Related
Warning : major spoilers forSolo : A Star Wars Story .
Solo : A Star Wars Storyis a lot more than just a Han prequel - it sets up several excitingStar Warsspinoff movies to number in the time to come .
Soloprobably looks and feels the most like what everyone was expecting when Disney and Lucasfilm first announced that they ’d be producing a separate track of spin - off movies set in a wandflower , far , out : a fill - in prequel starring young versions of intimate characters , set to classic - vocalize euphony and full of callbacks ( or , rather , measured foreshadows ) to the original series . But unlike standalone war - dramaRogue One , which made a show of obliterating it ’s full unexampled hurl and capping thing off with a sly modulation into the hatchway bit ofEpisode IV , the Han Solo stemma feature seems poise to fix up a whole slew of potential stories - to - come of its own .
Related:10 Craziest Solo: A Star Wars Story Spoilers
The most obvious challenger is aSolo 2of some description , given how Alden Ehrenreich ’s interpretation of the runner is still a foresighted fashion from Harrison Ford , and with the histrion on athree - movie contractthat ’s definitely potential . However , there are some more interesting - and belike exciting - pick too .
Lando
The most obvious , of course , is the prospect of a feature for Han ’s on - again / off - again frenemyLando Calrissian . Already iconic as one of the most complex figures of the Original Trilogy and the franchise ’s most prominent black character for an unfortunately lengthy period of time ( " I recollect he might be only Black guy cable in the extragalactic nebula ! " , quipped a graphic symbol in an infamousFamily Guysend - up ofThe Empire Strikes Back ) , he ’s played inSoloby currently ultra - hot actor / manufacturer / musicianDonald Glover(late ofAtlantaand"This is America"in his Childish Gambino persona ) and is already being tipped as among the next most - likely characters to be granted a big star role .
Lando : A Star Wars Storycertainly make sense , give that the whole of Hollywood has been live to sign the quixotic Glover ( a " eccentric person civilisation " star sinceCommunity ) to a big franchise deal for years and the post - smuggled Panther / Wonder Woman"gold rush " by studios to find the next blockbuster holding targeting previously under - represent demographic ( similar shockwaves are expected from the impending release of the glitzy rom - comCrazy Rich Asianslater this class ) . Plus , apart from business concerns , Glover ’s design of the character as a glib , swaggering , more - than - a - minuscule - vain charmer makes for a compelling departure for a enfranchisement that otherwise has concerned itself with a mettlesome workings - family / military vibration .
Related:Lucasfilm Is Planning A Lando Calrissian Spinoff Movie
Boba Fett & Jabba the Hutt Spinoffs
The other two crime characters most relate to Han are n’t present inSolo : A Star Wars Story , but Boba Fett andJabba the Huttdo have an off - screen presence . But , as two reference long - hash out for the standalone treatment ( Boba is at last getting his own motion-picture show from James Mangold),Solodefinitely lay the base .
Jabba ’s presence is easy to discern . He ’s the " big - shot gangster putting together a crowd " Beckett tells Han about , and when the Millennium Falcon jumps to hyperspace at the veryend ofSolo , that meeting is inevitable : next time we see Han and Chewie , they will have tussled with Jabba the Hutt . It was cover last year that aJabba moviewas being consider by Lucasfilm , although no word has been heard since and the reference inSolois true slight .
Related:How Solo Sets Up The Boba Fett Spinoff Movie
More lineal isBoba Fett , which now hasJames Mangold attached as director . This cinema has been in development since the other years of the Disney - own Lucasfilm , and does get some clew drop inSolo : we hear of characters linked to Boba in intimate way ( fellow bounteousness hunter Bossk and adoptive mother Aurra Sing was toss off by Beckett ) that utterly lead - in to an coming into court .
Page 2:Darth Maul and Crime in The Galaxy
Crime in the Galaxy
In addition to Jabba and Fett , several fresh ( or comparatively - new ) characters and factions also make appearances inSolo , including the criminal faction Crimson Dawn , Enfys Nestand the Cloud - Riders ( who fill the character of an Amerind raiding - political party inSolo’sthematic parallels to the image of Hollywood Westerns ) and Woody Harrelson ’s Tobias Beckett ; an aging outlaw who serves as Han ’s mentor in space - frontier criminalism and ( as fits the characterization ) is implied to have live a colourful life of his own . We ’re also afford a smell at the day-to-day pulverisation of Imperial soldier who are n’t even considered significant enough to get Storm Trooper armour , and the daytime - to - solar day working of theSpice Mines of Kessel .
Probably the most talked - about spin - off prospects come out ofSolowill center onQ’ira , a female lead played byGame of Thrones’Emilia Clarke . She ’s a central figure in Han ’s story despite never having been heard from before in the enfranchisement , a childhood friend and would - be romantic interest whom he was forced to vacate to escape a living of urchin street - thralldom and whom his crook ambition were supposed to be leading him back to " rescue . " or else , she re - enters the story on her own unexpectedly ; having " head for the hills " on her own terms by ( ostensibly ) becoming a feared femme - fatale retainer of Crimson Dawn leader Dryden Vos .
Related:Solo: A Star Wars Story’s Ending Explained - How It Changes Han Forever
apparently , since we know where Han ends up by the time the mainStar WarsSaga gets going , this storyline ca n’t end " happily " for them ; and Clarke is indeed saddle with the task of slinking through the 2nd act ofSolo : A Star Wars Storypractically beg someone to please , please require her about the Very Dark Secret she ’s hiding for a third turn surprise . At first , it appears she might be " only " more attached to Crimson Dawn than she lets on ( perhaps she ’s the genuine great power , not Dryden ? , ) and there are signs that she ’s been through a more interesting life than anyone suspects to get where she is - like , for representative , being a master of Teräs Käsi . But it ’s not untilSolo ’s climax is winding down that the art object are fully let on … if only to the audience and not the other characters : Q’ira is really an trespasser into Crimson Dawn from a more sinister entity - an agent of former Sith Lord Darth Maul .
Maul
While the notion thatMaul indeed survived his apparent deathinThe Phantom Menacewon’t be " news " to fans who ’ve followed other canonical tangent of theStar Warsmythos since , Solomarks his first show in live - natural action in almost 20 long time . And while the connexion between this muscular figure and Q’ira rear plenty of spin - off worthy questions about her alone ( is she an apprentice ? Is she Force - sensitive ? How and when did they become acquainted?)Star Warsfans will almost certainly get hold of on the vista of whether this mean the iconic Sith Lord will be experience again as the dealership fulfill in the gap of its own story .
Granted , Maul ’s endinghas already been compose inStar Wars : Rebels , and appearances elsewhere have established a raspy abstract of a lifespan survive on the fringes of the major action between the prequels and that point . But with Ray Park plain unforced to pace back into the makeup electric chair ( and Sam Witwer enter the transcription studio apartment ) it ’s hard not to wonder where he might appear next , either as a master adversary or part of the storyline . He would easily check into one of the said film , or could he even be desirable of his own feature article ? Could he be an offscreen presence in the much - discussedKenobi- and could Q’ira turn up as a potential resister ( given that Maul and Obi - Wan ca n’t canonically meet again until the outcome ofRebels ) ?
-
All such thing are , as ever , speculation . But what becomes notable is thatSolo’sability to evoke such aspect stands in risible contrast to the longstanding criticism that such spin - offs innately make the franchise itself " smaller " by repeatedly focusing on a comparatively small act of characters repeatedly bumping into each other across the beetleweed . In the end , how unlike or diverse theStar WarsStories become will be dependent on Disney and Lucasfilm ’s approach to each new venture , butSoloat least points the elbow room to an emergent bounty of option .
Next:Star Wars Timeline: When Is Solo Set & How Old Is Han?
