Star Wars: Lando series potential actors and everything else we know

Star Wars: Lando series potential actors and everything else nosotros know

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A Lando Star Wars series is flying to Disney Plus, but information technology's still unclear who's in the pilot'south seat. As part of Disney Investor Solar day, the company announced a slew of Star Wars Disney Plus announcements. One of them was confirmation of the Lando projection and the news that Justin Simien (the creator of Dear White People) is heading it up.

Lando Calrissian was first played by Billy Dee Williams in the Star Wars original trilogy movies Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Donald Glover played a younger version of the graphic symbol in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Williams then returned in The Ascent of Skywalker.

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Word of a Lando serial first trickled in final July when the podcast Kessel Run Transmission claimed that Glover was on lath to star in a Disney Plus bear witness.

Glover's young Lando was a standout in Solo, which experienced a rocky production process (including the replacement of its original directors with Ron Howard) and went on to be a chip of a disappointment at the box office. The movie has always had its proponents, though, and has since earned more fans while streaming on Netflix and now Disney Plus.

Disney's announcement of the Lando testify did not mention Glover or Williams. The project is even so in the "early stages" of development past Simien. And it'due south being described as an "event series," which indicates it'south a one-off.

As more news comes out, we'll update this page. Hither's everything we know so far about the Lando Star Wars serial.

Star Wars: Lando series release appointment speculation

The Lando series does not yet have a release appointment. Unlike other Disney Plus shows mentioned during Investor's Twenty-four hours, like Star Wars: Andor, we don't fifty-fifty have a target twelvemonth for the prove's debut.

And since Disney'southward talked about all things upward to 2023, we're expecting the Lando moving-picture show to non appear in theaters or even Disney Plus Premier Admission until 2024.

While picture show and Goggle box productions have gotten back to business organisation, after existence close downward for the coronavirus pandemic, things are yet not "full speed ahead."

Since this is being billed as a express series, Lando may be fewer than six episodes, unlike the 8 for a full flavour of The Mandalorian. If Simien writes them fairly rapidly, and casting is sorted out, the show could start filming in late 2021. That would put it on rail to premiere after Andor and Star Wars: Ahsoka in late 2022. Then again, Disney Plus has several other Star Wars projects in the works that might go outset, and then we may not encounter Lando until 2023.

Star Wars: Lando potential actors

Disney did non reveal anything about the Lando series star during the Investor Day consequence. The Kessel Run Transmissions podcast claimed Donald Glover'due south involvement, just also revealed that another Lando thought is "floating around Lucasfilm," centering on older Lando (Williams) and his long-lost daughter Jannah (Naomi Ackie).

We're more inclined toward the possibility of Williams every bit the star.

Why? Glover is an actor, producer and musician (under the name Kittenish Gambino) who is highly, highly in demand. Fans have been waiting for Atlanta flavor 3, the FX comedy he created, for over two years. It seems rather unlikely that Glover would commit himself to a Lando show, no matter how iconic that character is and how well-received his performance in Solo was.

Withal, it'southward a terrific and tantalizing thought — fifty-fifty more and so if Glover partnered with Simien as a producer.

If a Lando series goes the Glover route, it could be a prequel — covering the fourth dimension before Lando met Han Solo. That'southward especially heady since it could include Lando's droid companion and navigator L3-37 (voiced past Phoebe Waller-Bridge). Or, if the show is a sequel to Solo, then it could follow Lando until he eventually builds Deject City. There could be appearances by Han, though Alden Ehrenreich has doused cold h2o on sequel talk in recent interviews.

If the Lando show goes the Williams route, it would be the commencement postal service-sequel trilogy entry into the franchise (bated from the LEGO Star Wars Vacation Special). The testify could bring in Ackie as well every bit other actors from Rise of Skywalker. While John Boyega has been public virtually being "washed" with Star Wars, perhaps other cast members could show upwards, like Kelly Marie Tran as Rose or Joonas Suotamo every bit Chewbacca.

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