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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday June 24 2018, @10:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the solo-failure dept.

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: 4, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:37PM (5 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:37PM (#697805) Homepage

    Somewhat meta: but given the poor sense of humor here this passage from the summary actually made me laugh:

    " Meanwhile, Han Solo's blaster was sold for over 0.1% of the film's gross. "

    And now referencing you:

    " Being a Star Wars fan feels a little like being emotional about my local McDonalds. "

    The original trilogy was all a masterpiece, one of the true triumphs of American culture. But when I heard Episode I was coming out, I knew in my 17-18 years of age that it, and everything after it, was going to suck, and suck hard.

    Being a true Star Wars fan is a lot like being a true Metallica fan: everything up to a certain album were masterpieces, but as regular listeners you kinda just pretended that everything after that just doesn't exist. In the case of Metallica fans, the demarcation comes after Justice, or in some cases after The Black album. The Black album was a lot like Episode I, Metallica were becoming worse and less cerebral and had nowhere else to go but down, they were now just in it because they knew they'd make money from it, but the true fans gave it a chance hoping for something better.

    That "Something Better" never happened, and never will. It's too late now.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:59PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:59PM (#697825)

    The original trilogy was all a masterpiece, one of the true triumphs of American culture.

    Lucas was going to direct Apocalypse Now but instead opted to tell a Vietnam parable set in space so we get teddy bears defeating a more powerful enemy. Star Wars captured the mood of the time with Lucas channelling Susan Sontag [wikipedia.org] and Joseph Campbell. [wikipedia.org] Campbell was subsequently to call Lucas the best student he ever had. Star Wars has it's roots in Jungian archetypes and more in common with views espoused today by the likes of Jordan Peterson rather than the social justice authoritarians producing the new movies. Fans have noticed this!

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday June 25 2018, @12:18AM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday June 25 2018, @12:18AM (#697844) Homepage

      I like Jungian archetypes: Jung espoused those things were about soul, those aspects of humanity everybody believed to be universal truths without questioning why, things they knew instinctually, and were less about pedantries and all those other bullshit so-called "higher-level abstractions" people who were high on cocaine such as Freud told us that were truths.

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @12:48AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @12:48AM (#697859)

        people who were high on cocaine such as Freud told us that were truths.

        Yeah, Sigmund Fraud - the pervert who only ever diagnosed himself. The worst day of my fucking life was realising that there are people who actually fit the Freudian model. Would never had thought you would have time for Jung TBH but think I can see it in a weird way. Carl Jung will probably be entirely vindicated by RNA studies [scientificamerican.com] no surprise as his insights always held instinctively true. Ha!

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 25 2018, @01:33AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @01:33AM (#697884) Journal

      Star Wars captured the mood of the time

      Yes, there is something to that. The revolutionary special effects, and the mood of the time probably sums up Star Wars original success. Other things that didn't hurt it were the simple plot, nice costumes, and the lack of xenophobia. (Star Wars was probably the most "inclusive" work of art for years to come, if you don't count Tolkein.)

      I was happy to pay hard earned money to watch the early Star Wars. I can't be assed to watch the later works for free.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:31AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:31AM (#698677)

    Ever watch Highlander?

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