First Star Wars: Han Solo Cast Photo Revealed. Movie Confirmed for a May 2018 Release!
StarWars.com has just revealed new cast photo from the second Star Wars spin-off movie about the adventures of young “Han Solo”. The photo features directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and all already revealed cast members + confirmation that Thandie Newton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are indeed part of the cast. We also get a first look at Chewbacca played again by Joonas Suotamo, who also played the Wookiee in The Force Awakens. Also we get an announcement that cameras are already rolling and that the movie is still slated for a May 2018 release. Exciting times!!!
Cameras are rolling on the adventure-filled past of the iconic scoundrel and everyone’s favorite Wookiee; principal photography on the untitled Han Solo Star Wars Story officially began February 20 at Pinewood Studios, London.
The movie will explore the duo’s adventures before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, including their early encounters with that other card-playing rogue from a galaxy far, far away, Lando Calrissian.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are directors co-piloting the movie, with a cast that includes Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, Thandie Newton, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, with Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca.
“Watching such inspired people from all over the world, with such unique voices, come together for the sole purpose of making art, is nothing short of miraculous,” Lord and Miller said. “We can’t think of anything funny to say, because we just feel really moved, and really lucky.”
The report confirms Thandie Newton as part of the cast. She was rumored to be in negotiations by Variety a few days ago (here).
And it’s funny that actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who just a few days ago said she doesn’t know anything about the rumors that she will appear in the movie, is now officially part of it. 🙂
The announcement also mentions that the movie is still slated for release on May 25, 2018. This puts an end to the rumors that the movie might be moved to December.
Founder of SWNN, MNN and The Cantina forums.
Born on April 24, 1980.
Looks good. I’m glad they decided to stick with May. Then we only have to wait 6 months after the Last Jedi for another taste of Star Wars.
I will say that Alden does look a lot like Han Solo in the photo. I’m impressed.
Then again, it’s kinda nice having the X-Mas season blocked in by SW films of late – on the down-side, it makes the wait for Ep. IX all the more agonizing (!)
I had a long drive in the snow to get to Rogue One on opening day. May makes the trip a lot easier for me. I want the release in May for my own selfish reasons.
I’m wondering if they will keep it in May to test the waters there.
But you have to wait over 1.5 year after the Han movie for the next movie
Is it just me, or do I see some red alien hand on the middle console? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a53a1b3ff0841e4ff9081ff1a97d1767cf48ea3eb99fcb2c4fb7b43ce67378af.jpg
It’s a Easter Egg !! it’s an Easter egg !!
Do you know what/who it is?
Chewie’s schwantz…
It’s Snoke!!! We will finally find out some backstory on Snoke in the Han Solo movie!!! 😉
Maz Kanata hand. :))
Its too red for that.
Emilia Clarke’s right hand, it has the same nail varnish.
Could be. The character Emilia plays isn’t confirmed yet, right? What if she is Ahsoka Tano and this is an easter egg? Ashoka was a female Togruta, a species characterized by colorful skin tones. Just throwing it out there!
Omg Emilia is Ahsoka!
One could hope! 🙂
I’ll reserve judgement until I see them all in costume.
I won’t – this rocks!
Kudos. My comment wasn’t meant to be negative. But until I get a better idea of just how this movie is actually going to look I’m not 1) going to praise it to the heavens or 2) denounce it as being unnecessary and something nobody asked for. It’s all good so far.
zero expectations which should help…
C’mon, bro! You can be optimistic! I KNOW YOU CAN.
Lol…I’m just so not wanting this. It’ll probably end up being my favorite!
Just sooooooo many other movies they could have done.
Read today that they may have Jaxxon in a background shot of the Solo movie, if that tells you anything. Time will tell.
Gotta accept Alden looks more like Harrison in that picture than before
Has a touch of Swayze there, but looking better. Also no expectations. Best way to go into these. Like Rogue One. How awesome was that !
I also think it’s great to have it still in May. That would be awesome !!!
Cool! Alden looks more like Harrison than ever.
Is it just me or is Chewie looking weird? Like a dopelganger, his cousin or something
Chewie looks fine to me. Was just wondering if the colouring is different to Force Awakens or ANH ??
It’s the eyes. Joonas was looking down and his eyes got blocked by the costume.
I really hope the costuming department steps it up a bit. That blue hoody is taking me outta the vibe.
I just hope they lighten up on the excessive fan service this time.
Funny we are getting more content from the Han Solo movie than The Last Jedi. Or the same amount of news at least.
Great pic, loving the cast. Chewbacca’s eyes are so creepy though.
Haha. Count on Woody to be the goofball not paying attention to the camera.
Chewie, we’re home..less
*Checks out first cast photo*
Interest amps up to level 11.
Send it Disney.
Stop everything and watch this: This is so good. Didn’t go for cheap laughs. Went for realism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0KMUZSVAqw&spfreload=5
Uh, there were some cheap laughs there. But all in all, I thought it was great.
Yeah, it was a change of pace from their normal stuff.
That was pretty cool..”oh now you remember me? Luke this man isn’t who he says he is!” Lol
I’m accepting this as canon of what he said.
#HanShootingNow
This deserves more upvotes.
Daaaaang, only 5 months between SW movies.
Oh look, more brunette white women. Seriously are Mon Mothma, Jessica Pava, Shara Bey, Nakari, and Doctor Aphra the only non-brunette white human women in the galaxy? (And yes, I know about Satine, Sabine, and that one female Senator in the deleted scenes of ROTS.)
Quit bitching a-hole.
Because how dare I have an opinion on the fact that the main female characters of the series all look the same.
To be fair, not all pale brunette women look the same.
Fair enough, they don’t, but you can’t tell me that Carrie Fisher, Natalie Portman, Daisy Ridley, and Felicity Jones don’t look very similar (especially Daisy and Felicity.) Emilia at least doesn’t look as similar, but the other girl in the picture (I don’t know if that’s Thandie or Phoebe) does remind me of the other three.
Now, I will concede that in the case of Natalie, Carrie, and most likely Rey they cast them because of the similarities, but come on. What did they expect would happen when they cast Felicity?
brunettes are best
*red heads. 😉
the highs are high, but the lows can be very low
You talking about red heads or women in general? 😉
redheads haha
Hahahaha!!! Oh man. Truer words rarely spoken.
Blessed to be married to one 🙂 They need more in the SW Universe…that’s for sure!
Tack on an English accent and I’m in love.
Bingo!
Can confirm, have a brunette wife.
Kelly Marie Tran
Forgot about her.
Very interesting that the May release date is there to stay. Hopefully it means that Episode 9 will be in May as well.
I hope we get to see Maz again!
I do too! would love to see more takkodanna and early cheiwie & maz interactions
That’s one my favorite scenes in TFA. “Where’s my boyfriend?… I like that wookiee”
Maybe Thandie Newton is “Young” Maz???
960 years young Maz (at the very least)?
Maybeeee but why wouldn’t they just use Lupita?
Idk, I’m just taking shots in the dark to be honest.
don’t worry, I won’t tell you the odds of shots in the dark…
I’d still put money on this moving to December. It’s been too profitable plus the extra breathing space between films.
I dunno. They’ve been hell bent on getting a movie back to May. This surprises me, actually.
December has been such a happy accident they’d be kinda foolish to give it up.
Star Wars can release whenever the heck they want and everyone and their dog will go see it regardless.
Yes they will but it’s repeat viewings that makes it a monster. And that’s less likely to happen in the summer when there is so much else to see. But as AI suggested this might be test for two year, which is interesting.
2 a year would be too much. A good legacy film needs a solid buildup. If Disney makes 2 a year, the viewers would only have half a year to prepare between films. This would lessen the amount of actual fan interaction, which would hurt the hype, as essentially, through various fan-theories, as well as other fan-interactions, the community is a self-hyping machine.
Well. If they’re going to try for two a year…
Don’t tease me. 😉
THIS MOVIE IS SACRILEGE! NO ONE CAN PLAY HAN SOLO BUT HARRISON FORD!!!!
SACRILEGE!!!!
#notmysolo 😉
Genuinely made me laugh out loud 😀
That’s actually hilarious, thanks for the laugh.
okay
While I agree mostly, the rest of the cast has given me optimism about the film. It still has a huge job to convince the audience that this guy we are seeing on the screen grows up to be the character that we all love and adore. If they don’t convince us the movie will fail, critically at least.
As cool as it is to feel like star wars could return to may, i was just kinda getting used to December as “star wars month”. It will be hard for me to have an overload of amazing marvel, star wars, etc blockbusters and then have a drought December. Seems like a strange move business-wise too. Disney will miss out on all that force-Friday Christmas hype and cut into its own profits with its other summer blockbusters like Infinity War, which will totally overshadow a bunch of the marketing for this film. I mean its a few weeks out so it should be just fine, but still it seems like an odd move just to avoid Avatar 2.
The only solution I can see is to release two movies a year, one in May, one in December.
That would just crowd the calendar even more, wouldn’t it?
I have a fever, and the only prescription is more Star Wars.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/63265822c04b0b05abd84fcb01ebf8bc0ccc0030bb5222b87b06ddc45d3f841b.jpg
I don’t know what people are talking about. The resemblance to Harrison Ford is strong with this one.
It’s pretty close. Now we just have to hope the story is compelling and doesn’t ruin our perceptions of established characters. If anyone could pull it off it’s Disney/Lucasfilm… but I don’t envy them at all.
Well ok… I do but for other reasons lol.
That pic makes him look like it but when have magazine covers ever portrayed the photographic truth of what someone really looks like? Not that I’m complaining, They should stick with this for all the press release stuff.
Even if he didn’t look much like Harrison I’m sure with all the magick and trickery Hollywood is capable of they’d be able to get the look right. I’m not too worried.
Yeah, but I’m not sure it matters too much if he doesn’t look like a carbon copy provided he can act like Han Solo.
Whaaaaaaaaaat? :-))))))))))
I’ll admit that I was skeptical when this project was first announced, but there’s so much great talent behind it that I can’t help but be hyped!!
Good catch. He is still listed as chewie for TLJ at though.
The extent of his involvement in TFA was when Chewie was sitting in the Falcon. He cannot do any walking in the role because of his knee problems.
Yep. Still, it’s a bit sad. I just hope he lives for a long time.
Nothing wrong with brunettes, but come on, let’s like at the main female characters of the series: Padme, Leia, Rey, and Jyn. All pale skinned brunettes.
Full disclosure though, I’m mainly upset about more brunettes because of the whole Jyn could be Rey’s mom fiasco. They make fun and deride theories that are based in “hey, you cast someone who looks a lot like a character whose mother is a big question mark so maybe Jyn is Rey’s mother” but then keep casting main female stars who all look similar.
Nah im just messin with you, I see where you’re comin from. They seem to be very keen on diversity this time around, so who knows who we’re gonna meet next. And, while I love Felicity as Jynn, I totally agree with the fact that those “Jynn is Rey’s mother” rumors could have been avoided simply by just making her character different. Here’s to the inevitable Emilia Clarke’s character is Rey’s mother rumors!!
I’m very glad they’re going for diversity. To be honest, I don’t have much to bitch about on the race front considering I am white, but enough with the brunettes already, lol. We can have blonde, brunette, redhead, ravenheaded, white haired, and bald men in Star Wars but like hell will Lucasfilm cast a *main* female character who is not a brunette, jk.
Nearly every famous redhead in Hollywood is fake, Probably why Mara Jade was so popular.
If that’s the issue, then throw a blonde in there for variety.
So you think fans would learn and stop basing theories off that, but noooooooooooooooooo
To be fair the Luke + Jyn = Rey theory was based off more than physical resemblance.
Just a few points were:
– TFA asks the question of who is Rey’s mom, which would be immediately followed by Rogue One
– Rogue One would make Rey’s mother be her own character rather than a dead mother footnote
– The parallels of Jyn being the one who stole the plans to the Death Star and Luke being the one to destroy it
– Jyn having a kyber crystal
– Jyn and Luke being around the same age, and the proper age to be Rey’s mother
– Jyn has a british accent like Rey
– Jyn’s mother was a follower of the church of the force, which had a branch on Jakku where Rey was left behind
– Jyn had a stormtrooper doll which could have been a parallel to Rey’s rebel pilot doll
When there are so few options for Rey’s mother, people are going to look at all the candidates very seriously, beyond the physical resemblance. What I’m saying is that it really was a missed opportunity, but I’m not mad that it didn’t play out that way. What I’m mad about is how Lucasfilm leaves people alone with their ridiculous theories like “Rey is the reincarnation of Anakin” or “Snoke is Jar Jar Binks” but slams the breaks on something that actually makes sense when you think about it, and then derides people for believing it when they continue to cast actresses who fit the same look.
All that said, I’m not about to start theorizing that either of these women will end up being Rey’s mother. I just pray that whoever is, doesn’t end up being some nameless dead womb.
And it was still wrong. Oh well!
Yep. That’s my feelings on it. It would have been a good opportunity, and if it was true there was evidence to back it up, but it’s not true, so oh well.
No, I think that stuff makes the galaxy smaller.
To each their own. (Love your name and avatar btw)
Indeed! Thank you!
Woah. Is this what it feels like to have an internet disagreement of opinion end civilly? It feels so weird.
haha, right? I can always curse your mother if you like. Make you feel at home.
Solid Directors…good casting….have the Kasdans writing….I’m liking where it’s going! Still a hair skeptical, but I like what I see so far
I’m surprised there’s no mention of Maz yet. I don’t care for that character but it really seemed like they put her in TFA just for the purpose of this film.
They probably want it to be a surprise.
Re: “seemed like they put her in TFA just for the purpose of this film.”
Force mystery character –
Seemed more to me that they wanted someone *wise* w/sensitivity to the Force….Yoda’s dead & Luke wasn’t avail, so Maz.
Where is the Game of Thrones chick?
Right in the middle, below Chewie. You know her hair is not bleached blonde naturally don’t you? 😛
She should marry a bantha, like me!
https://youtu.be/ZGSLoR-2IS0?t=7s
Still not hyped… But I will watch it.
hyped
So l glad they keeping the May date. If they’d done it for Ep. 8
With this cast & crew, I’m surprised it isn’t a 4/20 release date
AH YEAHHHHHH
No dice
https://youtu.be/XKpClZ4HSf0?t=30s
Sick!
ok im excited now. The movie better have Jabba, Boba Fett and Greedo though.
I could do without that fan service.
making episode 7 and rogue one was fan service dude. Everything is fan service.
They contained fan service, yes, but fan service that generally made sense and didn’t feel shoehorned in. I don’t want this movie to be Han: Greatest Hits.
It’s not “fan service” to show the relationships he has with Jabba and Fett. In fact, it’d be pretty fucking dumb to ignore it and not explore and establish it.
It honestly depends on how it’s done if it comes off as fan service or as something that adds to his story. Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but does it say anywhere that Han knew Boba Fett prior to a new hope? (in new canon of course)
This movie takes place YEARS before A New Hope. We don’t need to shoehorn in every character that’s ever met Han.
bet it ends this way….
“TWELVE!!!!!!”
No…just….no.
Wow, three whole seconds out of the film. I apologize.
But it’s such an awkward call back that it screams “LOOK AT ME!!!! REMEMBER THAT THING? THAT YOU LIKE?? REMEMBER? IT WAS THAT TIME THAT HAN SAID THE THING?!!! GOOD TIMES, RIGHT?”. It’s not the frame-count, it’s the mileage 🙂
Nah, it’s the frame count. That, and the fact that it makes perfect sense that Rey would be a Han Solo fanboy.
we share our hate for fan service – it´s cheap and takes one out of the story in the first place…..well, me at least….
They were always going to have to do fan service to begin with, don’t worry they’ll get to doing something more original in time.
Jabba and Fett maybe, but not Greedo.
If they have Jabba, i think including Greedo is a good idea. Because Han knows Greedo, because Greedo works for Jabba. I don’t think there’s anything in the movies to suggest that Han and Fett know each other personally. By reputation, yes. But a personal relationship, who knows?
Not sure, but if its received well I would be up for more Han Solo adventures with those characters. So maybe just Greedo, since he’s a lackey of Jabba’s.
How do you all like River Phoenix as young Indy in Last Crusade?
“You lost today, kid. But it doesn’t mean you have to like it.”
https://youtu.be/OKYWXIAJKNM
https://youtu.be/3XfWxeszXEI
Good point, well presented.
Well yeah, clearly River would have made a fine Young Han Solo, alas had he been alive now, he’d have been too old now anyway.
Again someone who doesn´t seem to see a slightest difference between 15 y.o. Indy VS 45 y.o. Indy and 28 y.o. Han VS 33 y.o. Han….. 🙂 not mention the 13 cm shorter younger Han
no thanks
Movies they could be filming instead of Han Solo:
Kotor
Knights of Ren
Obi wan film
Darth Vader Solo
Ahsoka Tano
Original Clone Wars Conceptual Finale
Any movie where 1000 Jedi fight 1000 Sith
And none of this is a better (or worse) choice than Han Solo.
I would agree with you if young Harrison Ford was staring. At this point I’d rather them leave Han Solo alone.
KotOR, Obi Wan, Darth Vader – would be cool but no more so than Han Solo. Ahsoka Tano, Clone Wars – no, just no.
I was with you up until the last one. Over the top lightsaber porn is not for me, despite how many fans seem to get off on “more is better” when it comes to lightsabers.
More isn’t always better and it needs to have a compelling story. But the thing is never once have we seen an army of Sith take on an Army of Jedi and I want to see it once. I envision something like The Two Towers with lightsabers.
your last pick could come into play if they did a Bane trilogy…at the point where he wipes them all out with the thought bomb…The Bane trilogy would make the best movie, if they go right by the book and have it R rated.
What I like about the Han stand alone idea is that is was originally George’s idea.
But I do really like the idea of a Vader movie. The Vader comic was well done. It would also give them an opportunity to maybe expound on some Sidious ideas: Did Sidious kill Padme in order to turn Anakin? Did Sidious or Plagiues create Anakin? How long has Vader planned on taking out the Emperor? Maybe they could bring back the Vader/Xizor rivalry.
Well, this looks promising…
Great cast!
Well, just can’t wait.
Only to see the Millennium Falcon and Chewie again it worth it.
Alden has a lot of charisma. Would be funny to see him with the wookie.
I hope Donald keeps the beard. It ups his cool factor, and gets him closer to that impossible to reach Billy Dee coolness.
Great idea, would love to hear Han question why he’s got a beard and to have Lando reply with something along the lines of looking older.
Re: “have Lando reply with something along the lines of looking older”
Might be more in line w/the character to imply it’s “for the ladies!”.
Lando’s a smooth operator.
haha brilliant!!
I hope there isn’t a teen version of everybody that have crossed han solo’s life (e.g. the asteroid worm, greedo, etc) like if everybody in the universe studied in the same high school musical college of superboy Smallville
Proof that Disney doesn’t listen to nor care what the fans think or want right there in one picture.. This movie is going to be dumb as hell
This movie was approve during George Lucas’ regime. Try again.
No it wasn’t, Lucas didn’t even plan for spinoffs like this, and even if he did it means jack shit. Lucas literally has no control over anything Disney does with the franchise at all whatsoever.
Anyways I’m guessing this will be fun, and hoping it won’t try to be anything more than that. Just a Big Trouble in Little China style romp and nothing more. But the cast looks like a bunch of random people hanging out with Chewbacca. If they really try to tell any kind of serious story and foreshadow things to come here this is gonna suck.
“In late 2012, Lawrence Kasdan was invited to Lucasfilm to discuss the new Star Wars projects that George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy were planning. Lucas had developed ideas for a number of potential films, and Kasdan agreed to write the one based on a young Han Solo.”
-Wookieepedia
Really not sure about this movie, but I believe it’ll have a great script, and the directors are talented and Alden was good in the one movie I saw him in (Hail Caesar).
From bottom left
Eddie Munster
I want to be Mo-Cap
Female 3po
Hey Hayden I won’t work again either
Will NEVER be Carrie
Sorry I thought this was the Scooby gang reunion
I’m not the real 1
I probably deserve to lose my ship