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Selected the actor to play young Han Solo

Выбран актер на роль молодого Хана Соло

A young Han Solo in a spin-off of “Star wars” will play an American actor Alden Ehrenreich, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ehrenreich known to participate in the film “Tetro”, “Beautiful creatures” and the new film by the Coen brothers “hail Caesar!”.

Ehrenreich bypassed such contenders for the role, as, Taron Edgerton (“Kingsman: the Secret service”) and Jack Reynor (“transformers: Age of extinction”). In all, the casting was attended by more than two and a half thousand actors. It began in December, 2015 and was held in several stages.

The release of the film scheduled for may 25, 2018. A name she has not yet received. In August 2015 the developers of the film explained that he will be shot in the genre of adventure Comedy. It is expected that the film will be some already well-known to the audience characters of the Saga — Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and Greedo. “The plot will focus on how a young Han Solo was a smuggler, a thief and a scoundrel, as he appeared before Luke Skywalker and Obi-WAN Kenobi in the first film”, — said Director of Lucasfilm Kathleen Kennedy.

Han Solo is one of the main characters of the original trilogy, the pilot of the spaceship “Millennium Falcon”. Solo appears in the episode “the force awakens”.

Star wars — a fantastic epic film directed by George Lucas. Consists of the original trilogy (1977-1983) and the trilogy prequel (1999-2005). The seventh film — “the force awakens” (2015) — beginning of a new trilogy, the sequel, which will be continued in 2017 and 2020. Disney and Lucasfilm plan to make three spin-off “Star wars” that will come out between the movies-sequels. The first spin-offs — Star wars: Rogue” will be released in 2016.

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