The newly released Solo: A Star Wars Story has a Bruce Springsteen twist. The father-and-son screenwriting team of Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan told Ultimate Classic Rock that the inspiration for the relationship between the young Solo and his parents came from reading Bruce Springsteen’s 2016 autobiography, Born To Run.
The younger Kasdan said, “We had both read Springsteen’s biography right around when we were working on it. And we were touched by his relationship with his father. And we thought that it was a different kind of attitude to have about a parent than we’ve seen in Star Wars. And we thought that would be cool.”
In his book, Springsteen wrote in detail about the complex relationship and said he found it difficult to bond with his father when he was young, but later mended that. The Kasdans put that conflict into Solo’s history, including a moment where he recalls sitting in a starship that he built.
