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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, @04:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @04:51PM (#698196)

    So you get sequels, you get book adaptions, you get endless rehashes of things that sold well previously. When was the last time you saw anything at all original though?

    I hear it all the time (about computer games, books, movies, and everything), and it never ceases to annoy me. I have two counterpoints to make in response.

    1) There is tons of new stuff all the time. For me, Hacksaw Ridge [wikipedia.org] was the latest new original thing I had seen (the 3rd most recent movie I've seen... I don't watch too many movies). It was a war movie about a pacifist, and that pacifist was pilloried and demonized throughout the story. There are TONS of new concepts all the time. You only ignore them because of the big-budget advertisements of the sequels and remakes. That's on you, though, not the industry as a whole.

    2) People don't want new things. Case in point, look at the popularity of any police procedural TV series (CSI, Law and Order, etc), at Andy Warhol's art, and at video game sequels. When's the last time you bought something completely blind? There is something to be said for saying "I'm going to give you ____," and then executing to that. Moreover, people like watching the formula, and then seeing permutations to it. 99% of romance books are "girl meets boy, they argue, eventually they get together in the end." There's nothing wrong with that, as long as there is variety... which leads to #1 above.