Fans hoping to see Han meeting Chewbacca, winning the Millennium Falcon and completing the Kessel Run should be careful what they wish for in spin-off Related: Alden Ehrenreich confirmed to play young Han Solo in Star Wars spin-off The legend goes that Harrison Ford only got the chance to audition for the part of sardonic space smuggler Han Solo in 1977’s Star Wars because he happened to be working as a handyman at Elstree Studios during George Lucas’s shoot.