Readers of the Solo: A Star Wars Story adaptation by Mur Lafferty will be familiar with this scene from pages 40 – 42, and now USA Today reveal that this scene will be one of the deleted scenes on the home video release of the film later this month.
EXCLUSIVE: A young Han Solo and Qi’ra are on the run (and getting wet) in this deleted scene from #SoloAStarWarsStory. https://t.co/47U74isy3Y pic.twitter.com/bvsRJwqtoZ
— USA TODAY Life (@usatodaylife) September 6, 2018
Fans spent only a little quality time on the couple’s home planet Corellia before they were separated in the opening of “Solo,” but usatoday.com has an exclusive look at a deleted scene that shows Han and Qi’ra on the run and almost sneaking in some smooching.
In the sequence, the pair is fleeing with stolen bit of precious coaxium, trying to avoid some bad guys and their snarling Corellian hounds. In an effort to hide, Qi’ra insists that they jump into a vat filled with squirming, eel-like creatures – a throwback (or foreshadowing, depending on how you look at it) to Carrie Fisher’s Leia forcing Harrison Ford’s older Solo into a garbage compactor in the original “Star Wars.”
Young Han tries to make the most of the closeness, but so does a frisky eel that he has to quickly fish out of his pants. True, later he’ll get frozen in carbonite, but having a weird animal down south like that when you’re trying to woo a lady friend is pretty bad, too.
The scene sounds like fun and we’ll be sure to check it out when it hits DVD and blu-ray on 24th September.
