Solo leaked script - Act II

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ACT 2

Scene XIX: Outer space, inside the MILLENIUM FALCON – Outer space time

The Millenium Falcon has been travelling in hyperspace for hours. HAN, with nothing else to do, spends his time inspecting the crisp interior of the freighter. He had never seen such a pristine spaceship: velvet seats, silk pillows, holographic casino games and even a virtual jacuzzi. HAN gets inside and quickly starts falling asleep in the warm environment when a sexy black man suddenly appears, startling him.

LANDO CALRISSIAN (singing)
Stay woke
Lando’s creepin'
He gon' find you
Gon' catch you sleepin’!

HAN SOLO
Hmwem... what?

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Mr. Renowitz! Your highness! I’m LANDO, your humble servant...

LANDO is clearly amused while HAN tries to hide his embarrassment: it was becoming clear to him that there was no need in getting naked to use a virtual jacuzzi.

HAN SOLO
Erm, how long until we get to Caputza?

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Ma man, let’s introduce ourselves! Catch this.

LANDO throws a funny looking package to HAN, which falls into the virtual water. HAN rescues it.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
I’m LANDO, I’m a smuggler, also a gambler and full time ladies man.
You do as I say and you are going to have some fun
while staying on the FALCON.

HAN regains his wits and tries to get the upper hand.

HAN SOLO
I thought you were my taxi driver. Will you lend me your cape so I can dry myself?
LANDO feigns being offended.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
You call this a taxi? This is the fastest ship in the galaxy, “Mr. Renowitz”.

The back-and-forth continues for a few minutes. Although bitingly sarcastic, the two men seem to get along, admiring each other’s arrogance and strong sense of self-worth.

HAN SOLO
So, what’s the plan? Why haven’t we reached JABBA yet?

LANDO CALRISSIAN
I’m not going to be your babysitter, that’s for sure.
The fat slob can wait, we will make some real money in the meantime.



Scene XX: Multiple places - Mainly evenings

MONTAGE SEQUENCE (duration 3:30):

Scenes of HAN and LANDO making money from smuggling, spending the money on ladies and gambling, making more money, spending more money. The montage ends with LANDO and HAN parting ways in a friendly fashion.

[Musical supervisor: try to get the rights for a Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes version of “Push It to the Limit” to use as soundtrack.]

(end of excerpt)

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Scene XXII: CAPTUZA, Hangar - Morning

HAN enters JABBA’s office, clearly frustrated.

HAN SOLO
JABBA, this job isn’t cutting it for me.
I’m tired of driving space trucks to get a buck and a half.

JABBA TIURE (translated by C2M8)
HAN, tiny HANNY! Know wes been losing clients.
But run a fair business we are run run!

HAN SOLO
Why don’t you just give me an interstellar
spaceship so that I can run my own business?

JABBA TIURE
Oh HANNY boy! Things come free not.

Cut to LANDO arriving at CAPUTZA and parking the Millenium Falcon. HAN comes out of Jabba’s office and they meet.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Han!

HAN SOLO
Hey Lando.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
How are you, loser?

HAN SOLO
I need to get out of here. Can I go with you?

LANDO CALRISSIAN
No can do, my man. I’m a space entrepreneur now.
I’m leaving soon for Corellia to sell a startup.

HAN SOLO
Come on, I don’t have any money and I can’t make any on this shithole.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Come have a drink, let’s talk in private.

Scene XXIII: CAPUTZA, bar - Noon

HAN SOLO
So, what do you have for me?

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Now that I’m a respected businessman I can’t go around selling... you know, the good stuff. But you’ve been delivering packages for JABBA, right?

HAN SOLO
I use one of his space trucks. Lots of storage capacity.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
I’m sure you’ll have some free space for what I’m giving you then.
We’ll split the profits 40-60. I give you the goods, you deliver them.
They won’t be able to trace them back on me, so it’s your problem if you get caught.

HAN SOLO
50-50 and we have a deal.

HAN and LANDO shake hands.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
They’ll arrive every two weeks by this hour.
Someone will get them to you at the alley behind the hangar.

(end of excerpt)

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Scene XXV: CAPTUZA, nightclub - Late night

HAN is on the dance floor. The nightclub is full of people. “Get Down Saturday Night is playing” [need the rights! The dance choreography should be the same as in “Ex Machina”] He is approached by a foxy lady who starts dancing with him. They yell at each other so they can be heard through the noise.

FOXY LADY
I’ve seen you before!

The music reaches the groviest part, and the fox busts some serious moves.

HAN SOLO
Oh yeah? Maybe yesterday? Sorry if I don’t remember you.

HAN does his best to keep up, and succeeds.

HAN SOLO
I was drunk then too.

FOXY LADY
It was in Corellia I think.

HAN SOLO
I’ve never been there.

They dance for a bit longer. The scene cuts and they’re in HAN’s bed. HAN looks exhausted and clearly still drunk.

HAN SOLO
Oh, damn… I love you.

FOXY LADY
I know.

HAN SOLO
Do you… do you think I’ll remember ... sorry- remember you, tomorrow?

FOXY LADY
Maybe some words will stay on your mind, darling.

The foxy lady and HAN exchange a drunk smile and they try to resume action, but HAN passes out. The foxy lady has some fun on her own*.

*off-camera depending on the MPAA.


Scene XXVI: CAPTUZA, Jabba’s office - Morning

HAN arrives at JABBA’s place, clearly hungover. JABBA doesn’t seem like his usual jovial self.

JABBA TIURE (translated by C2M8)
HANNY! Meesa in huge big trouble! GREEDO was inspectings the truckmobiles like GREEDY does and found some drugs on yousa trucky! For sure thisa means evils is planting druggies to destroy meesa, yousa, everybudsa! Space polices must learn this!

HAN SOLO
Shit, I knew GREEDO would be trouble... Calm down, the drugs are mine.

JABBA TIURE
Yousas, HANNY?! Yousas?!?

HAN SOLO
Look, JABBA, we can make big money.
I’m doing this for us, big fella, you can trust me.

JABBA TIURE
Meesa trusts yousa, HANNY! Long time meesa trusts, HANNY know.
But this… this bad doodoo! Business smells like tauntaun.

HAN SOLO
Look, I know your operation is having money problems. I mean, my
parents were your biggest clients...

JABBA TIURE
We can runs honest enterprises! Weesa large, weesa float!
No need to feed druggies!

HAN SOLO
JABBA, my products are harmless. I take them myself from time to time.
Are you saying I’m a junkie?
They’re safe, people want them and we can make huge profits
by providing a needed service. You just need to give me more space trucks,
I can handle the rest. Think of how many sponsorship programs you can start
to help poor orphans, like you did with that GREEDO bastard.

JABBA TIURE
... in truthful I have not give money to orphans long time because so little money meesa has now... Maybes weesa could help mores if more moneys!

HAN SOLO
You’re a genius, JABBA.

(end of excerpt)

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Scene XXIX: Shady planet, street and spacetruck - Late night

After leaving the brothel, we see HAN sweating profusely, stopping to catch his breath. He looks sick. He enters his space truck and calls JABBA.

HAN SOLO
Everything in order.

He hangs up. After a brief moment of introspection he turns C2M8 on.

HAN SOLO
It’s been so long, I’m starting to forget their faces.

C2M8
Master HAN! How good to see you!
Who are you talking about?

HAN SOLO
I killed them. The blaster... It couldn’t have been the gas...
Could it?...

C2M8
I estimate that the chances of a blaster explosion leading to the death of your parents to be significantly lower than that of the gas. But according to my calculations the odds are above zero.

HAN SOLO
Odds... Odds... Is she proud? I’m doing the best I can...
I’m following my own path. But it’s so hard, so lonely.

HAN SOLO looks behind his seat and opens one of the hidden spice containers, starts preparing a portion for consumption. Nothing in his behavior seems amateurish.

(end of excerpt)

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Scene XXXI: MILLENIUM FALCON, in the usual CAPUTZA hangar - Afternoon

HAN and LANDO are playing chess aboard the Falcon.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Check mate. Again. You’re as bad on the table
as you are on the bed, or so they say!

HAN SOLO
Alright, Calrissian. Talk is cheap. Are you for real?
Do you wanna play for some credits? But let’s play a gambler’s game, go get your sabacc cards.

LANDO CALRISSIAN smiles and gets up. His prized sabacc deck is the exclusive Palpatine’s sponsored collector's edition, with Darth Revan prints and random Sith facts on the back of the cards.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
You know I never back down, Solo.

They play for hours, but finally HAN is stripped to his boxer shorts.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
I’m not interested in having you take those off too.
The game is over, I have to handle some business anyway.

HAN SOLO
What about a last game? With high stakes.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Proceed?

HAN SOLO
High stakes. Pure luck. A dice throw game.
For this spaceship.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Ah, and what’s in it for me?

HAN SOLO
90% of our trade deal.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Interesting, what do you need this ship for?

HAN SOLO
I’ll use it for smuggling.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
What?! This ship is not for smuggling!
It’s the closest thing to a dougle g pimpmobile you’ll find in your lifetime!

HAN SOLO
It’s fast, the fastest. I’ll double my profit.

They each get their favorite pair of D20 dice. LANDO rolls an 18.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
I know I’ll be officially your boss and superior, but we can still be friends after this. I have many poor friends.

HAN starts sweating like a wampa on vacations in Caputza.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
HAN, have you been taking the spices again?
You look sick.

HAN cleans the sweat of his forehead, focuses on the die, takes his time... LANDO gets distracted, looks around and catches a glimpse of his good looks on a close-by mirror [RETROFITTING NOTICE: there should be several mirrors, some of them full-body, throughout LANDO CALRISSIAN’s Millenium Falcon]

LANDO CALRISSIAN
Damn! I’m so classically handsome!

When he looks at the table he sees a die showing 19 at the top.

HAN SOLO
I win, hand me the keys.

LANDO CALRISSIAN
I didn’t see you roll the die!

HAN SOLO
Whose fault is that, punk?

LANDO CALRISSIAN watches as the MILLENIUM FALCON rises in the skies of Captuza. His visage shows a certain mix between curiosity to see where HAN will take such majestic spaceship next and also worry and apprehension over his close-friend’s well-being. HAN SOLO is now the owner of the fastest spaceship in the galaxy and has all the right contacts to turn a big profit, fast. But, although his morals were always sketchy, he seems to be allowing himself to be swallowed in new, ever darkening depths.

END OF ACT 2