Cantina Talk: This Is Your New Favorite Room on the Millennium Falcon

It’s amazing to consider, but the next Star Wars movie—Solo: A Star Wars Story—is less than three weeks away. (Expect reviews to start popping up on social media in the next couple weeks, and then make sure to hide from the internet as spoilers inevitably follow.) That’s not all that’s happening in a galaxy far, far away, however, with movement starting on J.J. Abrams’ Episode IX and the announcement of an all-new animated television series later this year. Looks like it’ll be life during wartime for a while longer.

The Source: The Resistance’s favorite former stormtrooper, John Boyega

Probability of Accuracy: There’s a level of speculation in here, but we’d still give it a high likelihood of being true.

The Real Deal: After The Last Jedi broke with tradition by beginning a Star Wars movie immediately after the previous movie ended, it looks like Episode IX is going to restore the between-movie time jump, if comments made by John Boyega are anything to go by. "I can’t wait to start shooting the next and final leg of the franchise," he said during a recent press appearance. "The first step is growing out my hair, so you can wait for the trailer to see why." Sure, there’s probably some plot-related reason for the long hair as well—a life spent constantly on the run, following the events of the last movie, perhaps—but at least the opening crawl will have something to write about once more.

The Source: Solo director Ron Howard

Probability of Accuracy: It's from Howard's own lips, so it better be true.

The Real Deal: Ever since Disney acquired Lucasfilm from George Lucas himself, the director has largely been hands-off about the new movies in the franchise. But after Ron Howard, who starred in his film American Graffiti, took over directing duties on Solo he decided to stop by the set. He also had a small piece of advice to offer Howard on a bit of dialogue he was filming. “We were doing a scene and he was trying to stay out of the way, but he did lean over and he said, ‘You know what Han would really do there?’” Howard told Stephen Colbert last week on The Late Show. “I said, ‘What?’ And he told me the joke, he gave me a little joke. And I said [to the cast], ‘Hey, guess what? Here’s what we’re gonna do in the next take.’” Fans won’t know for a couple more weeks, but chances are Lucas’ line made the final cut.

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The Source: A casting notice, noticed by the internet

Probability of Accuracy: The notice itself is legit, but everything else is open to interpretation.

The Real Deal: While almost everything outside of the potential time jump remains a mystery when it comes to the final part of the Skywalker Saga, The Hashtag Show found an interesting casting notice for a new character in the movie. Called Caro—although that name is almost certainly a placeholder—she is "a leader and problem solver, smart with a great sense of humor and a strong will. All this comes to her effortlessly." She also has, apparently, "captivating naturalness and ease to her manner." Lucasfilm is reportedly looking for an "ethnic female," preferably African-American, around 18-26 years old for the role. But will Caro turn out to be on the side of the Resistance or the First Order? All will be revealed in December 2019.

The Source: A promotional hit for Solo

Probability of Accuracy: Look, it’s very accurate that this will make you love Donald Glover all the more.

The Real Deal: As if to prove that Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian is likely going to be the breakout character of Solo: A Star Wars Story, a new promo for the movie let Glover loose on the Millennium Falcon set to show everyone around, and in the process, introduce a previously unseen area to fans.