It doesn’t get much bigger than this. Sources over at Deadline are reporting that Solo: A Star Wars Story will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Although Disney haven’t confirmed it, and Cannes are yet to reveal their full roster of films for this year’s event, the trade says that the film will premiere in a special screening on May 15th, before the Ron Howard-directed film makes its global premiere on May 25th.
Related: Farhadi’s Everybody Knows to open 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Solo: A Star Wars Story stars Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo, while Donald Glover plays Lando Calrissian. The cast also includes Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany and Thandie Newton.
The official synopsis for the film is as follows:
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
The only film to have officially been named to play at this year’s festival is Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows, which opens Cannes on May 8th.
More on this as we get it.
