The Cricket's Daily 3: The new Han Solo

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Here's what's being talked about in pop culture:

• Meet your new Han Solo: Actor Alden Ehrenreich, a scene-stealer in the Coen brothers' "Hail, Caesar!," will play the young Corellian pilot and smuggler in a standalone movie due out in 2018. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• The Lycra is gone in the new Power Rangers suits. [Entertainment Weekly]

• Seth Rogen acknowledged that some of the jokes in his 2006 movie "Superbad" were "bordering on blatantly homophobic," and that he wouldn't write jokes like that now. [The Huffington Post]