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Solo's Disappointing Box Office Performance Puts Future Star Wars Story Films in Doubt

Accepted submission by takyon at 2018-06-24 15:04:18
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Lucasfilm "Licking Their Wounds" But Not Halting 'Star Wars' Development [hollywoodreporter.com]

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 [bbc.com] for over 0.1% of the film's gross.

Also at Collider [collider.com], Space.com [space.com], and Forbes [forbes.com] (archive [archive.fo]).

Related: Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years [soylentnews.org]
Meet the New Star Wars IX Director: J. J. Abrams [soylentnews.org]


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