Emilia Clarke Cast in Han Solo Stand-Alone Movie
The official Star Wars site announced the casting of Emilia Clarke (30) of Game of Thrones fame for Han solo stand-alone movie.
StarWars.com is excited to announce that Clarke, known for her stirring portrayal of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, will join the upcoming untitled Han Solo Star Wars movie. Clarke’s role will round out a dynamic cast of characters that Han and Chewie will encounter on their adventures.
Clarke joins Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover — previously cast as Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, respectively — in the highly-anticipated film, which is set prior to the original Star Wars trilogy.
Emilia Clarke is heading to a galaxy far, far away in the upcoming untitled Han Solo Star Wars movie.https://t.co/5EntiY4ktq pic.twitter.com/o1M2fTWTp0
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 18, 2016
We will follow this story as it develops and new details about Clarke’s role come to light.
As of yet untitled Han Solo stand-alone movie, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller is set for release in May, 2018.
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Another British brunette, must be Rey’s mother!
Yup, Sally Skywalker.
No offense, but you’re being an idiot right now.
She’s clearly Snoke.
By the Force, I think you’re onto something!
Damsel #01
I LOVE Delicious Targaryen….dude, she’s super-dreamy
The Force is strong with Game of Thrones.
Great addition to an intriguing movie.
Han and Lando better not touch her Krayt Dragons.
Han love interest IMHO
Chewie’s love interest, duh!
Han? Nah. She’ll definitely be the smooth galactic entrepreneur’s latest venture. 😉
In all seriousness, considering the type of female characters featured in this era of Star Wars and what I’ve seen of the actress’s characterization in Game of Thrones, I’m guessing she won’t need or even want a man in her life. Could Han be interested in her? Of course, but I wouldn’t expect it to be reciprocated.
Lando’s love interest.
Any news if this is the role Tessa Thompson and Zoe Kravitz were up for? If so, maybe they cast Clarke so as to make Ehrenreich appear tall enough as Han ( by comparison ) – I imagine Tessa Thompson would be too tall for Ehrenreich perhaps?
Umm, I’m pretty sure they cast her because she plays one of the most popular characters in the single most popular TV show on the planet.
When did they cast Penny from Big Bang Theory?
Is Big Bang Theory popular outside the US?
I’ve heard the notion that Game of Thrones is the most successful TV show worldwide bandied about a lot. Don’t know what metric is being used, but I’ve been biased toward it due to the fact that I teach a student body of students from all around the world, and Game of Thrones seems to be wildly popular across the board among them.
Just looked it up and at least a few sources cite number of worldwide downloads and number of countries that broadcast Game of Thrones (170) as the metric for claiming it’s the most popular TV show globally…
Then why didn’t they cast male actors from GoT?
Also they liked her audition and she’s a good actress.
Because otherwise nobody would take any notice of this little “Star Wars” thing.
I hope its not because that would likely make this character Sana Solo unless they have completely taken the character out of the script and replaced her with a white woman.
Glad she is getting a second chance after the terminator disaster.
The movie was bad.
She was good in it.
I thought the movie was decent fun. Not the worst Terminator movie by any means. That award goes to Terminator 3. Emilia was okay in it too. She’s not my ideal choice of what Sarah Connor would look like in this alternate universe thing going on with Genysis but whatever.
Can’t agree more. 😛
Salvation was the worst for me.
Salvation was just taking itself way too seriously, and wasn’t really a fun movie.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I’m sure someone who has seen it more recently could elaborate on why it wasn’t a “good” Terminator movie besides being drastically different from the other films.
Gonna have to agree to disagree on that one. 😉
She is going to be playing Dani Stargarion mother of Wookiees.
I have a bad feeling about this… unless she’s wearing a helmet all time. What about not casting faces that are too well known. What’s next? Benedict Cumberbatch?
I don’t know: I was a fan of Ewan MacGregor before episode I came out, and it didn’t distract me; nor did the presence of Liam Neeson, whose role in Schindler’s List was (for me at least) pretty unforgettable. I’d even strongly associated Natalie Portman with her role in Leon at the time. None of it bothered me…
eye roll
omg, the whining knows no bounderies
maybe she’s voicing Wioslea http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/9/93/Vuvrian_AA.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070527022010 🙂
or Wol Cabbashite…http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/9/93/Vuvrian_AA.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070527022010
Not a fan of this choice. Not a fan of the Han Solo film idea.
I do really like Emilia otherwise… and I totally admit to being wrong about Gal Gadot and Anne Hathaway. So who knows… maybe I’ll be 0 for 3! 😛
how about the character played by Jenny Cresswell that was cut from the cantina scene in A New Hope
…..why?
HAHAHAHA I myself am not sure about this movie, but come on, in the comments section even the casting of an actress not reprising anyone else’s role is a disaster!
Mother of Trandoshians
I seriously laughed a lot 😀
Mother of Krayt Dragons.
Perfect. I said mother of wookies and scrolled down and saw this. 🙂
They really like british brunettes at Lucasfilm… Anyway, it was a good choice imo.
She’s obviously talented. I don’t watch GOT but I understand that a lot of the actors involved are incredible. I just hope she isn’t taking a role from Tessa Thompson who would be such an awesome addition to the movie.
Sister so you have a twin sister.
(Han askes Lando)
I can see her as female Mandalorian from The Clone Wars
that’s amazing! I love her work
She’ seems nice, always smiling and joking in interviews. I can’t say her acting has stood out in anyway. what’s more important is that they pick her for the right role.
Yes. First mother of dragons now Mother of wookies.
They went for fan service. Least excited i’ve been for a casting choice in these new Star Wars movies
This spiked my interest in the Han Solo spin off some what but still dont have a good feeling about this, hope they prove me wrong!
Edit: You guys think she will portray a new character or existing? e.g.
-Doctor Aphra
I just hope her role will be subtle and not taking us “out” of the movie. I like Emilia but I didn’t liked her in GoT actually. My opinion is that she’s been miss-cast on that one.