Check Out These Crazy Millennium Falcon Designs For Solo: A Star Wars Story

Han Solo ’s iconic ship , the Millennium Falcon , looks a little unlike inSolo : A Star Wars Story , but concept art for the movie show that the excogitation changes could have been even more extremist . Fanspicked up on the new designfeatures fromSolo ’s trailer and persona , but technically speaking these features are n’t new ; they ’re erstwhile . Soloisset ten yearsbefore the start ofA New Hope , and bring out the storey of how exactly the Millennium Falcon transferred ownership from Lando Calrissian to Han Solo .

As we find out inSolo , the Millennium Falcon is the reason behind Lando and Han ’s first meeting , as Han needs a ship fast enough to remove a steal cargo of extremely - volative hyperfuel to a refinery before the dispatch blows up . It ’s love at first sight for Han and the Falcon , and by the goal of the pic he succeeds in making the ship his own .

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The original Millennium Falcon was designed by the late , heavy Ralph McQuarrie , who pop off away in 2012 . Lucasfilm ’s Design Supervisor , James Clyne , spoke toStarWars.comabout the cognitive operation of designing the younger variation of the ship . The most obvious departure , of course , is theaddition of an relief valve podbetween the two mandibles at the front of the Millennium Falcon . Indeed , many of the changes to the ship are additions - thing that are stripped off over the track of the movie , and in the interim ten years betweenSoloandA New Hope . Clyne explains :

" The path I see it , it ’s like rend a tablecloth off , you recognize those magicians that rip a tablecloth off and everything is still there ? All the things that we know and love about Han Solo ’s ship is underneath that . That was kind of the starting off point . "

Clyne and his squad really design about 60 different versions of the Millennium Falcon forSolo(you may see a few of them above ) , and used McQuarrie ’s original design for the ship as divine guidance . " A deal of the early blueprint were pretty clean , were fairly slick , " Clyne explains . The squad knew that they needed to discover a way to incorporate an outflow pod into the ship , since the script phone for one , and Clyne ultimately settled on a pod that was integrated into the front of the ship :

“ It always had that funny minuscule opening in the front — the lower jawbone — and even as a kid , I remember get the Millennium Falcon toy and I always wonder , why is it shaped this way ? Was there something that was suppose to go there ? Was there more to it ? It was always kind of a closed book to me and here I am 40 yr by and by actually possess to puzzle out that trouble . ”

In addition to the bigger changes , Lando ’s Falcon also has a phone number of decorative embroidery both inside and out , let in racing stripes on the hull of the ship . The design team work around with dozens of unlike possible key jobs , with muscle car serving as the inspiration ( blueprint admit a Millennium Falcon with flames , and one with a Pontiac Trans Am decal ) . But while Clyne sieve through many different possible item , the ultimate design was somewhat quietus and simple . " We dealt in very round-eyed bod , " he explains . “Those shape become iconic and then it just becomes , I think , Star Wars . "