The confirmation just tweeted by the Star Wars twitter account that Donald Glover has been cast as a youthful Lando Calrissian in the Chris Lord and Phil Miller directed Han Solo spin off movie will come as welcome news, but little surprise.
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These are big shoes to fill, and an even bigger cape, and this one fits him perfectly, which will save us money on alteration
The site also confirms more about the film’s plot than we’ve seen before, that it will be ‘bringing two iconic Star Wars characters back to the big screen, but at a time in their lives previously unexplored. This new film depicts Lando in his formative years as a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxy’s underworld’.
Glover will join Alden Ehrenreich in the film, and we eagerly await the casting of the female lead we heard about recently.
Here’s the tweet,
Hello, what have we here? Donald Glover is Lando Calrissian in the untitled 2018 Han Solo Star Wars Story. https://t.co/ChueOBd0fv pic.twitter.com/54JOBM1P9K
— Star Wars (@starwars) October 21, 2016