Speculation What role will Han Solo play in the ST?

I'd love to see Han in kabuki makeup.

 

Or he could be in the Khmer Rouge too. Not really his style, though.

 

I wonder this, too, but maybe it would be best to talk about Luke in a thread of his own? This one should be all about Han.

 

Thanks for taking my post seriously.

 

He'll be the Admin for the JCC.

 

I'm still hoping for Han to be the Rooster Cogburn of Episode 7. Drunk for most of the movie, and perhaps even sport an eyepatch for the full effect.

 

He'll be a legitimate member of the military with a family. He'll just not always obey orders and use his own methods. Think of captain Kirk if he actually got married and stayed with his family.

 

Not really sure, i think both could work.

 

Han Solo is one of the most iconic figures in the OT if not the whole Star Wars universe. He was at his best when he was a "scoundrel" and calling his own shots. Harrison Ford was concerned about the Han Solo role in RoTJ, that it was "uninteresting". What type of role will make Han Solo interesting in the new film(s) -- a General, an Admiral, a rebel?

 

Supporting character who is probably the father of a new lead, gets to be a bad ass for a little bit then dies some heroic death. Thats my prediction.

 

I would not be shocked at all if Han was the one to bite the bullet. I might cry a little (would be the first time I've ever cried at a movie since I was like six), so that goes to show it would be effective.

 

I think they need to extactly go back to his carefree days as a smuggler, that is what made Han Solo so Legendary, We NEED THE SOLO WHO SHOOTS FIRST BACK at least for Episode 7.

JJ Abrams has not said much and any real news is very, very slow in forthcoming, and they are clearly going to guard this upcoming film with everything they got, but one thing that has been said is that Abrams is going to "attempt to bring back the magic that we all remember form Star Wars "A New Hope" that the Galaxy, the Feel of the movie and the characters themeselves and the look of the film will all take us to that place in May of 1977 when Motion Picture Filmmaking was changed forever and the greatest Film saga of all time was born....

If that can be taken Literal, then we should expect Captain Solo to be back in with his full Smuggler on !!!!

 

He should be a patch-eyed drunk who got kicked out of the Alliance. The Falcon has been sold to a corpulent Toydarian.

 

You called. At least that's what I think would feel right for him. I think Harrison Ford likes the idea of returning to the character one last time, but will not want to come back for a fifth movie.

 

You know what? I would like to see Han as the most "successful" and "respectable" of the OT Big Three. The great General Solo, on of the pivotal leaders of the post-Endor Alliance/New Republic Military. Someone that spent the next 15 to 20 post-RotJ years leading from the front. Obviously not some desk-bound bureaucrat.

Just like I can see Lando going into politics. Though I have a hard time seeing Luke as a Yoda or Mace Windu type sitting on the council. Kind of see Leia more that type. Far more then a politician like her mother (and not really the Supreme Chancellor). I see Luke as more of the guy who wanders, teaching Jedi. But also digging up old stuff on the Jedi and finding recruits. Basically the guy when the new Jedi have a question there masters can't answer they say "go seek out Master Luke".

 

I think that Han will be a respectable, yet uncomfortable, almost-retired leader in whatever new configuration exists post-Empire. I also see him (along with the other OT characters) getting pulled into "action" through the good and/or sinister deeds of the new generation. I think that he will die a noble death, which is what Harrison Ford wanted for ROTJ. I also see him as being one of the few people who will be able to talk trash to the revered Luke Skywalker.

 

I could see that. Obviously some threat would have to bring them all together again, but as a starting point, yeah, I think it works.