WHAT’S THE CONNECTON: HARRY STYLES! STAR WARS! ICONIC FIGURE!

Harry Styles ‘was in contention’ to play Han Solo in Star Wars spin-off

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The singer may have struggled to fit filming around his solo music career launch.

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Echoes are arriving from beyond the visible Universe. … bursts originating much farther away than the most distant detectable galaxy… and a universal cry of ‘Noooooooooooooooo,’ occurred very far away.

Harry Styles was apparently in line to send his career into another galaxy as one of the top choices to play Han Solo in a Star Wars spin-off.

The One Direction star, who has just launched his solo career with new single Sign Of The Times, was reportedly high on the list of names to cast as a younger version of the character made famous by Harrison Ford in one of the many off-shoot projects from the main film franchise.

Harry Styles may have been considered as Han Solo (PA)

An insider at Star Wars film studios Disney said: “Harry was one of the early names in contention when the studio looked at Han Solo. “Even though he had virtually no acting experience, they saw he had huge star potential and would give the solo project enormous publicity. “On initial inquiries Harry had his music career laid out and it would have been almost impossible to lock him down for the job.”

But the assurances of a rebel-held government prevailed and we have Alden Ehrenreich, who has starred in Blue Jasmine and Hail, Caesar!, was cast in the role for the currently untitled Han Solo movie instead.

But don’t fret, teenie-pop fan’s, Harry can be seen on screen in July in Christopher Nolan’s Second World War action thriller Dunkirk, marking his acting debut. Culturedemandsgeeks waits to see if Harry survives the initial credits.