A new two-minute video has arrived showing footage from Solo: A Star Wars Story along with interview clips with the film’s stars, Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, and Emilia Clarke. Director Ron Howard and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan also discuss delving into Han Solo’s backstory.
Ron Howard explains, “The Star Wars universe that we see in so long it was different from anything else that we’ve seen in a previous Star Wars movies. The Empire controls everything, everyone is struggling to survive, but we discover this incredibly free spirit.”
“You end up getting to see how this guy got to be the way he is it’s all part of this great expansion of the Han Solo world,” said Ehrenreich.
The cast of Solo: A Star Wars Story also includes Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, and Paul Bettany. Kathleen Kennedy, Allison Shearmur and Simon Emanuel served as producers. Lawrence Kasdan, Jason McGatlin, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are the executive producers.
Solo: A Star Wars Story will open in theaters on May 25, 2018.
The Plot: Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
