I'd do a Han Solo movie that feels like old adventures à la Indiana Jones with laser guns. Let him be the courageous but selfish mercenarie he was in the beginning. I don't want to know about where he's born or if he's a orphan or whatever. He should also already have is Millenium Falcon. Don't put Lando in this. Just Han and Chewie is enough.

The problem with Disney is we already know how they will make these new Starwars and spin offs, we saw their handy work with the flop John Carter and I guarantee they will use the same awful CGI tricks and bland green screen film making, wooden acting and emotionless scenes.
I think true fans should send messages to Disney asking them to try and bring back the original creators and collaborates of the old films. (the ones that are still alive)
So if you care about Starwars being made right and not like the prequels show your support and send a message to Disney and the old Starwars team to join forces and to get it right.

And, as you've stated, the prequels did so much nodding to the OT they ignored telling compelling stories that stand as their own films. All these spin offs will wink at the wrong things and tell uninspired stories about characters we will no longer care about. Leave Han alone, you already tainted Boba Fett and Yoda.

Unless you do Performance Capture Star Wars films that would allow younger body doubles to lend a hand with the physicality of the performance, but allow Ford to perform and voice a younger Han Solo. Don't make them Photorealistic, make them in the vein of Tintin and I'll be interested in showing up. Live action films that recast a younger Solo and I'm out.

Disney has managed to make some good films with the franchises it's acquired, BUT it's also made more than a handful of stinkers. I think they're well aware of George's pit falls, but hopefully they don't make entirely new ones in their attempts to avoid the others. Trying to treat the Star Wars universe like the Marvel universe and fill in every character and backstory is not the way to do this. The key to revitalizing the Star Wars franchise is to keep it moving forward. Show us things we HAVEN'T ALREADY SEEN OR HEARD ABOUT! Re-inject the mystery and mythos. If they really want to do more films outside of 7,8, and 9 with the original characters, listen to the fans, recast and focus on some of the expanded universe that would make great cinema, a la The Thrawn Trilogy. Hell, Death Troopers would make an excellent Han and Chewie stand alone film: Zombies in the Star Wars galaxy? With smugglers? Trapped on a prison barge? Hell yes!

Unfortunately, as a fan I know none of my wishes will ever be brought to fruition. Just like George, Disney will make these films whether we like it or not and they will ALWAYS find an audience. So, since they are making all these stand alone origin stories, the best advice they can take is laid out in this article, you can show me some cutesy fanboy crap, but focus on a singular adventure not an epic story, and MAKE IT FUN AGAIN! Every since I saw it, I've said that if Lucas would have fleshed out Episode 3 amongst 3 movies and made that the trilogy, allowing the drama to unfold instead of forcing it (and of course finding better actors), the prequels could have been pretty damn good. We didn't need to see all the shit with the Trade Federation and the Senate, let alone an origin story, just a singular event or arc would have been SO much more impressive. If Disney can adopt that mindset and find a way to re-inject that mystery and mythos that made the original Star Wars trilogy so exciting, THEN I'd see a young Han Solo movie . . . and practically anything else they throw at me, no matter how ridiculous.

In ten years, Star Wars fans are going to be longing for the prequels after Disney gets through shitting it up.