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Kingsman star Taron Egerton has claimed that he turned down the role of a young Han Solo in the Star Wars prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story.The actor revealed that he got as far as donning the character’s famous costume and meeting the character of Chewbacca but ultimately turned it down.Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Ceasar!) was eventually cast as the younger version of Harrison Ford’s buccanneering space smuggler, though the film – and Ehrenreich’s performance – was met with mixed reviews.Egerton discussed the role during an…

Solo: A Star Wars Story is one of those projects from the Mouse House era that fans generally prefer not to think about, even though most of them would admit Alden Ehrenreich did a wonderful job of bringing a younger Han Solo to life on the big screens. But while every viewer indeed breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Ehrenreich’s dedication to the role, Lucasfilm apparently had someone else in mind to play the scruffy looking nerf-herder. The star of The King’s Man recently sat down for a conversation with Josh…

It was no surprise that actor Taron Egerton was able to belt out Elton John for Rocketman. All you had to do was listen to his amazing rendition of Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing” for the animated film Sing and you were sold. But being part of an epic biopic about one of the most legendary performers can help you think about your own career. Egerton reveals how being part of the off-camera elements in Rocketman allowed him to think about a new direction in his acting career.While Taron Egerton went through a number of…

"Black Bird" is now streaming on Apple TV+. The series, which tells the story of a prisoner who tries to uncover a serial killer, stars an ensemble cast including Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi, Greg Kinnear and Ray Liotta. Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero and decorated policeman's son Jimmy Keene (Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend…

Image via 20th Century Studios The Kingsman series had its most recent release with The King’s Man in 2021, another film is coming and now, series star Taron Egerton is saying Kingsman 3 will not be out soon and is instead further back in the pipeline as far as production is concerned. “No, it’s not. That’s not that. Unfortunately, that’s further back in the pipeline. You’ve got to ask Matthew (Vaughn) about that, I’m sure you’ll speak to him before too long, but trying to get information out of that guy is…

Taron Egerton Reveals He’s Met With Marvel’s Kevin Feige, Hoping For A ‘Shot’ To Play Wolverine ( Photo Credit – Instagram; IMDb ) Once Hugh Jackman stepped down as Wolverine – after playing the beloved Logan in nine films from 2000 to 2017, everyone wanted to know who would step in the shoes. While many names were tossed around, it seems like Taron Egerton – the man who played Sir Elton John in Rocketman, is at the front of the race to play the X-Men character. During a recent chat, Egerton once more…

Image: 20th Century StudiosEver since Fox got themselves snatched up Disney and Kevin Feige made it clear that the mutants would be making their way to the MCU eventually, there’s been no shortage of speculation about who’ll be playing the new batch of X-Men. Moreso than Professor X or Magneto, Wolverine is the one that everyone’s got some opinion on. These days, we now know there’s nothing stopping Hugh Jackman from coming back to the role (and the frankly absurd diet needed to maintain it) that launched him into…

Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images With upwards of 30 film and television projects currently in various stages of development, Marvel Studios will no doubt be taking a lot of meetings with a lot of actors that the public never finds out about. That being said, Taron Egerton‘s repeated assertions that he’d love to get involved in the franchise, not to mention his openness to the idea of becoming Hugh Jackman’s successor as Wolverine, has sent the rumor mill into a state of overdrive after the Kingsman and…