'Solo: A Star Wars Story' trailer: Who is Chewbacca hugging and other burning questions
The first full-length trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story (watch it above) gives us plenty of young Han Solo — but it’s Chewbacca who’s got tongues wagging. The trailer for the stand-alone Star Wars prequel, which takes place about a decade before A New Hope, shows how our favorite bounty hunter (played by Alden Ehrenreich) became part of the criminal underworld, with the help of female companion Qi’Ra (Emilia Clarke), charismatic hustler Lando (Donald Glover), ringleader Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson), and a shiny new Millennium Falcon. And, of course, there’s Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), who is younger and svelter and exchanges a hug with a mysterious fellow Wookiee. Social media is dying to know: Is this Chewie’s wife, Malla, introduced in the notorious 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special and canonized in the Aftermath novels? Or does Chewbacca have other hairy companions in his (190-year) life?
Is this Malla?! Please tell me it’s Malla. 🙏🏽 #SoloAStarWarsStory https://t.co/Tsb5DLlM47
— Jennifer Landa (@JenniferLanda) April 9, 2018
Chewbacca got blonde streaks and is out there breaking Lady Wookie hearts in his younger days like a 90s boy band frontman. pic.twitter.com/DxPrdqL7hc
— The Stefano De La Cuesta (@THE_Stefano_DLC) April 9, 2018
Wookie head butt is the only way that I will show love & affection in 2018 #SoloAStarWarsStory pic.twitter.com/GYMujgN4ir
— Hammie (@balancedpadawan) April 9, 2018
Star Wars podcaster James Baney also noted that Chewbacca appears to have been digitally added to a few scenes in the trailer, which suggests that the Wookiee’s role in Solo has been bumped up in re-edits.
Noticing that they have since ADDED Chewie to a few scenes is interesting. #SoloAStarWarsStory pic.twitter.com/88l5XSonSc
— James Baney (@Mirahtrunks) April 9, 2018
Besides speculation about Chewbacca’s love life, social media is abuzz with love for Donald Glover’s Lando — not to mention the colorful creatures and cocktail-serving robot who join him at the Sabacc table (where, according to Star Wars legend, Han wins the Falcon away from him).
HERE FOR DONALD GLOVER AS LANDO pic.twitter.com/pwWS4v7ZXq
— skywalker (@tolkienianjedi) April 9, 2018
Just watched the trailer for #SoloAStarWarsStory. All my life I’ve wanted a lightsaber. Now: A floating cocktail robot. pic.twitter.com/sgzicWtEwD
— Joseph Scrimshaw (@JosephScrimshaw) April 9, 2018
The creature designs here are already the best we’ve seen from the new movies. I want action figures of Eyeball Dude yesterday. #StarWars #Solo #SoloAStarWarsStory pic.twitter.com/XOqYH2HzMi
— Billy Buehler (@The2ndQuest) April 9, 2018
Some fans were excited to get a first look at Paul Bettany’s villain, crime lord Dryden Vos.
Paul Bettany. That is all. #Solo pic.twitter.com/4N3KkVKIKJ
— Mary Liz Adams (@MaryLiz_Adams) April 9, 2018
Others were psyched about the new female droid.
Droid Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the best droid already in the history of Star Wars, sorry Alan Tudyk and BB-8. #Solo
— Smilodon (@Smilodon2049) April 9, 2018
Some are speculating about the mysterious new female villain, Enfys Nest, and her potential relationship to Emilia Clarke’s character.
Wait…what if Qi’ra IS Enfys Nest pic.twitter.com/rMuJDKTbiF
— Sith Observer (Qi’ra is Enfys Nest don’t @ me) (@sithobserver) April 6, 2018
I have a theory that the gunslinger duel with Enfys Nest (should it turn out that, yes, she is Qi’ra in disguise) will be one of the last scenes in the film, and Han shoots her and that breaks his heart (hinted at in the recent Last Shot excerpt) making him into a hardened “Solo”
— Ilya Glazkov (@IlGlaz) April 9, 2018
And some are already planning their cosplay as Range Troopers, one of the film’s new Stormtrooper variants.
These Range Troopers look dope in the new Solo movie. @starwars #SoloAStarWarsStory pic.twitter.com/MoWXsbSKyV
— Ryan (@Ryanbluh) April 9, 2018
Finally, plenty of Han fans have also started connecting the dots between the character’s past and future, just as Lucasfilm intended.
find someone who looks at you the way han solo looks at the millennium falcon pic.twitter.com/aRfeXUNk54
— skywalker (@tolkienianjedi) April 9, 2018
“Assume everyone will betray you…” #SoloAStarWarsStory
(The feels.) pic.twitter.com/rNqBKSZJr9— Noor-Hal of Jakku (@noorhal) April 9, 2018
“I’VE GOT A REALLY GOOD FEELING ABOUT THIS.”
we’re gonna find out what changed our favorite space smuggler into a man who would rather say,
“I’VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS.”
hold me. i’m emotional.#SoloAStarWarsStory #solo
— EMY (@MusicOfEmy) April 9, 2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story opens in theaters on May 25.
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