Two days before its official US release,
Solo: A Star Wars Story will premiere at the Grand Amphitheatre Lumière at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on May 23rd.
Star Wars – Episode II – Attack of the Clones and
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith also had their premieres at Cannes, in 2002 and 2005, respectively.
(Source:
Festival-Cannes.com
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
Solo: A Star Wars Story stars Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson, Joonas Suotamo, Paul Bettany, Warwick Davis, Thandie Newton, Clint Howard