In an interview with ABC from 2010, Ford shared his thoughts on killing off Han Solo, saying there was no way to weave him back into the story, and that he was "not so interesting" to him. He continued, saying that Han should have died in the previous film, Jedi, to "give it some bottom," although George Lucas was reportedly against that idea.
It doesn't help that George Lucas started in the literal middle of the story, with Episode IV: A New Hope. Although the original trilogy came out 20 years before the prequels, the prequels are
In case you were wondering, Harrison Ford was 35 years old when he played Han Solo for the first time in 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope, so this means that the new film will be set approximately 15
Reportedly set around 10 years prior to the events of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope, Solo will follow a young Han (Alden Ehrenreich) and Chewie (Joonas Suotamo) as they embark on an action-packed
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