give way how Disney hurled theStar WarsExpanded Universeinto the chicken feed compacter , there have been inquiry as to how Solo : A Star Wars Story would address Han Solo ’s origin . A new snip seems to confirm that part of his EU backcloth has made it into Disney ’s new canon . Plus , Thandie Newton ’s Val finally gets to speak . And she vocalise pretty bad .
The clip , shared onJimmy Kimmel Live , focuses on Beckett ( Woody Harrelson ) and Val as they plat to slip some shit during an purple assault on what see to be Mimban ( also from theExpanded Universe ) . They ’re disguised as ground troopers , but they ’re really bad at it — as pointed out by Han ( Alden Ehrenreich ) , an Imperial soldier who ’s eager to get together their military mission .
This is interesting for three reasons . First , we finally get to hear Val speak , and she ’s snarky and kind of a badass . Second , we see how Tobias Beckett and Han first meet on Mimban , an encounter that will have a major shock on the film and Han ’s life . And finally … it seems to sustain something we ’ve long suspected : Han ’s origin tale from the Expanded Universe has been made canon . At least in part .
In the original EU , Han was an ex - Imperial soldier who rose through the ranks with his cherubic pilot skills , only to provide the Empire because he was too all-fired baronial . Here , it ’s been changed up a bit . Based on this andpreviously released clips , Han was n’t always a smuggler . He became a soldier for the Empire because he dream of becoming a airplane pilot … only to get stick as some nobody ground cavalryman on Mimban with zero prospects . face with that kind of future , who would n’t need to join up with Tobias and Val and become a smuggler ?
We ’ve seen a lot of change to Star Wars since the EU was decommissioned , but it ’s skillful when while of that saga many of us loved for decades are brought into the new macrocosm . And , in this guinea pig , the changes they made actually make a mess of sensation . Just quash the midichlorians . We do n’t talk about those any longer .
extra reporting by James Whitbrook .
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