Following
an extensive search, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have found their Han
Solo in Alden Ehrenreich ("Blue Jasmine", "Hail, Caesar!").
The
actor is in final negotiations to step into a younger version of Harrison
Ford's iconic character and lead Lord and Miller's Star Wars Story. Ford first
played the character in 1977's Star Wars, reprising his role three additional
times in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), and more
recently in The Force Awakens (2015).
Ehrenreich's
casting process pit him against 2.500 other actors including Taron Egerton ("Kingsman"),
Jack Reynor ("Transformers: Age of Extinction"), Miles Teller ("Whiplash"),
Ansel Elgort ("The Divergent Series"), and Emory Cohen ("Brooklyn").
Lord
and Miller will direct the yet untitled Han Solo spinoff from a script penned
by Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon Kasdan for a 2018 release.
The
actor has wrapped filming The Yellow Birds, an Iraq war drama also starring Tye
Sheridan and Jennifer Aniston, and will next appear in an untitled project from
writer/director Warren Beatty.
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