'Solo: A Star Wars Story' to premiere at Cannes Film Festival

Los Angeles, April 6 "Solo: A Star Wars Story" will reportedly premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month.

The sci-fi tentpole will screen 10 days before its official May 25 release, reports deadline.com.

Alden Ehrenreich stars as a young Han Solo and Donald Glover plays fellow smuggler Lando Calrissian.

The project is directed by Ron Howard.

"Solo: A Star Wars Story" tells the story of how Han Solo met his future copilot Chewbacca before the events in the original 1977 "Star Wars".

The film is the second anthology film after 2016's "Rogue One".

The Cannes festival will be held from May 8 to May 19.