It has been revealed Michael K. Williams completed filming all of his scenes in the young Han Solo spinoff movie prior to Ron Howard taking over for the fired Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Williams had already filmed all of his scenes as a new character to the universe—“a link between Han Solo and Emilia’s character, Kira”—when Lucasfilm suddenly announced in June that it was replacing directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller with Ron Howard.
With this in mind, it makes sense why Lucasfilm barely mentioned Han Solo during their presentation at July’s D23 expo.
The Emmy nominee was set to play a half-human, half-animal hybrid who apparently served as a link between Han and Emilia Clarke’s character, Kira.