<P> Solo: A Star Wars Story will have its world premiere on May 15, 2018 at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival . The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on May 25, 2018, the 41st anniversary of Star Wars: Episode IV--A New Hope in which Harrison Ford first appeared as Han Solo . Despite the firing of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Lucasfilm has maintained that the film is on schedule for its intended release date . </P> <P> A "sneak peek" TV spot was released during Super Bowl LII on February 4, 2018 . It became the most popular Super Bowl trailer on YouTube with 8 million views . It also had 5.9 million views on Facebook . </P> <P> The first official teaser trailer was released on February 5, 2018 . Graeme McMillan of The Hollywood Reporter criticized the trailer as "dull", and compared it negatively to the look of Rogue One, opining that the visuals "should be the hive of scum and villainy of the Cantina of the very first movie, filled with colorful aliens and things happening all over the place . That busyness, the sense of danger and hustle, feels appropriate for Solo in a way that what's on show in this first trailer simply doesn't ." He also noted that several plot elements presented in the trailer were reminiscent of The Han Solo Trilogy, a series of novels published in 1997 and 1998 . </P> <P> In early March 2018, French artist Hachim Bahous asserted that Disney had plagiarized a series of album covers he designed for Sony Music's label Legacy Recordings in France with character posters for the film . Disney stated they were investigating the alleged plagiarism and that the Solo posters had been produced by an outside vendor . </P>

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