The premiere of “Solo: A Star Wars Story” will air on Sunday, July 26.
The film will air at 6 p.m. ET/PT.
“Solo” will air again Monday, July 27, at 5 p.m. ET/PT.
Here’s how TNT described the film:
“Board the Millennium Falcon and a journey to a galaxy far, far away in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, a Young Han Solo meets his mighty future co-pilot, a 190-year-old Wookie named Chewbacca. They encounter the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian and begin a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.”
“Solo” recently debuted on Disney Plus for the first time, bringing the entire collection of “Star Wars” films to the streaming platform for the first time.
“Solo” was one of the two spinoff “Star Wars” films released under the Disney era. The film’s poor earnings at the box office — which earned $392 million at the worldwide box office — didn’t meet Disney’s reported expectations, leading to questions about Disney’s spinoff idea.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said this approach — similar to what was done with Marvel — doesn’t work with “Star Wars,” as I wrote for the Deseret News.
“(I) think that Disney is very respectful of what this is, and right from the beginning we talked about the fragility of this form of storytelling. Because it’s something that means so much to fans that you can’t turn this into some kind of factory approach. You can’t even do what Marvel does, necessarily, where you pick characters and build new franchises around those characters. This needs to evolve differently.”