Solo: A Star Wars Story - What Does The Ending Really Mean?

3. A Big Shot Gangster

Beckett tells Han of a big shot gangster on Tatooine, which is where he's going to head next before Solo shoots him, and then as Han and Chewie fly off the big gangster gets another mention.

There's no confusion here, because this can only be Jabba the Hutt.

Jabba was rumoured to be in this movie, while there's been talk of a Hutt-centric spin-off too, and although he didn't turn up here and there's no word on a solo movie, we should be seeing him in a sequel to this (if one actually happens).

When we first meet Han he owes Jabba a lot of money, after dropping a cargo load because of Imperial troops. That causes Jabba to send bounty hunters after him, but probably isn't the first job they pull for him.

As this is 10 years before the Original Trilogy, this instead could mean that Han and Chewie spent years working for Jabba the Hutt, pulling various jobs and garnering reputations as smugglers, leading up to the one that goes wrong.