The Hollywood Reporter received confirmation this week that Billy Dee Williams is returning as Lando Calrissian for Star Wars: Episode IX. Williams last played the suave gambler in Return of the Jedi, while Donald Glover portrayed a younger version of the character in this year’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. Based on the latest films, fans are predicting that he will certainly be killed off, and probably in an uninspiring way.



Chatter about Williams joining the production, which is set to begin later this summer, increased in recent days when the actor bowed out of an upcoming sci-fi and pop culture convention citing a conflict with a movie schedule. Sources confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Williams will indeed be returning to the Star Wars film franchise for the first time since 1983’s Return of the Jedi. The Lando Calrissian character made his suave debut in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back.

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