Not exactly the most closely guarded secret in the galaxy, but good news to hear it confirmed. According to Esquire it appears that the new young Han Solo Alden Ehrenreich will be coming back as Han Solo sometime in the future (confirming that Han survives the events of the first film*) as he signed up for three movies.
He knows what he’s getting into. It’s a deeper commitment than just one movie. Even Ford couldn’t quit after just one. I ask Ehrenreich how many he’s signed up for. “Three,” he says, then flinches, understanding he may have just created a disturbance in the Force. “I don’t know if that’s officially, uh, public. But—yeah.” Anyway: Between auditions for Solo, Ehrenreich took a trip out to Death Valley. “I stayed in, like, a high-end tepee, which you can rent out there,” he says. “I’m making myself sound a lot more rugged than I actually am. I’m also getting green juices delivered to the tepee.”
Fingers crossed that means we don’t get the entire kitchen sink in 29 days time and some of the Solo backstory is kept for future films. Of course, down the line we could be looking at new actors portraying our heroes in their original trilogy prime, telling stories set between the events of A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and beyond. Let’s hope.
*Spoiler alert.
