Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo? Have a good feeling about this.
LOS ANGELES -- Alden Ehrenreich, the breakout star of Hail Caesar!, is in talks to play young Han Solo, according to multiple Hollywood trade reports. Disney declined to comment on the casting when reached by Mashable.
Though the Cohen brothers latest was a box office dud, all eyes were on the breakout performance by Ehrenreich, who emerged via extensive screen tests as the front-runner to don the Corellian smuggler's threads.
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Lucasfilm has slated the Han Solo film for May 25, 2018.
He had stiff competition: Dozens of Hollywood's top leading-men-to-be tried out for the part, including Ansel Elgort, Dave Franco, Miles Teller and Scott Eastwood.
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
