# Han Solo prequel planned **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607 "2015-07-08T19:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/161 "2018-04-09T01:23:15Z")
[Trailer is up.](https://youtu.be/jPEYpryMp2s) I’m feeling a little more hopeful. I’m generally suspicious of a movie featuring a character or characters who had previously been a supporting type (_Minions_, anyone?). And, frankly, Han is a cocky, smug jerk. Decent, in his way, but still a jerk. But, while I’d prefer to see something based on, say, the Rogue Squadron series of books, or featuring some new and different stories set in this enormous playground, it looks like this will be, at least, entertaining, and that’s all I really ask for. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/162 "2018-04-09T03:55:53Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > [Trailer is up.](https://youtu.be/jPEYpryMp2s) > I’m feeling a little more hopeful. I’m generally suspicious of a movie featuring a character or characters who had previously been a supporting type (_Minions_, anyone?). And, frankly, Han is a cocky, smug jerk. Decent, in his way, but still a jerk. > But, while I’d prefer to see something based on, say, the Rogue Squadron series of books, or featuring some new and different stories set in this enormous playground, it looks like this will be, at least, entertaining, and that’s all I really ask for. I’m torn between wanting it to contribute \*something \*to the greater SWU, and just wanting it to be fun, full stop. Right now, I’m leaning toward hoping it’s a fun caper-style movie. Like Ocean’s Eleven or A Fish Called Wanda. But with a few familiar Star Wars characters. ETA: It seems Lando is gonna upstage Han Solo in his own movie! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/163 "2018-04-09T04:23:10Z")
So, they’re going to add Han in post? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/164 "2018-04-09T04:47:03Z")
I dunno, the more I see his picture, the more I think the guy playing Han looks like a cheesy 1980’s low budget version of Han. Like this would be a 1984 movie named **Space Pirates** or something equally basic. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/165 "2018-04-09T07:25:03Z")
I think this movie should’ve been about Dash Rendar. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/166 "2018-04-09T10:43:28Z")
You can tell they were going for more of a comedy type movie just with these few clips. Of course that comedy idea was what got the first directors fired. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/167 "2018-04-09T10:53:46Z")
Those directors made _The Lego Movie_ and _21 Jump Street_, both of which are wacky comedies more like Zucker Brothers or Farrelly Brothers movies. Not appropriate for something like this (though maybe there’s room for it on less precious parts of the Star Wars universe). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/168 "2018-04-09T12:45:13Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Those directors made _The Lego Movie_ and _21 Jump Street_, both of which are wacky comedies more like Zucker Brothers or Farrelly Brothers movies. Not appropriate for something like this (though maybe there’s room for it on less precious parts of the Star Wars universe). Now I’m expecting Batman to turn up and steal the Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/169 "2018-04-09T13:34:31Z")
I just keep seeing it as an indiana jones adventure… right down to a faceoff with guys with swords and him going for his gun (I assume he has no issue shooting first in this version). ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/170 "2018-04-09T15:57:07Z")
Ron Howard has done a lot of movies but none of them were big budget CGI Sci Fi movies. So that makes it interesting to see what he did with this. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/171 "2018-04-09T15:58:24Z")
I have a mixed reaction to the latest trailer, but more good than bad. I’m sure I’ll see the movie when it comes out; I’m a SW completist. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/172 "2018-04-09T16:58:33Z")
Looks like a fun movie to me! Anyone else catch the irony of young Han saying “I’ve got a good feeling about this…” ? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/173 "2018-04-09T19:56:49Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Looks like a fun movie to me! > > Anyone else catch the irony of young Han saying “I’ve got a good feeling about this…” ? Ha, nice catch. I’m still all for it. Do we know for sure yet if this story will be about the 12 parsec Kessel Run? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/174 "2018-04-09T21:17:40Z")
Looks pretty good, except Harrelson, who stinks everything up. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/175 "2018-04-09T21:17:50Z")
I was coming to post that I’m both surprised and pleased to see that it _doesn’t_ seem to be about the Kessel Run. However, it _does_ seem to be _The Train Job._ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/176 "2018-04-10T04:12:01Z")
The pivoting, twisting Train Job. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/177 "2018-04-10T04:46:44Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Looks pretty good, except Harrelson, who stinks everything up. I don’t mind Harrelson so much, but when are people going to figure out that Emilia Clarke is at best a mediocre actress? I mean, she’s cute and she seems like a nice person in interviews, but in _Game of Thrones_ everyone around her has to carry her scenes because she has absolutely no presence and her countenance varies between “vacant” and “ready to cry”, even when her character is doing absolutely bad-ass Mother-of-Dragson stuff. Whenever she shares the screen with Iain Glen or Peter Dinklage it’s quite apparent, and she sounds about the same here. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > However, it _does_ seem to be _The Train Job._ If any scene in the movie is half as entertaining as [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRlHwwVIug) I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/178 "2018-04-10T06:12:32Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I was coming to post that I’m both surprised and pleased to see that it _doesn’t_ seem to be about the Kessel Run. > > However, it _does_ seem to be _The Train Job._ I’m willing to bet that that space vortex with all the tentacles is in fact the Kessel Run. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/179 "2018-04-10T07:35:12Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I’m willing to bet that that space vortex with all the tentacles is in fact the Kessel Run. If they have dropped the “cashiered imperial officer” backstory that we had in the erstwhile EU, then I’ll be disappointed. Whats the time frame of this movie\> (Alden Ehrenreich is 28. Ford was 35 when first Star Wars premiered). So say, 12 years after Darth got deep fried? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607/180 "2018-04-10T08:02:00Z")
From [here](https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-the-hints-and-details-we-uncovered-in-the-new-solo-1825092510): > [@](#): > > Chewbacca is 190 years old by the time of Solo. The Force Awakens prequel novel Smuggler’s Run - A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure confirmed that Chewbacca was 180 when he took part in the battle of Kashyyyk in Revenge of the Sith, in 19 BBY (before the battle of Yavin) so now we can vaguely estimate that Solo is taking place at around nine-to-10 years before A New Hope. Rest easy, timeline nerds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607.md?page=10)