We weren’t enthused about seeing a “Star Wars” film where we know the ending.

Did we consider, however, that before Disney stopped future “Star Wars” standalones, that “Solo: A Star Wars Story” was a platform to create a “Star Wars” version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe— to the point that one should ask if the film was made for that very purpose?

There are at least four films that could spin off the movie that was released to the public Thursday evening. The “Star Wars” MCU could have had the backdrop of the “Empire,” especially with Solo set during the time of Imperial reign.

(Spoilers follow.)

Lando Calrissian, played by Donald Glover. Was Lando going to get his own movie as part of a “Star Wars” version of a Marvel Cinematic Universe? (Disney/Lucasfilm via ComicBook.com)

Perhaps those movies would have included a sequel about Han Solo and pal Chewbacca, and features about Darth Maul, the Rebel Alliance and Lando Calrissian.

Before Disney’s decision, the Lando flick seemed certain. “We think the next spinoff will be dedicated to Lando Calrissian,” said Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, the “Star Wars” boss.

Kennedy also said “Of course, there are still many stories to tell about Han and Chewbacca,” IndieWire reported. And Han talks at the end of Solo about a character that sounds an awful lot like Jabba the Hutt, who chases Han in the original “Star Wars” trilogy.

So, despite Kennedy’s walk-back of her Lando comment, you must think a film about the character was in the works. Besides learning from owner Disney in the MCU, how could Kennedy resist running out Donald Glover as the lead man while he plays the most popular of magnetic characters? (Let alone that Glover sounded, wondrously, just like former Lando actor Billy Dee Williams at times.)

That’s beside movies about perhaps the greatest dynamic duo in film.

A film about Darth Maul seemed probable because a villain (Emilia Clarke’s Qi’ra), in a twist, not only survived but became the lead villain by murdering the person to whom she answers (Paul Bettany’s Dryden Voss). Or, she was thought to be, until, in an even bigger twist, Maul (Ray Park/Sam Witwer) was revealed to not only be alive but the ultimate person to whom Qi’ra answers. (Maul appears not long before the credits roll, yet he looms over the entire story element of the film of evil acts.) Maul even speaks of going after Han (Alden Ehrenreich), Chewie (Joonas Suotamo), and Lando, so a sequel to “Solo” involving Maul in some capacity, if not a lead capacity, is rather possible.

(For what it’s worth, Clarke said “I can’t wait,” SYFY WIRE reported when talking about what writers of new “Star Wars” films, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, will do with the characters. Is that a reference to working with them, as she has before, on a film where Maul is the antagonist as suggested by “Solo” screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan’s comments to the Los Angeles Times?)

A film about the Rebel Alliance seemed likely because director Ron Howard, commended as he should be for making such a great movie, went out of his way (on Disney’s orders?) to get in a mention and displaying of people of “rebellion,” as seen in “Solo.”

And, Ehrenreich signed a three-film deal with Lucasfilm.

We could have seen “Solo” being a setup for many more films. That’s because specific people in Benioff and Weiss, the co-creators of the “Game of Thrones,” where Clarke stars, have been tapped to make several more “Star Wars” films. Jon Favreau, the “Iron Man” director, is also slated to tell “Star Wars” stories— for a television show. A Boba Fett standalone and an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie had been announced — the Fett standalone shortly after “Solo” was released.

If the struggle for power that is a thread in “Solo”, climaxing with Qi’ra’s killing of Voss and the Maul reveal, continues in subsequent films, it made wholly perfect sense that Benioff and Weiss were sent to the galaxy far, far away. Besides that they would have been paired with Clarke again to tell more modern mythology, their show is about the struggle for power.

This commentary was originally seen in The Good Men Project.