New ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Images Reveal Details About Paul Bettany’s Villain, The Vandor Heist, And More
Solo: A Star Wars Storyhas just released a flood of new images, revealing a few more details about Paul Bettany’s villainous gangster, the highly-publicized Vandor heist, and what the “clean” Millennium Falcon looks like without people.
First Look at Evil Paul Bettany
Empire Magazine released a fewexclusivefirst looksatSolo: A Star Wars Story, including our first real look atPaul Bettany’s slick and scarred gangster Dryden Vos.
According to Empire, Vos is “being touted asSolo’s main villain, a facially-scarred ‘big-shot’ criminal overlord who recruits a crew of reprobates for a heist.” Originally set to be portrayed byMichael K. Williamsas a half-lion alien, the character was reimagined asa non-CGI characterwhen directorRon Howardcame aboardSoloto finish production after original directorsPhil Lord and Chris Millerwere fired.
Fans have already read far into the fresh new image, withsome theorizingthat the Mandalorian armor behind Vos is actually Boba Fett. Nope, it’s just a collectible Mandalorian armor andBoba Fett is not going to appearinSolo: A Star Wars Story.
A Perfect Heist
Much hoopla has been made of the high-octane train heist on Vandor — it will apparently bethebig action set piece ofSoloafter all — but it may be a different kind of action scene thanStar Warsfans are used to.
“Part of the challenge is to come up with new, inventive kinds of action we haven’t seen inStar Wars,“Soloco-writerJonathan Kasdantold Empire. “We often referencedHeatandThiefas high-end criminals doing serious jobs that involve guns and big hijackings.”
ThoughHeatandThiefcertainly didn’t have its heroes dangling precariously from a speeding train thousands of feet from the ground. Things don’t look great for Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich), but no matter — we know he pulls through.
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The ‘Clean’ Millennium Falcon
One thing that doesn’t pull through quite as well as Han: the Millennium Falcon. It’s still amazing to see the iconic spacecraft in such mint condition, though don’t expect it to stay that way for long. Jedi News has a first look at the “clean” Millennium Falcon without anyone sitting in the cockpit, which you may seehere. Meanwhile,Donald Gloverpiloting the Falcon as Lando Clarissian looks right as rain in the image shared by Howard above.
Solo: A Star Wars StorystarsAlden Ehrenreich,Woody Harrelson,Emilia Clarke,Donald Glover,Thandie Newton,Phoebe Waller-Bridge,Joonas Suotamo, andPaul Bettany.
Directed byRon Howard,Solo: A Star Wars Storyopens onMay 25, 2018.
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in “Solo: AStar WarsStory,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of theStar Warssaga’s most unlikely heroes.
