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# Ron Howard's Cryptic Han Solo Movie Clue Is Keeping the Internet Busy With Theories

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## Melissa Locker


Sep 21, 2017 3:19 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Sep 21, 2017 3:19 PM UTC

Ron Howard has _Star Wars_ fans playing an intensely geeky guessing game this week. The director, who took over the project after Phil Lord and Chris Miller stepped down, sent out a tweet from the set of the [Han Solo](http://time.com/4869807/harrison-ford-reboot-franchises-comic-con-san-diego/?iid=sr-link8) movie he is working on with a one-word caption that sent fans into a head-scratching frenzy. The tweet simply read “Spicey” and that is either a nod to a former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer guest appearance in the film, as part of his normalization tour after this week’s Emmy Awards—or perhaps it’s something much more literal.

[https://twitter.com/RealRonHoward/status/910629203665702912](https://twitter.com/RealRonHoward/status/910629203665702912)

If you look closely at the image that Howard sent out, it looks like it could be the entrance to a mine, specifically, a spice mine. To remind anyone who is not fully immersed in [_Star Wars_ lore](http://time.com/4937299/jj-abrams-star-wars-episode-ix/?iid=sr-link1), one of Han Solo’s earliest claims to fame is that his ship the Millennium Falcon made “the Kessel Run in less than 12 Parsecs” with a full load of contraband.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyvFEkJSE4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyvFEkJSE4)

_Star Wars_ fans think that if Howard just tweeted a picture of a spice mine, the film is probably set on Kessel. That means fans may be able to watch the Kessel Run in all its glory, as Han embarks on a career in smuggling and perhaps meeting his life partner, Chewbacca, because the mining on Kessel is done by slaves, [including wookiees](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel).

[https://twitter.com/spugesdu/status/910644415173185537](https://twitter.com/spugesdu/status/910644415173185537)

[https://twitter.com/tomakel/status/910668505057341440](https://twitter.com/tomakel/status/910668505057341440)

[https://twitter.com/Agent47NL/status/910629504065982465](https://twitter.com/Agent47NL/status/910629504065982465)


[https://twitter.com/ToddHertz/status/910657757610741765](https://twitter.com/ToddHertz/status/910657757610741765)

The still untitled [Han Solo](http://time.com/4858421/young-harrison-ford/?iid=sr-link10) Star Wars Story opens May 25, 2018 when questions will be answered.

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