BOBA FETT and HAN SOLO Spin-offs Films Coming

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that they know the two Solo (see what I did there) spin-off movies for the Star Wars franchise.  According to the site a young Han Solo saga, focusing on the wisecracking smuggler’s origin story, and a bounty hunter adventure with Boba Fett at the center of a rogue’s gallery of galactic scum will be the two films.

According to their sources, these are the two films slated to be released, although it still is early in the process and that things could always be altered.

The Han Solo story would take place in the time period between Revenge of the Sith and the first Star Wars (now known as A New Hope), so although it’s possible Harrison Ford could appear as a framing device, the movie would require a new actor for the lead — one presumably much younger than even the 35-year-old Ford when he appeared in the 1977 original.

The Boba Fett film would take place either between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, or between Empire and Jedi, where the bounty hunter was last seen plunging unceremoniously into a sarlacc pit. Exactly who would play him isn’t much of a complication – in the original trilogy, he never took off his helmet. And in the prequels, we learned he was the son of the original stormtrooper clone, played by Temuera Morrison, who’s still the right age for the part if his services were required.

In addition to bringing back two fan-favorite characters as the leads of their own films, the Han Solo and Boba Fett projects would also allow Darth Vader, in full-on black death-metal gear, to return as a villain, since placing the spin-offs within the original trilogy would mean he is still alive and hissing. That timeline would also open the door for a return from visit with everyone’s favorite degenerate slug-like gangster, Jabba the Hutt.

Although there is currently no mention of cast or crew for the film, Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston has been slowing laying the groundwork over the years, to be the Director for a Boba Fett solo film.  Expect his name to surely come up in these conversations.

With this in mind, who would you cast as a young Han Solo?  Leave us your thoughts in the comment section below!