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Following 2015’s Star Wars: The Force
Awakens, we know how Han’s story ends
(sob!), but very little about how it started. In
other words, how he and his co-pilot Chewie
ended up as smugglers in the employ of the
slug-like alien overlord, Jabba the Hutt.
We’ll find out officially on 24 May when
Solo: A Star Wars Story blasts into ODEON
cinemas. Starring Blue Jasmine’s Alden
Ehrenreich, the film takes us back in time to
Han’s early twenties (according to official
canon, he was 29 in Star Wars: A New Hope) for
a daring adventure set – as per Disney’s official
synopsis – “within a dark and dangerous
criminal underworld”. Goodness!
Bumpy flight
Unless you’ve been encased in
carbonite for the last few years, you’ll
know that production on the film
hasn’t exactly been smooth
sailing. “Creative differences”
saw original directors Phil
Lord and Christopher
Miller departing Solo
very late in the day,
with The Da Vinci
Code’s Ron Howard
stepping up. There
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were also rumours of an acting coach being
brought in for Ehrenreich. Understandably,
those looking forward to the film (which, let’s
face it, is all of us) started to get a little nervous,
but then the first trailer dropped and we all
breathed a collective sigh of relief. The
look, the feel, the action, the jokes – it
was pure Star Wars. As for Ehrenreich?
He was perfect. Absolutely so!
In a recent interview with
Entertainment Weekly, the 28-year-
old actor, who hails from Los
Angeles, California, explained
the journey his character
goes on in this prequel.
“I think it tells the
story of a young man
pursuing a dream to
get out of his pretty
rough upbringing,