Paul Bettany adds another crime boss to the 'Star Wars' universe in 'Solo'

Dryden Vos is a crime boss, and also the name of Paul Bettany's character in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

He didn't pop up in the movie's Super Bowl tease, or in the first full trailer that followed a day later. But we now know what his character is called, by way of a Solo cover story in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Bettany playing a Star Wars crime boss fits with what he's previously said about the movie. He told Total Film last April (via The Playlist) that Solo is a "gangster movie" and Han's story is a "caper." We learn in the new EW story that the monorail thing glimpsed in the first trailer — called a Conveyex — contains something valuable that Han is sent to swipe. Read more...