It also means that in the year that Solo teams up with Beckett's gang on Mimban, the Death Star is being moved from its construction site at Geonosis to Scarif (explaining why the planet is no longer a workable spot for the crew to process their score). Fast forward to Han as a 19 year old on Corellia, and the same year that he and Qi'ra escaped the White Worms, Rogue One's prologue was seeing Jyn Erso orphaned.
But the years don't lie, and in Solo's final scene, there is still ten years to go before Han and Chewie are aproached by Luke and Obi-wan in the Mos Eisley cantina.įor reference, this all means that Han was being born around the same time that the planet Naboo was being invaded by the Trade Federation in Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Not only that, but Solo's final act hints at him traveling to Tatooine to join up with Jabba the Hutt's criminal empire. That might actually seem like longer than audiences expect, and not only because Ehrenreich appears (rightly so) just a few years away from being Han's age in the original movie. The actor playing Han Solo may only be a handful of years younger than Harrison Ford in A New Hope, but according to the official Star Wars timeline, the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story end exactly ten years prior to the first film in the saga. Solo Ends 10 Years Before The First Star Wars He's 22 years old for most of the movie from that point on.Īs for actor Alden Ehrenreich, he's currently 28 years old, just five years younger than Harrison Ford was when he filmed the original Star Wars. The film itself makes a bit of a time jump, leaping forward three years to the point that Han has been booted out of the Navy and into the Army, and stationed on Mimban. When the movie begins, he is around the age of 19 years old as the drama breaks out leaving behind the White Worms and joining up with the Imperial Navy to pursue his dream of becoming a pilot. RELATED: How SOLO's Card Games Change Star Wars Forever But according to the timeline established in Solo: The Official Guide, Han first falls in with the White Worm gang on Corellia at the age of just eight years old. It's not easy to discern how old Han is actually supposed to be in his own origin movie, since it a) stretches across a span of three years, b) has the actual age of the actor to contend with, and c) the age of Han in the original movies is never stated outright.