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

1. There's Definite Franchise Potential

It was revealed a while back that Alden Ehrenreich had signed on for three movies with Lucasfilm, a fairly standard contract but one this movie does use the potential of.

While the box-office figures thus far may mean it never happens, there's a clear chance here for Lucasfilm and Disney to spin-off from Solo in a way that wasn't present for Rogue One.

Solo 2 is the most obvious, since there are still years of his life before Star Wars to show, and a lack of resolution to his story with Qi'ra - along with more of his time with Chewie, another potential run-in with Lando, and his time working for Jabba - means there are plenty of moving parts for a sequel.

The latter could itself be a feature film, with Jabba long speculated to be getting his own movie, while both characters could instead appear in the Boba Fett movie being made by James Mangold.

There's also the opportunity for Lando: A Star Wars Story, something Lucasfilm will undoubtedly be considering due to Donald Glover's performance and popularity. We see him lose his ship here, but get nothing of how a smuggler became the Baron Administrator of Cloud City. And then there's Maul, who could appear in any of these movies, his own film, or the Kenobi spin-off.

Disney expanded the Star Wars movies beyond the Skywalker saga with Rogue One, but it was effectively a prequel to 1977's Star Wars, with no scope for a continuation. Solo, on the other hand, feels like the first Star Wars movie to be made with some serious shared universe potential which, given Disney also owns Marvel, was perhaps an inevitability.

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