As with last Christmas’s spin-off, Rogue One, the film will be set prior to the 1977 Star Wars film, A New Hope.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the writer and lead actor in acclaimed sitcom Fleabag, is in talks to join the Han Solo movie, provisionally titled Red Cup.
The film, which shoots this spring for release in May 2018, stars Alden Ehrenreich as a younger incarnation of the charming space pilot.
Rogue One has won praise from the critics and taken more than a $1bn (£796m) worldwide.
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