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Lando Calrissian
Lando Calrissian (/kælˈrɪsiən/; kal-RISS-ee-ən) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is introduced in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as a friend of Han Solo and the administrator of Cloud City on the planet Bespin. Prior to the events of the film, Lando made a career as a gambler, con artist, playboy, mining engineer, and businessman, and was the owner of the Millennium Falcon until losing the ship to Han in a bet. In the film, when Cloud City is threatened by the Galactic Empire, Lando reluctantly betrays Han to Darth Vader, but later helps Han's friends escape from the Empire. In Return of the Jedi (1983), after becoming a general in the Rebel Alliance, Lando helps rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt and leads the attack on the second Death Star.
Lando is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in the original trilogy, as well as the sequel film The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Donald Glover portrays a younger Lando in the standalone film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), which depicts the beginning of his relationship with Han. Lando also appears in novels, comics and video games.
Williams was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Lando in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Glover's performance in Solo was also well received, being hailed as one of the film's highlights. A further film starring Glover as the character, tentatively titled Lando, is currently in development.
When writing The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas planned to introduce a gambler-type character, which developed into Lando Calrissian. Wanting the character to be a foil to the "rough" swashbuckler Han Solo (possibly an old friend), Lucas envisioned Lando as a cool con man with the elegance of James Bond and wit of Star Trek's Spock. He would support the Empire, thinking that he could outsmart the Imperials before coming to see the Rebellion as a more worthy cause.
Lucas thought Lando could superficially look like a normal human but—drawing from the Clone Wars mentioned in the original Star Wars film—be a clone from a ruling clan of others just like him (causing Princess Leia to distrust him). His faction, from one of many planets of clone countries, was probably "partly responsible for the war". Lucas saw the character as a Rudolph Valentino character, "almost too perfect looking" due to his genes being manipulated in the cloning process.
Actor Yaphet Kotto was an early choice for the role, but he chose to appear in the prison drama Brubaker instead. Billy Dee Williams later stated that he built the character around two features he found interesting; the cape and the Armenian name "Calrissian". The original teaser trailer for The Empire Strikes Back introduced the character as Landau Calrissian.
Lando's cane in The Rise of Skywalker (2019) was designed to resemble Cloud City. Though The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker says the Aurebesh text on it reads "Baron Lando Calrissian", the cane was shown at a press junket for The Rise of Skywalker, and fans translated its text as "Landonis Balthazar Calrissian III".
In 2018, The Verge noted that despite Han Solo's first name being written as "Han" and Lucas also pronouncing the name as "Han" (/hæn/) off-screen, within the films most characters, including Luke Skywalker, pronounce it as "Hahn" (/hɑːn/). The Verge also noted how Williams's Lando seems to be the only character to pronounce it as "Han" like Lucas, and that when, in The Empire Strikes Back, Lando is choked by Chewbacca for betraying Han, Lando causes most other characters to shift to "Han". In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Glover decided to deliberately use "Han" instead of "Hahn" in order to honor the character's trait.
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Lando Calrissian
Lando Calrissian (/kælˈrɪsiən/; kal-RISS-ee-ən) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is introduced in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as a friend of Han Solo and the administrator of Cloud City on the planet Bespin. Prior to the events of the film, Lando made a career as a gambler, con artist, playboy, mining engineer, and businessman, and was the owner of the Millennium Falcon until losing the ship to Han in a bet. In the film, when Cloud City is threatened by the Galactic Empire, Lando reluctantly betrays Han to Darth Vader, but later helps Han's friends escape from the Empire. In Return of the Jedi (1983), after becoming a general in the Rebel Alliance, Lando helps rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt and leads the attack on the second Death Star.
Lando is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in the original trilogy, as well as the sequel film The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Donald Glover portrays a younger Lando in the standalone film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), which depicts the beginning of his relationship with Han. Lando also appears in novels, comics and video games.
Williams was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Lando in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Glover's performance in Solo was also well received, being hailed as one of the film's highlights. A further film starring Glover as the character, tentatively titled Lando, is currently in development.
When writing The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas planned to introduce a gambler-type character, which developed into Lando Calrissian. Wanting the character to be a foil to the "rough" swashbuckler Han Solo (possibly an old friend), Lucas envisioned Lando as a cool con man with the elegance of James Bond and wit of Star Trek's Spock. He would support the Empire, thinking that he could outsmart the Imperials before coming to see the Rebellion as a more worthy cause.
Lucas thought Lando could superficially look like a normal human but—drawing from the Clone Wars mentioned in the original Star Wars film—be a clone from a ruling clan of others just like him (causing Princess Leia to distrust him). His faction, from one of many planets of clone countries, was probably "partly responsible for the war". Lucas saw the character as a Rudolph Valentino character, "almost too perfect looking" due to his genes being manipulated in the cloning process.
Actor Yaphet Kotto was an early choice for the role, but he chose to appear in the prison drama Brubaker instead. Billy Dee Williams later stated that he built the character around two features he found interesting; the cape and the Armenian name "Calrissian". The original teaser trailer for The Empire Strikes Back introduced the character as Landau Calrissian.
Lando's cane in The Rise of Skywalker (2019) was designed to resemble Cloud City. Though The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker says the Aurebesh text on it reads "Baron Lando Calrissian", the cane was shown at a press junket for The Rise of Skywalker, and fans translated its text as "Landonis Balthazar Calrissian III".
In 2018, The Verge noted that despite Han Solo's first name being written as "Han" and Lucas also pronouncing the name as "Han" (/hæn/) off-screen, within the films most characters, including Luke Skywalker, pronounce it as "Hahn" (/hɑːn/). The Verge also noted how Williams's Lando seems to be the only character to pronounce it as "Han" like Lucas, and that when, in The Empire Strikes Back, Lando is choked by Chewbacca for betraying Han, Lando causes most other characters to shift to "Han". In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Glover decided to deliberately use "Han" instead of "Hahn" in order to honor the character's trait.