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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @03:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @03:54AM (#697948)

    The movie had cool special effects and cinematography was mind blowing. There was no real story. I saw it being supremely high and it almost gave me a boner. 10/10 will watch again. PS: I hated the SJW crap in it and ignored the story completely. What's left is still 99.99% of the movie.