Fresh from its record box office opening with Avengers: Infinity War, it looks like Disney can expect another bumper opening this month as Lucasfilm unleashes its second Star Wars Anthology movie Solo: A Star Wars Story.
According to Deadline, the Ron Howard-directed film is tracking a $170 million domestic opening weekend across the four-day Memorial Day holiday.
That would set a new Memorial Day record, surpassing Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End which opened with $139.8 million in 2007 on its way to a total domestic haul of $309.4 million and $963.4 million worldwide.
Solo has had a bit of a rocky ride, with original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller fired from the project with just weeks of principal photography remaining, with Ron Howard then coming in to direct extensive reshoots.
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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, Paul Bettany (Avengers: Infinity War) as Dryden Vos and Warwick Davis (Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) in an as-yet-unrevealed role.
