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Insiders tell Fox News that the movie veteran has signed on for the next movie in the beloved sci-fi franchise, but it is not known whether or not he'll be a leading man.

Ford's co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher have also reportedly agreed to return as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia in the forthcoming J.J. Abrams-directed film - the first since Disney bought the Star Wars franchise from Lucasfilm in October (12) for more than $4 billion.

Star Wars: Episode VII is currently being written by Oscar winner Michael Arndt and is set for release in 2015.

 

I hope they go with the stories about the children of Leia and Han.  All of you who laughed at my idea of Chewbacca swinging through the trees while carry babies in some Wookie baby bjorn but it could happen. The stories below seems a little too Solo-centric for the next film but some of the plot elements might transfer, especially the next generation of Solos and the death of Chewbacca. That would have a powerful impact on audiences and JJ Abrams has shown he is not afraid of killing off popular characters or planets in his movies.

 

Solo plays a central role in several Star Wars stories set after Return of the Jedi. In The Courtship of Princess Leia (1995), he resigns his commission to pursue Leia, whom he eventually marries. Solo and Leia have three children: twins Jaina and Jacen and son Anakin. Chewbacca dies saving Anakin's life in Vector Prime (1999), sending Solo into a deep depression. In Star by Star (2001), Anakin dies as well, compounding Solo's despair. At the end of the series, however, Solo accepts the deaths of his son and his best friend, and reconciles with his family.

In the Legacy of the Force series, Jacen Solo becomes a Sith lord named Darth Caedus and plunges the galaxy into a bloody civil war. Han Solo disowns Jacen, but is still devastated by each new outrage his son commits. He and Leia adopt Jacen's daughter, Allana, after Jacen's death in the novel Invincible.