The official Star Wars site released a brief synopsis that reads, "The story focuses on how young Han Solo became the smuggler, thief, and scoundrel whom Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi first encountered in the cantina at Mos Eisley." If you're worried that the movie will revolve around Han as a kid or his very basic origin story, Lawrence Kasdan's chat with The Empire Podcast will hopefully put your fears at ease.
"I think it won't be the thing you're worried about. It will not be like, here is where he was born, and this is how he was raised. I think what it will be is what was he like 10 years earlier, ya know, maybe a little earlier you'll get a glimpse, but . . . what formed the person we meet in the cantina? It is not so much about his specific history. It is about what makes a person like that? He's not full formed in the cantina! Kurosawa once said, 'The heroes are the ones that are still changing, and the villains are locked and petrified into what they are,' and Harrison embodies in Force Awakens someone that's still not settled on who he is."
