‘Star Wars’ Rumor: Aaron Paul playing young Han Solo

This is the rumor, folks. The rumor that ravaged the pipes of the inter-webs this past weekend. Aaron Paul as a young Solo.

The Mary Sue:

Don’t count all your womp rats before they’re bagged, Han. It’s only a rumor!

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we were promised that with the advent of a brand new Star Wars trilogy released every two years from Disney/Lucasfilm, we would also be milked of money for getting several spinoff films, featuring non-central characters or the backstories of main characters, to fill those Star Wars-empty years in between. With The Force Awakens solidly into production, fans across the globe await the reveal of the subject of those announced spinoffs, which at this point could be anything from a Boba Fett solo film to the story of Han Solo’s life before he ran into an old mystic and a farm boy in a Tatooine bar and agreed to take them to Alderaan.

So while we wait, Making Star Wars.net thinks they’ve got a handle on what’s up next, and it involves Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul.

A code name for the production is: Luminac Industrial Goods. They go on to say there’s going to be a really interesting situation at Pinewood Studios: The filming will eventually overlap with some ofStar Wars: Episode VIII. Who are they hearing the film is about? Han Solo. They went on to say the word around the current production at Pinewood is that Aaron Paul is looking to be attached to the first Star Wars spin-off film.

I…I just don’t know. Anyone other than Ford playing Han Solo is anathema to me, and Paul certainly isn’t the guy I would peg to commit this heresy. And I dig the dude. What do you think?