Solo: A Star Wars Story - 12 Rumours That Were Utter Bull

Outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there's no movie franchise as passionately and feverishly debated as Star Wars, and even a spin-off as inessential as Solo: A Star Wars Story still had fans clamouring to learn every last morsel of information they could ahead of release.

Though Solo's nature as a prequel places a ceiling on what it can do and how many surprises it can serve up, its clear desire to expand the Star Wars universe nevertheless ensured fans' expectations were subverted in a number of ways.

Sure, Solo delivered predictable fan service in spades, but many of the most buzzed-about murmurs and fan theories still turned out to be total bunk, and some of the movie's best moments actually came totally out of left-field.

Whether you were disappointed that all this speculation was total bull or relieved that Ron Howard and co. went in another direction, these are the 12 most pervasive and prolific rumours that amounted to a whole lotta nothing...