​Although the amount of things that can be done with the expanded ​Star Wars universe has even limited ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm, some comic book characters, like Tag and Bink, nearly made their debut on the big screen in Solo: ​A Star Wars Story.





Unfortunately, Tag and Bing's scene was cut from the film, but luckily for us, an excerpt from Solo's novelization on ​StarWars.com confirms it will include the scene!





The scene in the novelization takes place after Han enlists in the Imperial Academy and is forced to confront his superiors, with Tag and Bink appearing.

The scene reads:





" It was flanked by two Imperial guards, Lieutenants Tag Greenley and Bink Otauna. O nce upon a time, Han had attempted to befriend them, but they turned out to be such colossal screwups, Han started to avoid them before they got him or themselves killed. Still, he needed all the friends he could get. He gave them a little wave and a grin. They looked back at him wryly and said nothing."





​This differs from the film, where the storyline goes immediately from Han enlisting in the Imperial Academy to being in battle on Mimban.





According to Comic Book, co-writer Larry Kasdan and first assistant director Toby Hefferman played Tag and Bink. Everyone, including director Ron Howard, was so sure the scene would be in Solo, yet it was still cut.

Kasdan said:





"Ron actually put his wife, Cheryl, who has to be in all his movies because it's his only superstition, into the scene because he's like, 'Well, this is the one thing that isn't coming out. And then it did come out, and Ron had to get Cheryl over to Disney and CGI her into another shot just so we weren't cursed...I think you'll see Tag and Bink is on the Blu-ray, because no way we're putting that on Blu-ray without the Imperial Academy sequence."





Here's hoping we get to see these characters ​come to life in the Blu-ray version of Solo: A Star Wars Story. The Solo novelization is available Sept. 4.