20 Things You Didn't Know About Solo: A Star Wars Story

It's not uncommon for Star Wars characters to go through numerous design iterations before the team settles on their final pick, though some of the original designs for two major characters were pretty out-there.

Villain Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany) was initially conceptualised as a dinosaur-esque, bird-like figure, but once the script introduced a love triangle between him, Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke), and Han, the obvious decision was made to make him humanoid.

Qi'ra herself was also depicted as an alien in earlier designs, though in many of these concepts still resembled a physically attractive humanoid as wouldn't have prevented a romance with Han.

Again, though, the safer choice was made to keep Qi'ra human.