Disney is spinning Star Wars off harder than Yoda chucking a backflip, and as part of their galaxy-conquering film expansion, they’re knocking a dedicated Han Solo flick together.
Natch, finding a young gun who’s ready to play the stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-lookin’ nerf-herder has proven to be a bit of a challenge for casting directors – they’ve apparently already churned through 2,500 would-be Hans.
The Hollywood Reporter reckons the list contains basically every established leading man and up-and-comer you can think of. Dave Franco, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Tom Felton, Logan Lerman and The Walking Dead’s Chandler Riggs amongst many, many others have already been chucked around as possibilities.
Obvi, there are a couple of caveats: said actor needs the gusto to pull off some serious stunts while cracking wise in hives of scum and villainy across the universe. Oh, also, they should ideally look a lil’ like a young Harrison Ford. Reminder:
Young Harrison Ford ?? pic.twitter.com/Xf1y3bz91U
— Alicia Rangel (@rangel_alicia) November 18, 2015
Hooo boy. Good luck, guys.
The film is set to start shooting in 2017, so they’d better make like the Kessel Run and pick a dude in less than twelve parsecs. No word yet on who could play a young Chewbacca, but we already reckon Shia LaBeouf could walk it.
Story: The Hollywood Reporter.
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Photo: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff via Getty / Twitter / Jim Spellman via Getty.
