How Solo: A Star Wars Story Might Subtly Call Back To Empire Strikes Back

For those who haven't watched The Empire Strikes Back in a while and need a refresher, after Han, Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO were unable to make the jump to lightspeed after fleeing Hoth, Han was forced to evade from the Imperial forces on their tail. They temporarily found some peace and quiet when they landed the Millennium Falcon inside one of the caverns in a giant asteroid. Or at least where they thought they'd landed. It turns out they had actually flown into a gigantic space slug, officially known as an exogorth, and it was only when Han started shooting down mynocks that Han realized where they really were. Not wasting any time, Han got everyone back on board and flew out of the belly of the beast before it closed its mouth and ate them for good. Cut back to today's Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer, and you'll see that the younger Han (joined by Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian and Qi'Ra) is forced to maneuver around a similarly-large creature while avoiding Imperial entanglements.