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Lucasfilm "Licking Their Wounds" But Not Halting 'Star Wars' Development
Mild spoilers in TFA about certain characters that appear in the film.
Disney and Lucasfilm are reassessing their plans for future Star Wars movies in the wake of the disappointing performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, which is having to fight to make much more than $350 million worldwide, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. "They haven't slowed down development," says a source with knowledge of Lucasfilm's thinking, "but they are licking their wounds."
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and her team are regrouping and figuring out the direction of the movies beyond the final installment of the main series of films, Star Wars: Episode IX, which is scheduled for release Dec. 20, 2019. "It doesn't mean those spinoffs don't happen," says another insider of Solo's underperformance globally. "It just means they're trying to figure out how to make, and market, them differently."
[...] "They were developing anything and everything," says another exec. "It was a case of them stuffing so much sausage and not try to break the casing."
Meanwhile, Han Solo's blaster was sold for over 0.1% of the film's gross.
Also at Collider, Space.com, and Forbes (archive).
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:02PM (13 children)
The main reason the first movie was good was because of the aggressive editing job that was done on the film (by people who weren't George Lucas).
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(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:12PM (1 child)
A big part of why the first movie was so well received was its competition in the theaters for the previous 5 years.
A big part of why the series endured was the second movie, Empire really was an impressive sequel. It has been somewhat milking it ever since, but still an entertaining ride.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @02:08PM
Don't forget John Williams and the #1 ranked film score of all time.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:14PM (7 children)
But was called Martha Lucas and has been erased from Star Wars history. [news.com.au]
(Score: 4, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday June 25 2018, @12:48AM (6 children)
Well, she is named Marcia Lcuas [wikipedia.org], and she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Star Wars, so I'd hardly say she's been "erased from Star Wars history."
But yes, her contributions have perhaps been underappreciated.
(Score: 3, Funny) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday June 25 2018, @12:49AM (4 children)
[Lucas, obviously... that's what I get for trying to make a correction.]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 25 2018, @12:57AM (3 children)
So thoroughly erased from history, nobody can get her name right.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @01:11AM (1 child)
For future reference, it's Martha Lcuas.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 25 2018, @05:03PM
The world has decided to forget any movie in which Martha is a significant plot contributor.
(Score: 4, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 25 2018, @02:19AM
These are not the Lucases you are looking for...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @09:14PM
"Marcia Marcia Marcia!"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:45PM (1 child)
I heard one of the main editors was George's wife who he later fired after their divorce.
Then the films went to shit.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @02:23PM
It's when they ran out of movies to copy scene by scene from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday June 25 2018, @02:57AM
It is quite an odd situation, the man who gets official credit for the movie may well be the only person on the credits who was truly worse than useless.
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