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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: 3, Insightful) by Spamalope on Monday June 25 2018, @01:54PM (1 child)
When you change the formula from a blended fantasy hero's journey (for the guys) and romance novel (for the ladies) to a SJW fantasy you should know exactly why it's not well received. Take away the special effects budget and the franchise name and who goes to see it? (tell a great story first, THEN add those things and you've got something)
Who thought having women as leaders, then writing the character to behave without demonstrating leadership? Whoever decided on that should be forced to write a report on the leadership styles of 10 successful female leaders and how their story failed to embody those things. And a second report about the differences between those styles and successful male leader styles. The fantasy story should be an idealized version of those things - and especially never violate them unless you're telling a downfall story. You may want to include some male leader cues to help sell the character for men, but you shouldn't need to unless you're putting the female leader into a traditionally male role (and you may find those things are really 'leading in that role' things anyway). You should know the damn difference so you're not just flailing about with the script though, dammit!
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Monday June 25 2018, @09:36PM
You must seriously and thoughtfully consider the people that write these scripts and their environment. Leadership for them is an abstract and nebulous concept. Leadership in their working environment means, whoever has the most money and social connections. Who frequently enforce a fuck-for-screentime unwritten hierarchy. People who consider lying about their past, current engagements and associations as normal and expected to "get the gig". People who are judged first on appearance and how they present themselves, then on their money and connections, and these are deemed their most vital qualities as a human. This is the environment these writers live in. Of course they do not know what leadership is.