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Han Solo
Star Wars character
Harrison Ford as Han Solo [a]
First appearanceStar Wars (1977)
Created byGeorge Lucas
Portrayed byHarrison Ford [b]
Alden Ehrenreich [c]
Voiced by
Various
In-universe information
Occupation
  • Smuggler
  • Cadet
  • General
  • Others in Legends [r]
Affiliation
Family
SpouseLeia Organa
Sana Starros
Significant otherQi'ra
HomeworldCorellia

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,[u] 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. Ford won the Saturn Award for Best Actor in a Film for his portrayal of Solo in The Force Awakens.[citation needed]

Concept and casting[edit]

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.[v]

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]

In early screenplay drafts of Revenge of the Sith (2005), a ten-year-old Solo helps Yoda locate General Grievous. The early scripts also revealed that Solo was raised by Chewbacca on the Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk.[13] Some concept art of the young Solo was made, but Lucas ultimately decided to remove the character from the film.[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[edit]

Original trilogy[edit]

Main article: Star Wars original trilogy

Solo is first introduced in Star Wars (1977). He and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca accept a charter to transport Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi from Tatooine to Alderaan on their ship, the Millennium Falcon. Before they depart, Solo is cornered by the bounty hunter Greedo, who threatens him. Solo shoots and kills Greedo, then boards his ship with his passengers. They are attacked by Imperial stormtroopers, but elude them by accelerating to light speed. When they arrive at their destination, they discover that Alderaan has been obliterated by the Death Star, the Empire's colossal battle station. The Falcon is captured and brought aboard the Death Star, but Solo and his companions avoid detection and infiltrate the station. When they discover that Princess Leia is being held captive, Luke convinces Solo and Chewbacca to help him rescue her by promising Solo a large reward. After delivering Luke and Leia to the Rebel Alliance, Solo collects his payment and prepares to leave. Luke asks him to aid the Rebels in their assault on the Death Star, but Solo refuses. He returns unexpectedly during the battle, saving Luke's life and allowing him to destroy the Death Star. Afterwards, Leia presents Solo and Luke with medals for their heroism.

The carbonite prop used in The Empire Strikes Back

Solo makes his second film appearance in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). He is still with the Rebel Alliance, serving at the headquarters on the ice planet Hoth. He intends to leave to pay off his debt to Jabba the Hutt, but delays his departure when Luke goes missing. Solo rides alone into freezing temperatures and finds Luke nearly dead from exposure. He builds a shelter and they survive until they are rescued. Later, Solo and Chewbacca destroy an Imperial probe droid, but not before the Empire is alerted to the location of the Rebel base. Solo, Chewbacca and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon and fly into an asteroid field. While repairing the ship, Solo and Leia share a kiss. The group then seeks aid from Solo's friend Lando Calrissian in Cloud City. Lando betrays them to the Empire, and Vader tortures Solo as part of his plan to trap Luke. Vader freezes Solo in carbonite and gives him to the bounty hunter Boba Fett, who plans to deliver him to Jabba. Before Solo is put into carbonite hibernation, Leia confesses her love for him.

In Return of the Jedi (1983), Solo is still imprisoned in carbonite. A year has elapsed, and the frozen Solo is a decoration in Jabba's palace on Tatooine. Leia enters the palace in disguise and liberates Solo from his hibernation, but Jabba captures them both. When Luke arrives to bargain for Solo's life, he too is imprisoned. Jabba tries to execute Solo, Luke and Chewbacca by feeding them to a Sarlacc, but they escape with the help of Leia and Lando. Returning to the Rebel fleet, the companions discover that the Empire is building a second Death Star, which is orbiting the forest moon of Endor. Solo, now a general in the Rebel Alliance, leads a strike team to disable the shield surrounding the battle station. After enlisting a tribe of Ewoks in a battle against Imperial forces, the Rebels remove the shield, which allows Lando and his team to destroy the Death Star. Solo then reunites with his friends on Endor to celebrate the fall of the Empire.

Sequel trilogy[edit]

Main article: Star Wars 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 use it to escape from Jakku. When Solo learns that Rey is looking for Luke, who disappeared years before, he takes them to his friend Maz Kanata, hoping she can deliver the droid BB-8 to the Resistance. While Solo, Finn and Rey are in Maz's castle, the First Order arrives and captures 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. Ben trained as a Jedi under Luke, but left his training and became Kylo Ren, an agent of the First Order. Leia asks Solo to 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, intending to disable its shield and rescue Rey. Solo finds 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 and once again becomes Ben Solo.

Solo: A Star Wars Story[edit]

Alden Ehrenreich portrays a young Han Solo in
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 fled with the coaxium and taken 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 Nest's 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.

Comics[edit]

Solo is a main character in the 2015 Star Wars comic series. Issue #6 introduces Sana Starros as his wife, although later it is revealed that she married him as part of a plan to swindle a crime lord.[18][19] Star Wars: Han Solo (2016) is a five-issue mini-series set between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, which focuses on Han participating in a race.[20] The comic adaptation of Solo: A Star Wars Story reveals that Solo knew his father worked in the shipyards of Corellia.[21] Han Solo – Imperial Cadet (2018) depicts Solo's rebellious days in the Imperial forces, while Han Solo & Chewbacca (2022) follows the smugglers as they do a job for Jabba, who sends Greedo to accompany them.[22]

Novels[edit]

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.[23][24][25][26]

In the Legends universe, Solo's parents are Jonash and Jaina Solo, and the Solo ancestry can be traced back thousands of generations.[27] One of Solo's ancestors ruled the planet Corellia and established a constitutional monarchy three centuries before the events of Star Wars.[28] Solo's descendants slowly lost power leading up to the time of his birth.[29][28]

The Brian Daley series of novels, The Han Solo Adventures (1979–1980), explore the smuggling exploits of Solo and Chewbacca before the events of the original trilogy. Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Search (1994) establishes that before Star Wars, Jabba paid Kessel's spice kingpin for a shipment to be delivered by Solo; the Kessel mogul then tipped off Imperials about Solo's cargo, forcing the smuggler to dump it and incur his debt to Jabba.[30] Ann C. Crispin's The Han Solo Trilogy (1997–1998) develops the character's backstory differently and in more detail,[31] 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. Solo 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 Solo approaching Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mos Eisley to charter them to Alderaan, as depicted in Star Wars.

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.[32] 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 Solo disowns him. In Invincible, Solo and Leia adopt Jacen's daughter Allana after Jacen's death.

Other appearances[edit]

In the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), Solo joins Chewbacca and his family on Kashyyyk for the Wookiee holiday Life Day. The television program includes an animated segment, in which an animated Solo is voiced by Ford. Solo also appears in the episode "Tracker Trouble" (2017) of the animated web series Forces of Destiny, in which he is voiced by Kiff VandenHeuvel.[33]

Character analysis[edit]

Mythologist Joseph Campbell said of Han, "He thinks he's an egoist; but he really isn't. ... there's something else pushing [him]."[34] 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".[35]

Legacy[edit]

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.[36][37] Entertainment Weekly ranked Solo as the seventh coolest hero in popular culture.[38]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Promotional image for Star Wars (1977)
  2. ^ Original trilogy, sequel trilogy, The Star Wars Holiday Special
  3. ^ Solo: A Star Wars Story
  4. ^ The Star Wars Holiday Special, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales
  7. ^ Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
  8. ^ Robot Chicken, Mad, The Lego Movie
  9. ^ Radio dramas and read-along storybook CDs
  10. ^ Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III – Rebel Strike, Star Wars: Battlefront II
  11. ^ Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace
  12. ^ Forces of Destiny
  13. ^ Phineas and Ferb
  14. ^ Lego Star Wars: All-Stars
  15. ^ Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars: Force Commander, Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi
  16. ^ Forces of Destiny
  17. ^ Star Wars (pinball game)
  18. ^ Solo's occupations in the Star Wars Legends narrative universe include Lieutenant in the Imperial Navy and Corporal in the Imperial Army.
  19. ^ Legends
  20. ^ Solo'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.
  21. ^ Later titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
  22. ^ 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]

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