Solo: A Star Wars Story - 10 Reasons To Be Excited

9. American Graffiti Meets Star Wars

Star Wars might be George Lucas' most treasured creation, but the director was also responsible for another all-time classic years before that film's 1977 release: American Graffiti.

Centred around a group of teens on the cusp of adulthood in sixties America, the film was revered for its uncompromising portrayal of an America in transition, with Vietnam looming overhead, and with the fifties slowly ebbing away. It's a stunner of a film, and featured an early appearance from Harrison Ford as well. The comparisons with Star Wars, however, end there - until now.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is a tale of Han on the cusp of becoming the man he'd be in the original Star Wars trilogy, and while there are no hotrods to be seen, there are speeders, and one shot that derives heavily from Lucas' early directorial effort - which, lest we forget, also starred a young Ron Howard - in the trailer's opening moments.

If there's a kind of speeder/hotrod culture on Correllia, you can be damn sure that Han would be a part of it. That, and it'd form a neat callback to Graffiti, with Ford having played a prominent role in the film as an arrogant street-racer.