Firstly let me just admit that I have never been enthused to watch Solo: A Star Wars Story , and that was before Kathleen Kennedy's regime began to set fire to my childhood. I wanted a different actor ( Ansel Elgort ). Then they ditched the original directors (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller) and replaced them with Ron Howard -- who I generally like -- but still, this reeked of desperation. May the Force be with this movie. From Google: "Young Han Solo ( Alden Ehrenreich ) finds adventure when he joins a gang of galactic smugglers, including a 196-year-old Wookie named Chewbacca ( Joonas Suotamo ). Indebted to the gangster Dryden Vos ( Paul Bettany ), the crew devises a daring plan to travel to the mining planet Kessel to steal a batch of valuable coaxium. In need of a fast ship, Solo meets Lando Calrissian ( Donald Glover ), the suave owner of the perfect vessel for the dangerous mission -- the Millennium Falcon."