Someone addressed it early in the thread, but I don’t think Disney is even capable of making a good Han Solo movie at a fundamental level. It’s not their brand.
I differ. I think Solo is the type of character they have had many iterations of. But also differ in my opinion that Disney is that much in control. I think Lucasfilm knows the characters, world, and stories and Disney is trusting them to work the same magic again. And they have some awesome talent as well as some people who were there when Lucas crafted our beloved OT.
There was that scene with the rathtars and the smugglers confronting Han in TFA. The tone of that scene was much more like the scenes with pirate bad guys in POTC movies. It was not anything like the Star Wars OT.
As for Han’s character, he got softer as the SW movies went on. You can make the argument that the portrayal of Han’s character in TFA wasn’t that far off given that point in his life. And that kind of falls into the Disney sweet spot as far as the tone and style of films that make up their brand.
I’m not sure they can go back to the beginning and produce a credible portrayal of young Han though, given the kind of movies they put out. Disney has made some great movies in the past but they have also “Disneyfied” movies that are out of their natural range of material, and the result is always or almost always very poor.
I can’t argue with you about 1977’s Star Wars, but that scene with the two gangs and the Rathtars was right out of TESB and ROTJ. Sounds like you expect to see that original cockky 1977 Han Solo. If this movie was set in the time of Rebels or Rogue One, that might be something to expect, but my understanding is that it is set earlier than that. Just by the age of the actors, it should be about 10 years before that first film. Plenty of time to have him get so jaded and sour. If this one does well, they can do another one to show how he got that way, but I wouldn’t expect that version of Han Solo.