Are Han and him already adventuring together, or will this movie explain how they first met and became that lovable duo?
It’s also important to remember that chronologically, the Han Solo movie trails approximately a decade after Revenge of the Sith, when Chewie and Tarrful helped Yoda escape Kashyyyk during Order 66.
Having Chewbacca appear in the Han Solo movie was to be expected given the relationship between those two scoundrels in the Original Trilogy, but it remains to be seen exactly how the Wookie will fit into the story.
He and his fellow Wookies have been suffering under the Empire’s reign of terror more than most planets, so if this movie is going the ‘how they first met’ route, we’ll presumably see how Han freed Chewbacca from slavery, which is part of the official Star Wars canon.