So what the hell exactly HAPPENED to the Falcon between Solo and A New Hope?

[David cgc]

And the exterior actually is in better shape by ANH. Remember, half the hull-plating was gone at the end of Solo, with all the innards exposed to space. This article has some BTS shots of the model as it appeared at the end of Solo so you can see the situation very clearly.

 

[publiusr]

Nice link.

 

[Jayson1]

What happened will be coming to us on Disney Plus in 2022. 12 cartoon episodes of "Falcon" that explores Han and Chewie before New Hope, brought to us by Dave Filoni and will involve Harrison Ford voicing the iconic character for the very last time. Also aboard for the ride will be new characters never heard about until this adventure.

Sere Rine= 20 to 25 year old female smuggler whose father was a famous Jizz musician but wanted to explore the universe but found herself at the age of 19 getting involved with crime capers just to survive.

Ra'dew Himvow= 30 to 40 year old alien man who is the son of Hondo Ohnaka and who is as spirited as his dad and is someone trying to search down and steal the ship and turn Han over to a crime boss that Han upset when he refused to carry abducted Wookie children to slavers.

Human holographic projection of L3-37 once again voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.


Jason

 

[JD]

You seriously need to write that or find someone who can do it for you, I want to read that.

 

[BillJ]

Edit: I looked up that Solo takes place approximately 20 years after The Phantom Menace and around 11-14 years before A New Hope. I guess the Millennium Falcon just aged as gracefully as Uncle Owen, Aunt Beru, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi

Just a well used pickup truck.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Sere Rine= 20 to 25 year old female smuggler whose father was a famous Jizz musician but wanted to explore the universe but found herself at the age of 19 getting involved with crime capers just to survive.

Jason

For some reason, this all of a sudden doesn't sound like a very family friendly movie

 

[fireproof78]

For some reason, this all of a sudden doesn't sound like a very family friendly movie

That's the style of music name.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

That's the style of music name.

I was not aware that was a thing until I just looked it up. Hmm. Guess you learn something new everyday!

 

[Tallguy]

It's, what, ten years between Solo and Star Wars? I figure it's ten years of hard living and if Han and Chewie had the choice between cleaning or tweaking the engines and the guns? Well, we all saw Star Wars didn't we? I mean imagine a civilian plane taking out six F-22s? (Easy? You call that easy?)

What happened will be coming to us on Disney Plus in 2022. 12 cartoon episodes of "Falcon" that explores Han and Chewie before New Hope, brought to us by Dave Filoni and will involve Harrison Ford voicing the iconic character for the very last time. Also aboard for the ride will be new characters never heard about until this adventure.

Sere Rine= 20 to 25 year old female smuggler whose father was a famous Jizz musician but wanted to explore the universe but found herself at the age of 19 getting involved with crime capers just to survive.

Ra'dew Himvow= 30 to 40 year old alien man who is the son of Hondo Ohnaka and who is as spirited as his dad and is someone trying to search down and steal the ship and turn Han over to a crime boss that Han upset when he refused to carry abducted Wookie children to slavers.

Human holographic projection of L3-37 once again voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.


Jason

I would, of course, watch the daylights out of that show. Except for the Ford part. I mean, if you can get him, sure. But VO is not Harrison's strong suit.

I'm a little sad that Solo implies that Han went from Corellia to Jabba pretty much right away. (Other than that and, of course, the nonsense about his name, I adore Solo.)

Well you just got me to launch into one of my favorite rants:

We got EIGHT seasons of Anakin, Obi-Wan, etc. But appearances of Han, Luke, and Leia are doled out like unrefined coaxium.

I don't care if it's animated. I don't care if you recast everybody in love action. I want my gorram Star Wars TV show with Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and a shton of x-wings. My ideal would be to set it between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. IMHO. But if someone wants to make it a Mandalorian Era show? Well, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.

 

[Skywalker]

An animated companion series to TCW covering Luke, Leia and Han's adventures during the war between Episodes IV and V sounds like the most obvious thing in the world. Instead they've chosen to fill that gap in with stories in books and comics.

 

[fireproof78]

I was not aware that was a thing until I just looked it up. Hmm. Guess you learn something new everyday!

Someone needs to order a copy of a guide to the Star Wars universe.

We got EIGHT seasons of Anakin, Obi-Wan, etc. But appearances of Han, Luke, and Leia are doled out like unrefined coaxium.

They are special.

An animated companion series to TCW covering Luke, Leia and Han's adventures during the war between Episodes IV and V sounds like the most obvious thing in the world. Instead they've chosen to fill that gap in with stories in books and comics.

It's not a guarantee people would buy it. Books and comics were the primary vehicle for that era, as well as video games, for a long time.

 

[Jayson1]

You know sooner or later someone is going to figure also that if you can do a Western in Star Wars you can also do a Dinosaur series as well or movie. 3 scientist and a lawyer are invited to a jungle planet by a well meaning family man to come see his new experiment that will also help make money to fund the New Republic's rebirth after Vader and the Empire was defeated. "Welcome to Rancor Park." cue music entrance. Dun a Dun du Dun dun a Dun du Dun.


Jason

 

[fireproof78]

It's not a guarantee people would buy it. Books and comics were the primary vehicle for that era, as well as video games, for a long time.

An animated companion series to TCW covering Luke, Leia and Han's adventures during the war between Episodes IV and V sounds like the most obvious thing in the world. Instead they've chosen to fill that gap in with stories in books and comics.

Thinking about this a bit more and I think part of the issue is simply the legacy from Lucas. Luke, Han and Leia were not the focus after the PT came out. Lucas seemed to have largely focused on the PT and wanting to expand that era that had previously been unexplored. And a lot of fans who grew up with the PT really showed the interest in that era with the popularity of the Clone Wars. So, Han, Leia and Luke got left behind because people seem to want to respect Lucas' ideas for the OT and he wasn't interested in focusing on that. It's been the PT. So, the interest hasn't been demonstrated yet.

 

[JD]

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Well you just got me to launch into one of my favorite rants:

We got EIGHT seasons of Anakin, Obi-Wan, etc. But appearances of Han, Luke, and Leia are doled out like unrefined coaxium.

I don't care if it's animated. I don't care if you recast everybody in love action. I want my gorram Star Wars TV show with Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and a shton of x-wings. My ideal would be to set it between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. IMHO. But if someone wants to make it a Mandalorian Era show? Well, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.

At this point anything with Luke, Leia, Han, ect. would have to be after Return of the Jedi. The first volume of the Star Wars comic and several of the novels covered the majority of the time from A New Hope to The Empire Strikes Back, and the second volume of the comic, which started last year, has now passed TESB and is set between it and Return of the Jedi. I can't really see them completely decanonizing all of those comics, or adapting them, so that pretty much rules setting any kind of ongoing series anywhere between the Original Trilogy movies.

 

[Shawnster]

At this point anything with Luke, Leia, Han, ect. would have to be after Return of the Jedi. The first volume of the Star Wars comic and several of the novels covered the majority of the time from A New Hope to The Empire Strikes Back, and the second volume of the comic, which started last year, has now passed TESB and is set between it and Return of the Jedi. I can't really see them completely decanonizing all of those comics, or adapting them, so that pretty much rules setting any kind of ongoing series anywhere between the Original Trilogy movies.

Same thing was thought about the Heir to the Empire trilogy and all the other publications from that era.

Anything can be de-canonized.

 

[Tallguy]

The moment that Disney announced "everything is canon" I asked "Someday you're going to tell someone making a $150 million dollar movie that they can't do a thing because someone 10 years ago put something in a comic book?"

Heck, Star Trek can't keep on screen events "canon".

 

[Nerys Myk]

The moment that Disney announced "everything is canon" I asked "Someday you're going to tell someone making a $150 million dollar movie that they can't do a thing because someone 10 years ago put something in a comic book?"

Heck, Star Trek can't keep on screen events "canon".

That's not how it works. They'll probably tell the movie guy to ignore the book.

 

[JD]

Even if they aren't concerned with the comics, the fact that they exist at all can be taken as proof that they aren't interested in exploring Luke, Leia, Han, ect. were up to between the Original Trilogy movies onscreen. If there was even the slightest chance that they were going do a show or movie in that era, they never would have let the comics and novels cover it.
And they've made way to big of a deal about everything being canon for them to go and decanonize around 178 comics, and 3 novels, it would just piss off to many fans for it to be worth it. I know a few inconstancies have popped up, like The Mandalorian's history not being 100% consistent with the Aftermath book, but that's not on the level of removing almost 200 comics and comics from the canon.
The difference with Star Trek is that they haven't said that everything is canon, while Star Wars has. Even though it probably isn't technically true, as long as they are telling the fans it is, then they should really stick to it.
And what happened when Disney isn't the same, since they decanonized everything, not just a handful of comic series and some books.

 

[Ithekro]

The only way I can see Disney going back and making new cartoons and such that contradict the current run comics, is if they break down and decide to do a remake of the OT with either all new actors, or actors they have already gotten for the like of Solo and Kenobi. Thereby linking the PT even closer to the OT via way of the same actors. And it doesn't even have to be a beat for beat remake. They can spin it from another point of view and all that.

But the likelihood of that isn't all that good. Star Wars itself is their baseline with The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi how they do things. That would be incredibly hard to recapture the magic of Star Wars.

 

[fireproof78]

That would be incredibly hard to recapture the magic of Star Wars.

They should really stop trying to recapture and make something new in the franchise.