Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
This essential visual guide to Solo: A Star Wars Story™ explores the world of young Han Solo in unparalleled detail. An authoritative companion to the latest Star Wars™ movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide features the fascinating planets, vehicles, and aliens that Han Solo encounters on his early adventures.
Explore key characters, locations, and props in captivating detail with extensive production photography and see the iconic Millennium Falcon as it’s never been seen before, in an exclusive cross-section artwork by Richard Chasemore.
Solo: A Star Wars Story is arriving on home video in a plethora of formats across the planet as we speak, so it’s a good time to look back at the supplementary material that arrived to accompany this rollercoaster of a film with a fresh eye, now that we know these characters far better than we did back in May.
Once again Pablo Hidalgo is our guide and he walks us through the various locations we visit in the film. From the steel streets of Corellia to the mountainous peaks of Vandor, we meet the main characters, major players and locations of the film. Now we’ve lived with Solo for a while, Corellia, Vandor, Moloch, Enfys, Val….all are now a major part of the fabric of the saga, and characters and places we want to know much more about, which is where this guide still shines four months after its cinematic release.
There are numerous new vehicles in Solo including the M-68 landspeeder that Han and Qi’ra steal at the start of the film, the Kuat Drive Yards ATD-C45 Conveyex engine that drives the train Beckett and his gang attempt to hijack for its coaxium and the Modified Caelli-Merced Skyblade-330 swoop that Enfys Nest flies.
We’re also introduced to a bevy of new Imperial vehicles including the TIE/rb an the AT-DT (All Terrain Defence Turret) which drops down to the muddy plains of Mimban, a world made famous in the classic 1978 Alan Dean Foster novel (and potential Star Wars cinematic sequel) Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. And we get a deep dive into Lando Calrissian’s stunning and handsomely tidy (cape closet and all) Millennium Falcon. Once again the incomparable Richard Chasemore delivers a stunning cross-section drawing.
It’s in the record books that Solo didn’t light up the box office. That’s a bigger crime than any committed in this here film. The era, the designs, the look and feel of this era, sitting plumb in the middle of the chasm between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, is pure, unrefined Star Wars. Yes, Han and his cohorts may have refined their cargo of coaxium, but this rough diamond of a film needs no filtering, and Hidalgo’s reference book conveys that perfectly.
It’s a long wait until Episode IX (although we do have the potential treasures of Star Wars: Resistance to fill the gap) so until then be sure to grabs books like Solo: A Star Wars Story: The Official Guide and satiate your hunger for the galaxy far, far away.
