Donald Glover is playing young Lando Calrissian and 'Star Wars' fans are pumped

"I don't even need Han's story. Just give me Lando's!"
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Chloe Bryan
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Donald Glover is playing young Lando Calrissian and 'Star Wars' fans are pumped
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Donald Glover has just been officially cast to play a young Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo standalone film, and the internet is pumped.

After the news broke Friday, Star Wars fans as well as Glover fans -- we're talking more people than the entire population of Cloud City here -- expressed their profound excitement on Twitter.

2018 better kick in like lightspeed, y'all.


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Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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