography.
Originally, the directors of The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, were on
board to direct the film, but were then canned due to rumours that they were using too much
improvisation on set and not following the script.
Their replacement was Hollywood favourite, Ron Howard.
What’s got us curious though is how consistent the film will feel, and if any of the previous
directors’ stylistic marks will still be left on the final product.
Remember what happened to the Justice League when directors got swapped out?
Yeah, felt really odd.
Here’s hoping this film won’t suffer from similar failures.
6 Jabba The Hutt Jumping back to characters returning from
Star Wars episodes 4-6, let's talk about a really obvious one.
Jabba the Hutt.
He and Solo have quite the history together.
While we do know that Han pissed Jabba off when he dumped his cargo during a smuggling
job when Imperials boarded his ship, there may be other circumstances regarding that
situation, or regarding how the two met in the first place.
There's also suspicions as to why Han, being the smooth talker he is, would dump Jabba's
cargo in the first place and risk the reprocussions.
Aside from that, there have been rumours from sources close to the production that stated
Jabba is in the film.
What do you guys think?
Is there more beyond the surface there, storywise?
5 Corellian Bloodstripe Solo has some pretty iconic outfits.
And outfits can be quite telling of a character.
Ever notice the stripes on the sides of his pant legs in Star Wars: A New Hope?
They actually have meaning.
Known as a Corellian Bloodstripe, they're a military award given to those on Solo's
home planet of Corellia, awarded for courage under fire.
A Corellian is entitled to kill without reprocussion any other Corellian or non-Corellian caught
wearing them that hadn't earned them.
So how did Han get his?
We've never gotten a clear answer about it yet.
Han won both classes of bloodstripes, but its rumoured he won them both within several
days, and that perhaps one set of them were due to the events surrounding his rescue of
Chewbacca.
4 The Kessel Run Another unknown when it comes to Solo's past
is his claim that he made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parasecs.
The Kessel Run is a hyperspace route commonly used by smugglers to move spice from the spice
mines of Kessel, as well as other illicit substances.
Solo's claim would have broken the record for the previous fastest Kessel Run.
Why is this a big deal?
The Kessel Run involves several extreme changes in velocity in order to jump to and drop out
of light speed with the minimum time spent out of hyperspace while making drops, pick
ups or tight turns, according in Wookieepedia.
So imagine the skill something like that would take.
Solo had stated that he made the run in the Millennium Falcon.
3 Meeting Lando While we already know that Lando Calrissian
is very much a part of Solo Story - played by the amazingly talented Donald Glover no
less - and we can definitely expect to see a lot about their friendship come into play
in the film.
We're hoping to see more about how that friendship started, and, most importantly, how Han beat
Lando in that Corellian Spike game of sabacc, that won him our next number.
2 The Millennium Falcon I think its a sure bet that we'll get to see
Solo acquiring the Millennium Falcon in this film.
As we mentioned in the previous number, Solo won the ship in a dice game against Lando.
We REALLY want to see how that goes down.
Han keeps the pair of golden dice he won with hanging in the ship's cockpit, so needless
to say, the circumstances leading up to and during the game will probably be incredibly
entertaining.
The trailers have also given us a glimpse at how the Falcon looked when it was in Lando’s
care – it’s pretty damn spotless.
1 Chewbacca’s Wookie life debt And lastly, we're hoping that Solo Story will
shows us how Chewbecca and Han met.
Now we already know that their friendship began after Han saved Chewie's life and he
swore a Wookiee life debt to the smuggler.
During the rise of the Empire, Chewie had been captured by Trandoshan slavers until
Han freed him but the circumstances around the event are still widely unknown.
Director Ron Howard has already described the film as a love story between Chewy and
Han, so we’re excited to see how their bromance blossoms.
There we have it friends!
What has got you the most excited about the Solo movie?
Or are you dreading it?
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