{"id":100948,"date":"2018-01-17T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=100948"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:00:03","slug":"solo-a-star-wars-story-gets-a-synopsis-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/solo-a-star-wars-story-gets-a-synopsis-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo: A Star Wars Story gets a synopsis at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we wait in hope for a\u00a0<em><strong>Solo: A Star Wars Story\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>trailer (the film is out in just over four months after all), the powers that be have treated us to the first synopsis for the film:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in\u00a0<strong><em>Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em><\/strong>, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the\u00a0<strong><em>Star Wars<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0saga\u2019s most unlikely heroes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s still quite vague but we would expect nothing else from a\u00a0<em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> story. Here&#8217;s hoping they will release a trailer soon.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Solo: A Star Wars Story\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>stars Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, Donald Glover as a young Lando Calrissian, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca and Woody Harrelson as Beckitt, as well as Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton, Michael Kenneth Williams and Phoebe Waller-Bridge in unconfirmed roles.<\/p>\n<p>The film is directed by Ron Howard, with a screenplay by Jon Kasdan and Lawrence Kasdan.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em> is in cinemas from 25 May 2018. Get all the latest sci-fi news\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.kelsey.co.uk\/subscription\/SCI\">with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the official synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":100949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5885],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/solo-a-star-wars-story-tall-A.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}