Lawrence Kasdan, the screenwriter behind Solo: A Star Wars Story, has spoken about what it was that attracted him to the movie.
Kasdan, for those who don’t know, is the legendary screenwriter behind multiple Star Wars movies, including The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and The Force Awakens.
Kasdan’s latest foray into Star Wars movies is the Ron Howard directed Solo: A Star Wars Story, penning the script with his son Jonathan Kasdan, and he has recently discussed who Han is in the film and why he was excited by the job to Empire Magazine (via CBM):
“I was attracted to the idea of how this guy became the cynical on the outside, tender-hearted on the inside person we see in A New Hope. What creates that outer shell of cynicism and what creates that core?”
By all accounts, the Han we first meet in Solo will be quite different from the character we know and love from later movies, which makes sense considering the point in time that the events of Solo will take place.
By Kasdan’s comments, we can also intuit that this will really be a character piece as much as anything, revealing just how Han became the way he is by the time of A New Hope.
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A 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 meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
Solo: A Star Wars Story features Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!) as the famous smuggler, Donald Glover (Atlanta) as Lando Calrissian, Woody Harrelson (War for the Planet of the Apes) as Tobias Beckett, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) as L3-37, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Qi’Ra, Thandie Newton (Westworld) as Val, Ian Kenny (Sing Street) as Rebolt, Harley Durst (Wonder Woman) as Moloch, Jon Favreau (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Rio Durant, Tien Hoang (Now You See Me 2) as Moloch’s henchman and Paul Bettany (Avengers: Infinity War) and Warwick Davis (Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) in as-yet-unrevealed roles.
