Star Wars Writer Teases Emilia Clarke’s Future In The Franchise

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You don’t even need to be a Game of Thrones fan to know for which role Emilia Clarke is best known. The loveable English actress gained worldwide recognition thanks to the role of Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO hit fantasy series, for which she was nominated for 4 Primetime Emmy Awards. Apart from the role of Daenerys, Clarke is also known for the movie roles in Terminator Genisys, Me Before You, and Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Emilia Clarke played Qi’ra, a former love interest of Alden Ehrenreich’s titular character. The movie showed us the origin story of Han Solo before the events of A New Hope. Despite the cast which assembled some known names, including Woody Harrelson and Paul Bettany, the movie received mixed reviews from fans and it became the first Star Wars box office bomb, with only $393.2 million grossed against the reported budget of $300 million.

Due to that, it’s not likely that this spin-off will ever get a sequel, and even though we know that Han met Luke Skywalker and the rest of the gang after the events of the spin-off, there are still characters whose fate remains unknown, including Qi’ra. However, the movie’s co-writer Jonathan Kasdan now reveals that he talked with Jon Favreau, the creator of The Mandalorian series, to explore more of Qi’ra’s story.

“I think someday we’re gonna see what happened, and how Qi’ra sort of advanced through the world, through the crime syndicates. I’ve talked to Jon Favreau about it, and he’s a big fan of [Solo] and some of the stuff we built out. And I said, ‘Well, you’re the guy to figure it out.’ I always look to him to keep the story alive and keep it going. Star Wars is going in so many fun directions. And specifically, I saw that trailer for Andor today, and I thought, ‘Well, Enfys Nest is gonna show up somewhere in that show.’ So I’m hopeful that a lot of those people continue the journeys they were on.” — Jonathan Kasdan for ScreenRant

Emilia Clarke is set to join Marvel Cinematic Universe in the upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion. Her role wasn’t specified, but it’s known that Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, and Cobie Smulders will reprise the roles of Nick Fury, Talos, and Maria Hill, respectively.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.