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Young Han Solo Hopefuls Whittled Down To Five Actors

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Between them, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety’s Justin Kroll have revealed the short list of candidates to play the young Han Solo in the upcoming Star Wars standalone spin-off film. They have been whittled down from over 2,5oo actors who auditioned or provided audition tapes.

So the shortlist includes Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!), Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction), and Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Blake Jenner (Everybody Wants Some) and Jack O’Connell (Unbroken).

There are rumours that the successful actor will actually debut with a cameo in Star Wars: Rogue One which will be released in December this year.

The Han Solo movie will be directed by The LEGO Movie helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller from a screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan . It is currently set for release in May 2018.

 

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Let The Wookiee Have A Part In Han Solo Movie

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This is probably a piece of news that 99.9% of people hearing it will go, “Well, duh!” but it’s nice to have it confirmed anyway: Han Solo’s BFF Chewbacca will be appearing in the forthcoming standalone Star Wars movie that centres on everybody’s favourite space rogue.

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Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed the wookiee’s involvement with the Han Solo spin-off during Deutsche Bank’s 24th Annual Media, Internet and Telecom Conference, describing the 2018 release as “an origin story about Han Solo and Chewie.”

Chewie’s orgin? Um, surely that was when a mummy wookie and a daddy wookie…? oh, never mind.

The Han Solo solo film will be directed by LEGO Movie helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller from a script by Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan It will focus on how young Han Solo became the smuggler, thief and scoundrel whom Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi first encountered in the cantina at Mos Eisley. It is set for a release in December 2018.

 

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