Star Wars spin-offs put on hold due to disappointing Solo returns.

[Darth Wedgius]

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I'm not sure how Vader is actually eating the ice cream.

[TGLS]

He's force-licking the ice cream.

[Draco Dracul]

Personally, I think this is a good thing. Going forward they should stick to releasing a single Star Wars film every 2-3 years and leave any kind of expansions to TV projects where they can build more depth to them.

Yeah, Solo wasn't that badly received by people who saw it, it's just that most people didn't care enough to go see it. Solo likely wasn't the cause of this problem, it just happened to be the first major symptom of it.

Solo also didn't have many people that loved it either. I didn't see it because I put it off because I'd heard was a middle of the road film and by the time I figured I wanted to see it, it had already left the theater near me.

I'm also facing Episode IX with trepidation because A) I don't think there is any way JJ can make a film as good as TLJ, and B) I fear that in addition to his normal weaknesses, it's going to be a film that treats the audience like idiots because people complained about TLJ not treating them like idiots.

[MrL1992]

Lucasfilm have been denying these rumours and really why should they necessarily stop after one bump in the road? Their last spin-off, 'Rogue One' crossed a billion. I'd wait for the next one to see if this is an actual trend or just the circumstances surrounding this film (the release date, the small window after the last film, the inflated costs, this particular film's concept etc).

This project had a lot of trepidation surrounding it long before the reshoots, long before fans starting biting each others heads off over Episode VIII. I remember talking to more non-fans and casual movie-goes about Solo and they were confused: "didn't they just release one"? Ther he's a lot to unpack is what I'm saying.

Pity too as I liked it fine. Granted it ranks only 8th on my SW film ranking, above Episodes II & I (thoughts are the only 'bad' ones to me) though I need to give it and Rogue One a re-watch.

[Quixotica]

Lucasfilm have been denying these rumours and really why should they necessarily stop after one bump in the road? Their last spin-off, 'Rogue One' crossed a billion. I'd wait for the next one to see if this is an actual trend or just the circumstances surrounding this film (the release date, the small window after the last film, the inflated costs, this particular film's concept etc).

This project had a lot of trepidation surrounding it long before the reshoots, long before fans starting biting each others heads off over Episode VIII. I remember talking to more non-fans and casual movie-goes about Solo and they were confused: "didn't they just release one"? Ther he's a lot to unpack is what I'm saying.

Pity too as I liked it fine. Granted it ranks only 8th on my SW film ranking, above Episodes II & I (thoughts are the only 'bad' ones to me) though I need to give it and Rogue One a re-watch.

While Solo will ultimately lose them money, I feel they expected that might happen. This film made a good chunk of change in spite of the lack of enthusiasm that has plagued the project from the start and all the negative press from the dumpster fire of a production it went through. Had it not been necessary to re-shoot something like 80% of the film, this movie would have been profitable. It wasn't going to make a billion, I don't think it was ever going to do that, but it would have made a nice little chunk of change without the massive expense of the re-shoots.

I feel like the higher ups anticipated that a loss was very likely when they made the decision to authorize that expense in the first place. Moreover, in spite of all it's problems behind the scenes Solo actually turned out to be a pretty solid film, which to me is a remarkable accomplishment all things considered. Lucasfilm (and Disney by extension) are not generally reactionary entities. I don't really buy that they are delaying anything. They might be having discussions internally regarding certain parts of their plans, but I fully believe anything they already had greenlit is still greenlit.

[MrL1992]

Lucasfilm have been denying these rumours and really why should they necessarily stop after one bump in the road? Their last spin-off, 'Rogue One' crossed a billion. I'd wait for the next one to see if this is an actual trend or just the circumstances surrounding this film (the release date, the small window after the last film, the inflated costs, this particular film's concept etc).

This project had a lot of trepidation surrounding it long before the reshoots, long before fans starting biting each others heads off over Episode VIII. I remember talking to more non-fans and casual movie-goes about Solo and they were confused: "didn't they just release one"? Ther he's a lot to unpack is what I'm saying.

Pity too as I liked it fine. Granted it ranks only 8th on my SW film ranking, above Episodes II & I (thoughts are the only 'bad' ones to me) though I need to give it and Rogue One a re-watch.

While Solo will ultimately lose them money, I feel they expected that might happen. This film made a good chunk of change in spite of the lack of enthusiasm that has plagued the project from the start and all the negative press from the dumpster fire of a production it went through. Had it not been necessary to re-shoot something like 80% of the film, this movie would have been profitable. It wasn't going to make a billion, I don't think it was ever going to do that, but it would have made a nice little chunk of change without the massive expense of the re-shoots.

I feel like the higher ups anticipated that a loss was very likely when they made the decision to authorize that expense in the first place. Moreover, in spite of all it's problems behind the scenes Solo actually turned out to be a pretty solid film, which to me is a remarkable accomplishment all things considered. Lucasfilm (and Disney by extension) are not generally reactionary entities. I don't really buy that they are delaying anything. They might be having discussions internally regarding certain parts of their plans, but I fully believe anything they already had greenlit is still greenlit.

The next project is said to ne a Boba Fett movie with the director of 'Logan'. I wouldn't have been super excited over that announcement in isolation but the pairing with that director does raise my enthusiasm. The character the advantage of not having a massive amount of backstory in-film plus him being a primarily masked character means you don't have ti deal with the stigma of recasting (if you believe that's a real problem). I think they're learning how much audiences are interested in single-character focused spin-offs. Stories of a young Han Solo may have been better suited to TV.