It was at Star Wars Celebration a couple of weeks ago that Lucasfilm finally confirmed that Alden Ehrenreich will play Han Solo in Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s upcoming spinoff movie, but it now appears as if the studio is considering an entire trilogy for the hero.

According to a report from the New York Daily News, “Disney has quietly signed the 26-year-old Hail, Caesar! star to a three-picture deal, insiders tell Confidenti@l, paving the way for more Han Solo flicks if the one currently being written strikes gold at the box office.”

These days, an actor being signed to a three picture deal is pretty standard, but if the studio envisioned Han Solo as just a single movie, they probably wouldn’t have bothered doing so.

What this means is that if the spinoff is a hit, we can probably expect to see Han’s story further explored over the course of at least two more movies, though it’s obviously also possible that Ehrenreich could appear as the character elsewhere (there are already rumours pointing to him making some sort of cameo in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in December).

For now, we’ll have to wait and see, but this definitely leaves us with food for thought…