The next actual Star Wars movie, director Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story, stars Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, Emilia Clarke as Qi» ra and Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca. (cbr.com)
That they managed to procure both studio backing and actual stars for a project is not really a surprise; the shock is that this modest middle ground between microbudget and the multiplex is where they've actually belonged since the beginning. (timeout.com)
More importantly, a lot of today's VC world is about getting meetings with the hottest young entrepreneurs, and it's hard to imagine many founders turning down a pitch session with Obama (it's the difference between Silicon Valley star power, and actual star power). (fortune.com)