Yahoo News Here's how that Last Jedi Easter egg fits in to Solo
Warning: Contains MAJOR spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story
In The Last Jedi there's a moment when Luke boards the Millennium Falcon and takes the pair of golden dice hanging in the cockpit as a memento of his fallen friend Han. Later Luke hands these dice to Leia via his 'force illusion' – they weren't actually real, we discover, but they were a symbol and reminder.
As was revealed in an early trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story, these dice are back – but how do they fit in and what's the significance?
Well, these dice actually first appeared in A New Hope, hanging in the cockpit of the Falcon – they weren't made much of a focus and were probably just a throwaway gag – and they don't appear in The Empire Strikes Back or in Return of the Jedi.
JJ Abrams had intended to bring the dice back in The Force Awakens. He had them redesigned (the original ones just had 1-6 pips like a normal die) and shot a scene involving the dice, but the scene was cut. Rian Johnson then decided to include the dice, which would have been a callback to Episode VII but in the end were not. This also led people to speculate that the dice would crop up in Solo. Which they do.
The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary reckons the dice were used in the 'Corellian Spike' version of the game of sabacc where Han won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian.
Solo contradicts this though. Han already has the dice when he meets Lando and the game of sabacc isn't dice-based, it's card-based. We don't actually see where he got them but they're establish early on as his lucky charm. He hangs them on the M-68 Landspeeder he uses at the beginning to escape from the "foul Lady Proxima". Later he gives them to Qi'ra before they are separated. When the two are reunited after three years she hands them to Han for luck (when she's pretending Han and Chewie are her slaves to trade).
The dice are more than a symbol of luck for Han then but also a reminder of his first love, which presumably isn't going to end well given the fact that we know Han doesn't end up with Qi'ra – as well as the decision she makes at the end of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Solo: A Star Wars Story is released on May 24 in the UK and on May 25 in the US. Book tickets here.
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