Posted on 06/20/2018 6:03:42 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Lucasfilm is allegedly changing course on its plans for the future of the Star Wars movie universe. Sources close to the studio tell Collider all Star Wars spinoff films are being put on hold following the mixed critical response and poor box office for Solo: A Star Wars Story. The Han Solo spinoff opened May 25 and has still not crossed the $200 million mark at the U.S. box office as of June 20, making it the lowest grossing title of the Disney-backed Star Wars era.
The future A Star Wars Story films included spinoffs centered around Obi-Wan Kenobi and Boba Fett. News broke last month Logan director James Mangold was boarding the Boba Fett movie as writer and director, while rumors have been swirling for months about the potential Obi-Wan spinoff. The Reader director Stephen Daldry was first reported to be directing the film. Last month, reports surfaced the film would be a prequel to A New Hope and not an Obi-Wan origin story. Collider reports the Obi Wan spinoff was in active development, but now both films are being put on hold in the wake of Solo.
According to Collider, Lucasfilm is shifting its focus to J.J. Abrams Star Wars: Episode IX, which will close out the trilogy led by Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, and a future trilogy to be directed by The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson. Lucasfilm announced last November Johnson was sticking with the universe to create a trilogy centered around new characters and an original, non-Skywalker story.
Damned SJW bitches ruined the “Kenobi” film I actually wanted to see.
Don’t forget the feature-length film of Luke’s time with his aunt and uncle...
They should put the whole franchise on hold. If I want to watch the View, I’ll watch the View.
I was kinda looking forward to the Kenobi one because it was going to have Ewan McGregor in it. But knowing Disney they would have had him hiding out on Tatooine after getting a sex change, reversing it partially only when Luke was grown up enough to no longer need a governess.
Make a film about that cantina band in the first film. Did they get into any epic rap battles with Jabba the Hut’s house band?
I think I was one of the few people that actually enjoyed the Solo movie.
Actually they’re going to do another copy of Episode IV, but this time the Death Star will be an actual star. /s
CGI Ed McMahon will lead the Rebel Alliance in the disco musical: Death Star Search
Put them on hold. They’re sure to be filled with anti-male, anti-white, anti-straight, anti-Christian propaganda for kids anyway.
And now young Skywalker, you will JIVE.
Star Wars could have been its own studio. He could have sold Netflix on a mini-series, for example. Could have created multiple spin-offs under its own studio name.
Remember when Facebook turned down a $1 billion dollar offer from Yahoo and we laughed at them? Well who's laughing now. When you have a product and an eager market for it, you have to hold onto to it.
ENOUGH! Sick and tired of it. Obi Wan kenobi? Seriously. I dont care which high school he went to and which chick he dated. Rian Johnson was the leftist clown who had a major hand in why Last jedi sucked to kingdom come and they want him back?
Finally, Disney is learning the ways of The Force!
There are a lot of neat stories they could tell in that universe, but they decided to infect it with the AIDS of the Star Wars universe ... social justice warriors ... The only entity that can bankrupt the Jedi, Sith, Rebels, Resistance, First Order, Galactic Republic, and all of the other stuff they’ve dreamed up over the years. Nobody wants to be subjected to the SJW’s ultimate weapon ... The LIBERAL ECHO CHAMBER. Many Bothans died to get us this information.
A 4 billion dollar retirement offer?
This is the range of crazy unimaginable and wildly bizarre wealth. Spending the 2% interest only, is $10,000/hour. Trying to spend down the principle is $500,000/hour and he was not poor before. It would be a full time job, ala Brewster’s Millions, a movie about economics.
DK
Who didnt think Disney was going to run this franchise into the ground?
When you make them Gay people will stay away
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