I framed the headline that way for a reason because OF COURSE Alden Ehrenreich would play Han Solo again. And what would it take for him to do it? The only real answer is that Disney/Lucasfilm just needs to ask, and he’ll be there. However, the Solo actor was on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and was more diplomatic about the possibility of playing the iconic character once more…
“I would. It would have to be the right version of it,” he admits. “What’s cool and kind of free, in a way, is the real fun of (Han Solo), my favorite part of that character, is something that kicks in at the end of the movie. You know, it’s when he becomes that guy at the end, that’s the guy we love. So getting to that, and kind of going from there is interesting so we’ll see.”
“But I think now they’re being so inventive with how they’re using Star Wars and putting out stories in a different way that maybe I could see some out of the box interesting iteration of it somewhere, we’ll see, who knows?”
What he failed to say is that with all of the new stuff Lucasfilm is doing, none of it pertains to Han Solo, due to the poor response specifically to Ehrenreich’s take on him. Now, I quite enjoyed Solo and saw it as the first true popcorn movie in the entire Star Wars franchise, but there’s no escaping the fact that it did badly at the box office.
