And so, Solo: A Star Wars Story is a heist film that just so happens to feature characters with names and locations we recognize. It makes sense, to be not what everything else is, but instead what you need to be sometimes means taking up the mantle of that which will make people feel the urge to venture out to the theater while ultimately delivering something they didn't know they missed seeing on the big screen. In these tangential Star Wars stories Disney has somehow figured out how to not only expand a brand, but simultaneously how to tell what were once mid-range, star-driven vehicles that have more or less become obsolete in the current theatrical landscape of tentpole after tentpole.
