Donald Glover has just been officially cast to play a young Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo standalone film, and the internet is pumped. 。

After the news broke Friday, Star Wars 。 fans as well as Glover fans -- we're talking more people than the entire population of Cloud City here -- expressed their profound excitement on Twitter.。

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