Donald Glover on his Lando Calrissian standalone film: 'It would be like Frasier in Space'

Solo: A Star Wars story isn't even out yet, but Donald Glover is already planning a spin-off for his character Lando Calrissian (played by Billy Dee Williams in the original trilogy). 

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly Radio, Glover said: "I would love to do it again. It’s really fun."

He said that the expanded Star Wars universe was better-suited to off-shoot projects like Solo than the core nonology: "I feel like with the Skywalkers, it’s hard, because it’s almost like the Bible. There’s a story that you have to tell with the lineage of that family. I feel like out here its like, yeah, we’re just like hustlers and gamblers and space pirates, essentially, so you can do a lot more and have a lot more fun."

Whilst a Lando film is not yet in production, Glover does have some ideas as to what he would like to see if it happened: “It would be cool to see, like, Frasier in Space — like, a high-end guy in space. All of these characters are very specific and they have very specific points of view, so it’s always going to be fun to see them traveling around to a planet that is the opposite of what they’re used to…. And all of that seems like it would be fun to write, for sure."

However, the Atlanta and 30 Rock writer said there were some benefits to being given someone else's script: "But it also is nice to not have to write that. It’s also nice to just, you know, show up in a cape and get pointed in the right direction."