NEW details have been released about the Han Solo Star Wars movie.

Set to hit cinemas in May 2018, filming is underway on the yet-to-be-named movie according to the Star Wars website, which also revealed a few clues about the plot.

“The movie will explore the duo’s [Han Solo and Chewbacca’s] adventures before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, including their early encounters with that other card-playing rogue from a galaxy far, far away, Lando Calrissian.”

Alden Ehrenreich, 27, will play Han Solo after an exhaustive audition process.

“That guy pretty much went through an audition pentathlon,” directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller told USA Today.

“It was like an acting steeplechase.”

“He went against a lot of very strong competitors and was very consistently the guy from minute one.

He was the first person who auditioned out of thousands, and just out of the box, made you believe that someday he’d grow into the character we know.”

Other stars set to appear in the movie include Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and Donald Glover.