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Anthony Daniels cameos in this month’sSolo : A Star Wars Story , but not as his iconic character , C-3PO . The protocol droid has been a basic of the franchise dating back to the 1977 original , as he and counterpart R2 - D2 appeared in the first nine live - activeness films of the franchise . Their roles in the movies have importantly alter over the preceding four decades ( they ’re fleck players in the sequel trilogy ) , but they have remained the one constant through - line through allStar Warsproductions . Even if it ’s just for a abbreviated cameo a laRogue One , fan could always count on seeing the dynamic couplet .
WithSolojust a couple week off from hit theaters , some viewers were wondering if the droids ' staring attendance record would still stand , or if Ron Howard violate custom . Mark Hamill seemingly discover another C-3PO cameo was in the cards whenhe revealed Daniels has a part inSolo , take a shit him the only worker to be in all of the moving-picture show so far . And while it is true Daniels prove up inSolo , he is not portraying everyone ’s favorite interpreter .
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Soloco - writer Jon Kasdan confirmed the news in an audience withUproxx . When asked about the rumors concerning Threepio , the scribe detailed Daniels ' persona :
" No , but Anthony Daniels is in the picture show as a different character . In the Papillon type offshoot history , the Wookiee that helps them run , Chewbacca ’s best acquaintance , is played by Anthony Daniels – and beckons him to join them as they run on a unlike ship . "
UPDATE : Jonathan Kasdan has clear up thatDaniels is not act as a Wookiee inSolo . His character ’s name Tak is a testimonial to legendary camera operator Tak Fujimoto .
Threepio and Artoo ’s cameo inRogue Onewas criticize for being empty lover service , so it ’s probably for the best they ’re not inSolo . give the spinoff ’s criminal infernal region setting , it ’s difficult to ascertain a office for them that sense organic . Evenpossibilities that would n’t negate canon(an Imperial spaceport , Kessel ) ran the risk of feel contrived . SinceSolois already packed with plenty of nods and referencesto the early movies , there ’s no need to shoehorn in two more Greco-Roman characters just for the rice beer of thing . It ’s encouraging Lucasfilm realized this , as it instance they ’re unforced to forego certain stylemark if they do n’t equip . If there was a touch for the droids , Howard surely would have included them , but we ’ll have to hold back until next December to see them again .
Kasdan ’s comparison toPapillonindicates there will be some kind of jailbreak sequence inSolo , quite perhaps on Kessel ( where the Empire employed Wookiee slaves ) . We already knowthe principal line put together by Dryden Vos take in place on that world , and with Chewie along for that drive , he ’s locomote to want to preserve fellow member of his mintage . As for Daniels ' mystery Wookiee ( key out as Tak on the roll list ) , it ’s reasonable to think he plays the oneChewbacca bidding farewell to in the final lagger . Many initially assumed that was Chewie ’s married woman , but there was nothing to support that at the time . Either way , it should be an emotional scene . Because of his life-time debt to Han , Chewie can not accompany his fellow tribe to wherever they ’re going , and he ’ll be shy if he ’ll even see them again .
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