to begin with this calendar week , we got thefirst , long - await lookat Solo : A Star Wars Story . But even then , that feeling was full of perplex closed book … like , who these characters actually are , aside from the scruffy lookin ’ nerfherder and fuzzy co - pilot burner that we already recognize . gratefully , now we really have a few more details .
Solo isEntertainment Weekly ’s later cover tale , meaning a inundation of information about just what we ’ll be experience in this former chapter of Han Solo ’s life . But most significantly , it lets us put some more epithet to the mostly contextless faces we saw in the trailer . Let ’s startle with the ones we did know : Beckett ( Woody Harrelson ) , Qi’ra ( Emilia Clarke ) , and Lando Calrissian ( Donald Glover ) .
Beckett , as Harrelson had antecedently teased , will be Han ’s “ mentor ” in Solo . He ’s looking to hire the young smuggler - to - be for the heist that sits at the heart of the movie , but he will patently first test Han ’s skills with a robbery on the string ( called the Conveyex ) seen in the film’sSuper Bowl spot this past Sunday . Qi’ra , who issuggested in the trailerto be someone who ’s know Han since childhood , is described as a “ vague ” trope that he ’ll “ devolve head over heels ” for . Meanwhile , Lando is … well , he ’s Lando goddamn Calrissian . Not a system , he ’s a man . The man , if you will .
Lando will be joined by his droid fellow traveller L3 - 37 , who is indeed Phoebe Waller - Bridge’spreviously rumored question capture persona , and on the face of it also the co - pilot program of the Millennium Falcon … at least , while Lando still have it , that is .
at last , there ’s two more names mentioned in EW ’s story : Val , Thandie Newton ’s character who ’s hardly glimpse in the prevue , and Paul Bettany ’s Dryden Vos . Val is simply described as “ chargeman - tot up , ” a description that could lend oneself to basically 90 percent of the sentient beings in the Star Wars galaxy . We still do n’t know much about her , other than one set painting where Ron Howard was attempting ( rather badly ) tohide an Imperial insignia on the sleeve of her costume , which could either be a disguise or an indicator she ’s a baddie in the moving-picture show .
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— Ron Howard ( @RealRonHoward)September 1 , 2017
Vos , meanwhile , was n’t in the lagger at all . We only know Bettany ’s involvement in the film thanks to one ofHoward ’s zillions of vexer picturesfrom the readiness during Solo ’s extensive reshoots , and it ’s rumored that the part was the one in the first place played by Michael K. Williams beforescheduling issues prevented his replication .
So there you have it — it ’s only a smidgen more circumstance than we previously had , but its nice to put some figure to some young face . Solo : A Star Wars Story make the jump to theater May 25 .
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