Alden Ehrenreich is in final negotiations to play the young Han Solo for the second of Disney’s stand-alone Star Wars anthology films, Deadline is reporting.
Ehrenreich (Hail Caesar!, Beautiful Creatures) will star in the film which covers Solo’s life before events that happened in A New Hope (see “Han Solo, Solo in 2016?”). The film, currently titled Han Solo: A Star Wars Story, is in preproduction, with directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller at the helm, with release planned for May 2018.
A Han Solo comic miniseries, set between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back was recently announced by Marvel (see “Star Wars 'Han Solo' Comic Series Announced”).