While this prequel accomplishes its goals of spinning a yarn about the smuggler's early days, it doesn't quite bridge the gap between Han's early days and the start of A New Hope. As a matter of fact, the movie ends with a lot of threads left dangling, with some surprising appearances and tantalizing foreshadowing hinting at more story to come.
After jetting around the galaxy on a hunt for some expensive fuel, the conclusion of Solo comes down to a whirl of double-crosses, with secret agendas revealed and hard-won loyalties betrayed. Han comes out on top in the end, of course, but things do get a little dicey regarding his interpersonal relationships before the credits roll.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story reaches its climax in the only way a Han Solo movie could — with every scoundrel in the room double-crossing each other.
After accomplishing a time-and-space-bending escape through the dangerous Maelstrom, Han and company make their way back to the yacht headquarters of gangster Dryden Vos, parked in a beachside expanse on the planet Savareen. Their goal for the whole movie has been to acquire a massive supply of refined coaxium to pay off a debt to Vos, coaxium being the magical space goo that serves as both a potent, expensive fuel source and a powerful, unstable explosive.
Before delivering the goods to Vos, Han and friends make nice with the Marauder Enfys Nest, who unmasks herself to reveal that she's a teenage girl fighting on behalf of a nascent rebellion. She's been trying to acquire the coaxium for more noble, anti-establishment goals: Making bombs to wage a guerrilla war against the Empire.
Something about the arrangement appeals to Han's rebellious streak quite powerfully. Suddenly, the scary, once-faceless bandit seems more deserving of the goods than Vos, so Han hatches a plan to let Nest's Cloud-Riders keep the coaxium.
Han's plan is complicated when it's revealed that Beckett has been in league with Vos the whole time. After consistently warning Han throughout the movie to trust no one, he finally demonstrates why with his ultimate betrayal, absconding with the coaxium — and with Chewbacca.
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After a hectic gunfight fatally compromises Vos and his crew, Qi'ra and Han seem to finally reunite. While Han goes after Beckett and Chewbacca, Qi'ra hangs behind in Vos' yacht — and then things get really weird, really fast.
Plugging the deceased Vos' Crimson Dawn ring into a communication device, Qi'ra hails a familiar hooded figure. It turns out to be someone many Star Wars fans — especially people who only watch the movies — figured they would never see again. Though she was introduced as a top lieutenant to Dryden Vos, it's revealed that her loyalties truly lie with prequel star Darth Maul, improbably back from the brink of death to head up the crime organization Crimson Dawn.
Maul, a Sith lord famous for wielding a dual-bladed lightsaber, fighting theatrically, and getting utterly wrecked in battle, is played in Solo by martial artist Ray Park, who first wore the red-and-black face paint in 1999's The Phantom Menace. This time around, he's voiced by Sam Witwer, who voices the character in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars cartoon series.
A lot has changed since the last time we saw this horned menace. This is a Maul that's older, angrier, and outfitted with a set of cyborg legs. But how did this happen, where is it going, and why?
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Last time we saw Darth Maul, he was all over the place. Literally — Obi-Wan Kenobi cut him in half in the climactic final duel of The Phantom Menace, sending him plummeting end over end toward what felt like certain doom.
People who only enjoy the Star Wars movies, as opposed to the wide world of books and TV shows beyond it, are understandably surprised by the left-field reveal that this kitschy character from The Phantom Menace is still alive and well in Solo. As it turns out, Darth Maul actually survived his long plummet down that deep dark shaft on Naboo. Even after being literally split in two, side-to-side right across the navel, the red-horned raging boy without a personality managed to pull himself together.
After keeping himself alive through sheer tyranny of will and getting back on some mechanical feet, Maul went on to have a long and robust life in the Star Wars expanded universe, following in the footsteps of another once-thought-to-be-dead character: Boba Fett.
Now that he's alive again in the movies, what's this disgraced Sith lord going to get up to in the future? There are a couple of possibilities, and not all of them involve Han Solo.
Based on current contracts with core cast members, it's possible that two sequels to Solo could be produced, though nothing's been announced yet.
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