Report: Donald Glover To Get ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff As Lando Calrissian

Atlanta-born actor Donald Glover can stick another feature into his sizably creative hat. The “Atlanta Fx” star has signed on to play the lead in his own “Star Wars” spinoff as a younger Lando Calrissian.

He was cast to play the role popularized by Billy Dee Williams in this spring’s “Solo” movie.

Report: Donald Glover getting Lando Calrissian spinoff

Glover will get to spread his wings with Calrissian and explore his motivations as well as his back story, which is still not fully explained in “Solo.”

The spin-off was teased by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

“We think that the next spinoff will be dedicated to Lando Calrissian,” Kennedy told Premiere France. “Of course, there are still many stories to tell about Han and Chewbacca but Lando will be next.”

Glover has added a dimension to Calrissian’s character that Billy Dee didn’t have time to explore. Young Lando is pansexual.

“There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s [portrayal of Lando’s] sexuality,” “Solo” co-writer Jonathan Kasdan told the Huffington Post. “I mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it’s time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity ― sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of.”

There are also at least two more movies planned about young Han Solo, played by Alden Ehrenreich. The actor reportedly has a three-picture deal with Lucasfilm.

Movie lovers were introduced to Lando Calrissian in “The Empire Strikes Back” as the administrator of Cloud City, where he seemed to be pre-occupied with staying off the radar of the Empire. As we learn, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker C-3PO and the gang change that.

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