(Note: This post contains light spoilers for “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”)
Lucasfilm’s latest effort to fill out the backstory of well-loved characters from a galaxy far, far away, “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” is full of references. The vast majority of them are to “Star Wars” in general — the original movies, the exploits of title character Han Solo, and the old Expanded Universe of comics, novels, video games and more.
You might have missed one movie reference in “Solo” that goes for something different, though. It nudges the audience to remember another classic sci-fi trilogy: “Back to the Future.”
The moment comes late in “Solo,” when Han (Alden Ehrenreich) and his crew fly through the Maelstrom, a giant space cloud filled with ice and asteroids. As Han takes over flying the Millennium Falcon, he finally gets Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) to sit in as his co-pilot, as the pair...
Lucasfilm’s latest effort to fill out the backstory of well-loved characters from a galaxy far, far away, “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” is full of references. The vast majority of them are to “Star Wars” in general — the original movies, the exploits of title character Han Solo, and the old Expanded Universe of comics, novels, video games and more.
You might have missed one movie reference in “Solo” that goes for something different, though. It nudges the audience to remember another classic sci-fi trilogy: “Back to the Future.”
The moment comes late in “Solo,” when Han (Alden Ehrenreich) and his crew fly through the Maelstrom, a giant space cloud filled with ice and asteroids. As Han takes over flying the Millennium Falcon, he finally gets Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) to sit in as his co-pilot, as the pair...
- 5/25/2018
- by Phil Hornshaw
- The Wrap
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