Stars picked for new 'Star Wars' movie

24 October 2016 - 08:59 By Staff reporter

Donald Glover will be the new Lando Calrissian - a younger version of the Star Wars Cloud City administrator turned Rebel Alliance general - in the new Han Solo film. Glover will be joined by Alden Ehrenreich, who will play the young Solo in Star Wars Celebration in July.The film will show Calrissian in his younger years as a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxy's underworld - years before the events involving Han, Leia and Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back and his rise to Rebel Alliance hero in Return of the Jedi.The still-untitled Han Solo film will be directed by Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It will be released in 2018. ..

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