Glover to reach for the ‘Star Wars’

Actor and singer Donald Glover will be playing Lando Calrissian in the young Han Solo spin-off film from the Star Wars universe, Walt Disney Co and Lucasfilm said on Friday.

Glover, 33, creator and lead star of FX’s new dramedy Atlanta, will play the role made famous by Billy Dee Williams in the original Star Wars

films, 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back and 1983’s Return of the Jedi.

The still-untitled film, scheduled for release in May 2018, will see Calrissian “in his formative years as a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxy’s underworld”, Lucasfilm said in a statement on Starwars.com.

Glover will join rising star Alden Ehrenreich, who will play the rogue, lovable space-travelling scoundrel Han Solo, made famous by Harrison Ford.