Should Solo's Enfys Nest Get Her Own Live-action Tv Series On The Disney Streaming Service?

'Solo' Breakout Has Obscure Roots in 'Star Wars' Comics

'Solo: A Star Wars Story' features Enfys Nest and the Cloud Riders, merely one of many callbacks to the mythology.

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[This story contains spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story.]

At that place's a certain element of symmetry at play in Solo: A Star Wars Story. In addition to the obvious Easter eggs in the moving-picture show — from finally showing oft-mentioned moments of Han Solo's mythology, whether it's the Kessel Run or Han winning the Millennium Falcon from Lando, to working in the Falcon die given screen time in last yr's Star Wars: The Last Jedi — in that location'southward a more than subtle nod to the character's past in the motion-picture show: the appearance of the villains from the very first solo Han Solo story ever told.

As perhaps might be expected, the first storyline of Marvel's original Star Wars that followed the adaptation of the original motion picture was a little rough around the edges. Indeed, the four-part story — which ran from October 1977's seventh issue through January 1978'due south tenth — is, in many ways, i that would exist every bit primed for Lucasfilm to effort to forget as the infamous Holiday Special. While the plot is solid, with Han Solo and Chewbacca essentially acting out a Star Wars take on The Magnificent Seven, the execution is somewhat…unusual, shall nosotros say.

For ane affair, there'south the portrayal of Solo himself, who is far more eager to be a hero than later on movies would establish ("Later all that battle activeness, I'd give my star-spurs to stay in that location and assistance Princess Leia regroup the Rebels," he says at one bespeak), although that's easily explained abroad by how early in the franchise's existence the story was published. Less understandable are the comrades Solo gathers together to defend the alien village. Fifty-fifty if you can overlook the human-size green rabbit called Jaxxon, in that location's besides the aged Jedi Knight chosen, with most breathtaking shamelessness, Don-Wan Kihotay. Well…it's not a million miles away from Obi-Wan Kenobi, I guess.

Information technology is, still, who Don-Wan, Han and Jax are defending the hamlet from that connects the 1977 comic volume to the new movie. Because the villains of the piece are the Cloud-Riders…which just and then happens to exist the same name equally the group Enfys Nest (Erin Kellyman) flies with in Solo.

The name is just about all the two groups have in common, still. For i thing, Enfys Nest is nowhere to be plant in the Deject-Riders' comic book appearances, where they're instead led by a pirate called Serji-X Arrogantus (once again with the unsubtle names). For another, the comic book Riders are both more depression-key in their ambitions, preferring to stay on the planet Aduba-3 rather than the cinematic group that travels effectually the galaxy, and more evil; whereas Solo reveals that the Riders are, if non the good guys, then certainly non the true villains of the slice, the original have on the Cloud-Riders are cartoonishly evil. Fifty-fifty the design of their flying bikes are unlike.

Despite this, Solo screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan has confirmed that the movie Cloud-Riders are, indeed, based on the comic book characters:

Not a coincidence at all. In the earliest drafts of the script Enfys Marauders attacked the Conveyex on Bantha Ii skiffs. When Chris & Phil decided they wanted to do swoop bikes instead, we found the Cloud Riders on Wookieepedia, from in a higher place Marvel comic, and it STUCK.

— Jon Kasdan (@JonKasdan) May thirteen, 2018

Enfys & gang have been a part of all the drafts. It was Chris and Phil who latched onto the idea of calling them Cloud Riders from the comics. They wanted to riff on the idea of a Star Wars biker gang, but I remember (and am grateful) they were ever determined to make it their own

— Jon Kasdan (@JonKasdan) May 28, 2018

Enfys Nest and friends should be glad they're not simply a straight translation of the comic book originals; if that was the example, the movie wouldn't have gone likewise well for them — Serji-X and his criminal compatriots met an unfortunate end when their fight with Han and friends was interrupted by a behemothic monster who literally stomped the villains to death. Perhaps there's a lesson in at that place about the value of doing the correct thing. Sure, Enfys Nest and the cinematic Cloud Riders (no hyphen for them) didn't cease the film in the best of places — simply at least they weren't squashed to death.

With a cut this deep, perhaps Solo should be considered the nigh fan service-y of all Star Wars movies to date — and a challenge to hereafter filmmakers. First 1 to innovate Don-Wan Kihotay in canon wins a whole new level of appreciation.

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