There’s been a deluge of Star Wars news this week, leading up to Disney’s D23 convention in Anaheim this weekend. While we won’t get a new The Force Awakens trailer at the event, the news hasn’t all been bad. And we’ve finally learned about that Han Solo Anthology movie Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are making.
Back in July, Miller and Lord were officially hired to direct the Solo solo movie, with Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan will write the script. Since then, there’s been no news on the project, which sort of makes sense since it won’t hit theaters until May 25, 2018.
But Entertainment Weekly got some new interesting tidbits about the movie in an interview with Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy. She explained that the film will help audiences learn how Han, originally played by Harrison Ford, became the wise-cracking smuggler that we all love.
“You can imagine, given who we’ve chosen to come in and direct, it should be very entertaining and funny,” Kennedy said. “Han Solo is the character inside Star Wars that everybody knows has a wit and sense of humor. So that’s what this should be.”
Kennedy didn’t go into details on the story of course, but she did say that the Han in the film will be in his 20s or late teens. “We’re not introducing you to a 10-year-old Han Solo,” she told EW. That’s a relief.
Sadly, there wasn’t much Kennedy could say about the Anthology movie Simon Kinberg is producing. Fantastic Four director Josh Trank was supposed to helm that film until he left in May. Kennedy said that it is still in the works, but couldn’t confirm rumors that it is about Boba Fett. The project will also probably not hit theaters until 2020, following 2019’s Episode IX.
The first Anthology movie, Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One, hits theaters in December 2016.
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