Han Solo | |
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Star Wars character | |
First appearance | Star Wars (1977) |
Created by | George Lucas |
Portrayed by | Harrison Ford [b] Alden Ehrenreich [c] |
Voiced by | Various
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In-universe information | |
Species | Human |
Gender | Male |
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Affiliation | |
Family | |
Spouse | Leia Organa |
Significant other | Qi'ra |
Homeworld | Corellia |
Han Solo (/ˈhɑːn ˈsoʊloʊ/) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. He first appeared in the 1977 film Star Wars, portrayed by Harrison Ford, who reprised the role in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Ford returned to the role for The Force Awakens (2015). In the standalone film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), a younger version of the character is portrayed by Alden Ehrenreich. In the animated series Forces of Destiny (2017–2018), the character is voiced by Kiff VandenHeuvel and A.J. LoCascio.
In the original trilogy, Solo and his friend Chewbacca are smugglers who are hired to transport Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker to Alderaan so they can deliver stolen plans for the Death Star. Although initially unwilling to join the Rebel Alliance in its struggle against the Galactic Empire, Solo eventually does so and in the process falls in love with Princess Leia. In the sequel trilogy set decades later, Solo joins forces with Leia, the scavenger Rey and the former stormtrooper Finn in their fight against the First Order. Solo and Leia's son, Ben Solo, is a leader in the First Order and eventually kills his father.
Since his debut, Han Solo has remained one of the most famous characters in the Star Wars series. In addition to the character being hailed as one of cinema's greatest heroes, Harrison Ford's performances in the franchise have received significant acclaim from critics and fans.
Concept and casting
In the earliest version of the Star Wars screenplay, Solo is an alien of the Ureallian race with green skin, enormous gills and no nose. He is also a member of the "Jedi Bendu" and is acquainted with General Skywalker. The following draft depicts Solo as a bearded, flamboyant pirate. Lucas decided to make him human to better develop his relationships with the other human characters. Chewbacca then assumed the role of the alien sidekick.[1] By the third draft, Solo had developed into the "tough James Dean style starpilot" that would appear in the finished film.[2] Lucas also used Humphrey Bogart as a reference point in his development notes.[1] In 1997, Lucas described Solo as "a cynical loner who realizes the importance of being part of a group and helping for the common good".[3] In 2004, Lucas described the character as the selfish sidekick of the selfless Luke.[1]
When casting Star Wars, Lucas had a preference for unknown actors. He initially resisted casting Ford as Solo, since Ford had previously worked with him on American Graffiti, and was therefore not unknown. Instead, the director asked Ford to assist with auditions by reading lines with other actors. However, Lucas was eventually won over by Ford, and cast him as Solo over many other actors who auditioned.[u]
In Lucas's early story development for The Empire Strikes Back (1980), he felt that Solo is "coming to grips with accepting responsibility." He would be separated from Luke on a mission key to restoring the Galactic Republic. Solo would have to "talk with a leader ... who controls commerce in the galaxy", which the Empire is reliant upon and with whom "Han has some kind of relationship ... like [a] stepfather". Lucas thought this could utilize a backstory involving Solo, who was an orphan who lived on the Wookiee planet until his adoption. In the final film, Solo instead unites with his old friend Lando Calrissian, a powerful businessman willing to deal with the Empire.[12]
Solo appeared in early drafts of Revenge of the Sith (2005). The character would have been revealed as having been raised by Chewbacca on Kashyyyk, and would help Yoda locate General Grievous.[13] Some concept art of a 10-year-old Han Solo was made, but Lucas decided to omit the character's appearance from the film before any actor was cast or considered for the role.[14]
Ford, believing his character should die, was reluctant to sign onto the sequels of Star Wars.[15] Solo's death in The Force Awakens (2015) came about when writer/director J. J. Abrams felt the character was not evolving or contributing to the story's development; he believed that Kylo Ren killing his own father would give him a chance to develop into a worthy successor for Darth Vader.[16] Solo's appearance in the film was influenced by that of Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (2010) during early concept development.[17]
Appearances in the official canon
Original trilogy
Star Wars
Han Solo is first introduced in Star Wars (1977),[v] when he and his co-pilot Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) accept a charter request to transport Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, and R2-D2 from Tatooine to Alderaan on their ship, the Millennium Falcon. Han owes gangster Jabba the Hutt a great deal of money and has a high price on his head. Bounty hunter Greedo (Paul Blake) tries to deliver Solo to Jabba, dead or alive, but after a failed attempt to extort the money as a bribe for letting him go, Han shoots and kills Greedo. Han then prepares to leave Tatooine.
He and his passengers are attacked by Imperial stormtroopers, but escape by accelerating to light speed. When they arrive at Alderaan, however, they discover that the planet has been destroyed by the Empire. The Falcon is then captured and held within the Death Star, a moon-sized battle station constructed by the Empire. Han and company hide from detection inside the Falcon's smuggling bays, and infiltrate the station disguised as stormtroopers. They discover that Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) is a prisoner on board, and Luke convinces Han to help rescue her by promising him a huge reward. They rescue Leia and escape, though Obi-Wan is killed by Sith lord Darth Vader (portrayed by David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones).
After delivering Luke, Leia, C-3PO, and R2-D2 to the Rebel Alliance, Han and Chewbacca receive a payment for their services and prepare to leave. Luke asks Han to stay and help the Rebels attack the Death Star, but he refuses, not wanting to get involved. Han has a change of heart and returns to save Luke's life during the film's climactic battle scene, ultimately enabling Luke to destroy the Death Star. In the film's final scene, Leia presents Han with a medal of honor alongside Luke and Chewbacca.
The Empire Strikes Back
Three years later, Han is still with the Rebel Alliance, and serving on the Rebels' base on the frozen planet of Hoth. While out on patrol with Luke, they witness a meteor strike the surface. Han returns to base while Luke decides to investigate. Han informs Leia that he must leave in order to clear his debt with Jabba the Hutt. Before he can depart, it is discovered that Luke has not returned from his investigation. Han rides out alone into the frozen Hoth wastelands, soon finding Luke near death from exposure. Using his friend's lightsaber, Han cuts open his tauntaun, providing Luke warmth while he builds a shelter until they can be rescued the next morning.
Later, Han and Chewbacca go to check on another meteor strike. They discover that the 'meteor' is actually an Imperial probe droid. The two succeed in destroying the probe, but not before the Empire is alerted to the location of the Rebel base. When the Empire attacks, Han, Chewbacca, Leia, and C-3PO narrowly escape on board the Millennium Falcon. Han evades a squad of Imperial TIE fighters by flying through an asteroid field, and unwittingly flies into the mouth of a giant worm. Han and Leia fall in love during the long journey. They manage to hide from the Imperial fleet long enough to escape, but not entirely unnoticed; bounty hunter Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch), working for Vader, picks up their trail and follows them.
Han and company eventually end up at the Bespin system's Cloud City seeking repairs and shelter from his old friend Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the city's administrator. However, Fett had arrived first and alerted the Empire. Lando betrays Han to the Empire, and Vader has Han tortured as part of his plan to lure Luke to Bespin. Vader wishes to capture Luke by freezing him in carbonite, a fictional metal alloy, and subjects Han to the freezing process first to test its lethality. Han survives, and Fett leaves for Tatooine with his frozen body in tow to collect the bounty from Jabba.
Return of the Jedi
A year later, Han, still imprisoned in carbonite, is Jabba's favorite decoration at his palace on Tatooine. Luke attempts a rescue operation aided by Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, and a repentant Lando, but they are caught. Jabba sentences Han, Luke and Chewbacca to die in the sarlacc pit. Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca overpower their captors and Leia kills Jabba, enabling their escape.
Returning to the Rebel fleet, they discover that the Empire is building the second Death Star, which orbits the forest moon of Endor. Following his return, Han is made a general in the Rebel Alliance, along with Leia. Reuniting with Luke after his return from Dagobah, Han leads a Rebel strike team to Endor to take down the force field surrounding the battle station, which is still under construction. The Empire captures them, but with help from the native Ewoks, Han and his team destroy the Death Star's shield generator, allowing Lando and his strike team to destroy the Death Star. Han then reunites with Leia and Luke on Endor to celebrate the defeat of the Empire.
Sequel trilogy
In The Force Awakens (2015), set approximately thirty years after Return of the Jedi, Solo has returned to his smuggling career. He and Chewbacca reclaim the Millennium Falcon—which they had lost—after the scavenger Rey and the renegade stormtrooper Finn steal it on Jakku. As mercenaries close in on them, Solo takes the Falcon to light speed, and the group escapes. When Solo learns that Rey is looking for Luke, who disappeared years before, he takes them to his friend Maz Kanata, who can deliver the droid BB-8 to the Resistance. While Solo, Finn and Rey are in Maz's castle, First Order troops arrive and capture Rey.
At the Resistance base, Solo reunites with Leia. It is revealed that their son, Ben Solo, was brought to the dark side by Supreme Leader Snoke, and became Kylo Ren, an agent of the First Order. Ren trained as a Jedi under Luke, but left his training and ruined Luke's training program. Leia asks Solo to find him and bring him home, convinced there is still good in him. Solo, Chewbacca and Finn land on the First Order's planet-converted superweapon, Starkiller Base, on a mission to destroy it and rescue Rey. Solo encounters his son, and pleads with him to abandon the dark side. Ren at first seems receptive to his father's request, but then ignites his lightsaber and kills him. In The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Ren experiences a vision of Solo, who once again urges him to renounce the dark side. After a brief conversation, Ren throws away his lightsaber.
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The 2018 standalone film Solo: A Star Wars Story depicts a 19-year-old Han living as an orphan on the planet Corellia. He and his lover, Qi'ra, flee the White Worms criminal gang and attempt to leave Corellia on an outgoing transport, but Qi'ra is apprehended before she can board. Han vows to return for her and joins the Imperial Navy as a flight cadet. He is given the surname "Solo" by the recruiting officer, due to his lack of a family.
Three years later, Solo has been expelled from the Imperial Flight Academy for insubordination and now serves in the Imperial Army. While fighting on Mimban, he encounters a gang of criminals posing as Imperial soldiers. He wants to join them, but their leader Tobias Beckett gets him arrested for desertion and thrown into a pit to be eaten by a Wookiee named Chewbacca. Able to understand Chewbacca's language, Solo joins forces with him and the two escape. In need of additional crew members, Beckett brings Solo and Chewbacca aboard his ship. The crew tries to steal a shipment of coaxium—a valuable hyperspace fuel—but the mission fails. Solo and Chewbacca then accompany Beckett to a meeting with his overseer Dryden Vos, the leader of the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate. There, Solo reunites with Qi'ra, who is Vos's lieutenant. Solo suggests a plan to steal coaxium from the mines on the planet Kessel; Vos approves, but insists that Qi'ra accompany the crew.
Qi'ra leads them to Lando Calrissian, an accomplished smuggler who she hopes will lend them his ship, the Millennium Falcon. Solo challenges Lando to a game of sabacc, with the ship as the wager. Lando cheats to win, but agrees to join the mission in exchange for a share of the profits. The heist succeeds, partly due to Solo's piloting skills during the dangerous Kessel Run. Before the crew returns to Vos, they are intercepted by a group of pirates led by Enfys Nest. After a series of schemes and betrayals, Vos and his guards lie dead and Beckett has departed with the coaxium and Chewbacca as a hostage. Solo pursues Beckett and kills him, then gives the coaxium to Nest and her crew, who are sympathetic to the Rebel Alliance. Solo declines her offer to join the Rebellion, instead returning to Lando's sabacc table for another wager. Solo prevents Lando from cheating this time, and wins ownership of the Falcon. Solo and Chewbacca then depart for Tatooine, where a crime lord is assembling a crew for a heist.
Television
In the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), Han helps Chewbacca join his family on the Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk. He faces Imperial forces on Kashyyyk, and later joins Luke, Leia, R2-D2, C-3PO, Chewbacca, and other Wookiees for their holiday, Life Day. It includes an animated segment, where Ford voices an animated Han Solo.
Han appeared in the animated Star Wars Forces of Destiny episode "Tracker Trouble" (2017), where he was voiced by Kiff VandenHeuvel.[18]
Comics
Solo is a main character in the 2015 Star Wars comic series. Issue #6 introduces Sana Starros as his wife, although a few issues later she is revealed to have only married him as part of a plan to scam a crime lord's gambling den.[19][20]
Star Wars: Han Solo (2016) is a five-issue mini-series set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, which focuses on Han participating in a race.[21] The comic adaptation of Solo: A Star Wars Story reveals that Solo knew his father worked in the shipyards of Corellia.[22] Han Solo – Imperial Cadet (2018) depicts his rebellious days under the Empire.[23] Han Solo & Chewbacca (2022) depicts the duo doing a job for Jabba, who sends Greedo to accompany them.[24]
Appearances in Star Wars Legends
In 2014, most of the licensed Star Wars novels and comics produced since 1977 were rebranded by Lucasfilm as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise. The Legends works comprise a separate narrative universe.[25][26][27][28]
Novels
In Star Wars Legends, Solo's parents are Jonash and Jaina Solo, and the Solo ancestry can be traced back thousands of generations.[29] One of Solo's ancestors ruled the planet Corellia and established a constitutional monarchy three centuries before the events of Star Wars.[30] Solo's descendants continued to rule Corellia, but slowly lost power leading up to the time of his birth.[31][30]
Brian Daley wrote a series of novels (The Han Solo Adventures), from 1979 to 1980, exploring Han Solo and Chewbacca's smuggling adventures before the events of the original trilogy. Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Search (1994) establishes that before A New Hope, Jabba paid Kessel's spice kingpin for a shipment to be delivered by Han; the Kessel mogul then tipped off Imperials about Han's cargo, forcing the smuggler to dump it and incur his debt to Jabba.[32] Ann C. Crispin's The Han Solo Trilogy (1997–1998) develops the character's backstory differently and in more detail,[33] depicting him as a beggar and pickpocket throughout much of his youth. He becomes a pilot and, after his love interest Bria Tharen disappears, joins the Imperial Navy. He is dismissed when he refuses an order to skin Chewbacca for commandeering a ship trafficking Wookiee children; Chewbacca, in turn, swears a "life-debt" to Han. The two become smugglers and help repel an Imperial blockade of a Hutt moon. Han wins the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian in a card tournament. Tharen, now a Rebel agent, employs him, Chewbacca, and Lando, then steals the smuggler's valuables to aid the Rebellion. To compensate their losses, Solo and Chewbacca accept the smuggling job from Jabba, but are forced to jettison their cargo. The final book in the trilogy ends with Han approaching Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mos Eisley to charter them to Alderaan, as depicted in A New Hope.
Solo plays a central role in many stories set after Return of the Jedi. In The Courtship of Princess Leia (1995), he resigns his commission to woo Leia, whom he eventually marries. Solo and Leia have three children: twins Jaina and Jacen and son Anakin. A cousin, Thrackan Sal-Solo, appears as an antagonist in the Corellian trilogy.[34] Han is the general in command of the New Republic task force assigned to track down an Imperial warlord in the 1999 novel Solo Command. Chewbacca dies saving Anakin's life in Vector Prime (1999), sending Han into a deep depression. In Star by Star (2001), Anakin dies as well, compounding Solo's despair. At the end of the series, Han accepts the loss of his son and his best friend and reconciles with his family.
In the Legacy of the Force series, Jacen falls to the dark side and becomes the Sith Lord Darth Caedus. He plunges the galaxy into a bloody civil war, and Han disowns him. In Invincible, Han and Leia adopt Jacen's daughter Allana after Jacen's death.
Character analysis
Mythologist Joseph Campbell said of Han, "He thinks he's an egoist; but he really isn't. ... there's something else pushing [him]."[35] Solo is "a very practical guy" and considers himself "a materialist"; but the adventures in the first Star Wars movie evoke his compassion, a trait "he didn't know he possessed".[36]
Legacy
Solo was ranked as the 14th greatest film hero by the American Film Institute, and was selected as the fourth greatest film character by Empire magazine.[37][38] Entertainment Weekly ranked Solo as the seventh coolest hero in popular culture.[39]
See also
Notes
- ^ Promotional image for Star Wars (1977)
- ^ Original trilogy, sequel trilogy, The Star Wars Holiday Special
- ^ Solo: A Star Wars Story
- ^ The Star Wars Holiday Special, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- ^ Star Wars: Empire at War
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Disney Infinity 3.0
Star Wars Battlefront - ^ Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales
- ^ Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
- ^ Robot Chicken, Mad, The Lego Movie
- ^ Radio dramas and read-along storybook CDs
- ^ Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III – Rebel Strike, Star Wars: Battlefront II
- ^ Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace
- ^ Forces of Destiny
- ^ Phineas and Ferb
- ^ Lego Star Wars: All-Stars
- ^ Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars: Force Commander, Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
- ^ Forces of Destiny
- ^ Star Wars (pinball game)
- ^ Han Solo's occupations in the Star Wars Legends narrative universe include Lieutenant in the Imperial Navy and Corporal in the Imperial Army.
- ^ Legends
- ^ Han's family members in the Star Wars Legends narrative universe include his father Jonash Solo, his mother Jaina Solo, his daughter Jaina Solo, and his sons Jacen Solo and Anakin Solo.
- ^ Other actors who reportedly auditioned for the role of Han Solo include James Caan, Chevy Chase, Robert De Niro, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jack Nicholson, Nick Nolte, Al Pacino, Burt Reynolds, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, and Perry King, who later played Solo in the radio series.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- ^ Later titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
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