Emilia Clarke has lots of ideas for a Disney+ project centered on her character Qi'ra from 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story.
When The Hollywood Reporter asked Clarke about the possibility of a Disney streaming series featuring Qi'ra, she replied, "[Qi'ra is] the one that has the most unfinished business [from 'Solo']. I really had pages about what her life was and what it would be [after the events of 'Solo']. But I’m afraid I’ve heard nothing of [Disney+] being the case, so maybe I’ll just write it and send it to them. I’ll be like, ‘Hey guys, I’ve got a few ideas.'”
Solo introduces Qi'ra as Han Solo's fellow Corellian orphan and a close friend/romantic interest. However, due to outside forces, the pair go their separate ways at the end of the film, with Qi'ra answering to Maul, the leader of the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate. Around the same time Solo opened theatrically in May 2018, Qi'ra appeared in an episode of the animated web series Star Wars: Forces of Destiny. Titled "Triplecross," the short focuses on Qi'ra's experience as a Crimson Dawn lieutenant while she's being pursued by the bounty hunter IG-88, only to run into Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels veteran Hondo Ohnaka
Qi'ra's story has since continued in War of the Bounty Hunters, a Marvel comic book crossover event that's set between 1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Jedi. "It means so much. It means the absolute world. I know her backstory. I know her history," said Clarke, commenting on the news of Qi'ra's return shortly after War of the Bounty Hunters #1 was published.
While Clarke remains hopeful about Qi'ra appearing in a Disney+ project, she played down the idea of the character showing up in the Lando limited event series announced at Disney's Investor Day in Dec. 2020. “I’ve heard nothing. Absolutely nothing," she claimed, speaking in a podcast interview. "But a ‘Lando’ show makes so much sense; give that man his own show! Yes!"
Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters #1, by Charles Soule, Luke Ross, Neeraj Menon and VC's Travis Lanham, is now on sale from Marvel Comics.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter