Disney’s stand-alone Star Wars movie about Han Solo in the days before he met Luke Skywalker is not scheduled to hit theaters until 2018, but the role has been cast. The scruffy-looking nerf herder will be played by Alden Ehrenreich, who you may remember from the movie Hail, Caesar!
Why did they select an actor so early? Because he will have a cameo appearance in the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which is scheduled to be ready in December of 2016. -via Uproxx