Future 'A Star Wars Story' Spinoffs on Hold at Lucasfilm - Film, Television and Music

It may be a while before we see any more movies like Solo: A Star Wars Story out of Lucasfilm. Sources with knowledge of the situation tell Collider that Lucasfilm has decided to put plans for more A Star Wars Story spinoff movies on hold, instead opting to focus their attention on Star Wars: Episode IX and what the next trilogy of Star Wars films will be after that film. Sources tell us that the previously rumored Obi-Wan movie was in active development, but those who were working on the film are no longer involved. It was recently reported that Logan filmmaker James Mangold was in early talks to write and direct the Boba Fett film, but that was before Solo’s release. This news comes in the wake of the disappointing launch of Solo, which was only Lucasfilm’s second A Star Wars Story spinoff, but which received mixed-positive reviews and fell short of box office expectations. The film scored $84.4 million on opening weekend and has grossed $192.8 million domestically (and $339.5 million worldwide) in four weeks, which is nothing to scoff at but is far, far lower than the performance of other Star Wars movies at this benchmark. For comparison’s sake, Rogue One opened to $155 million and had grossed $424 million domestic by Week 4. To put it simply, while Solo did fine by blockbuster standards, it wasn’t the “event” that Lucasfilm expected out of a brand new Star Wars movie. .... Regardless, we’re hearing that plans to revisit this A Star Wars Story format have been put on hold for the moment. Initially announced as “anthology” movies, the spinoffs got off to a rocky start and haven’t exactly been smooth sailing. Josh Trank(Chronicle) was developing a Boba Fett movie around the same time Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) was prepping Rogue One, but Trank was subsequently removedfrom the project and Lucasfilm lost a film off its planned slate. Then story issues led to extensive reshoots on Rogue One that reworked the third act, with Tony Gilroy(The Bourne Legacy) overseeing the new scenes. And then of course Solo saw directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller fired during production, with Ron Howardcoming in to replace them and reshoot a number of scenes. Is this the end of the "2 Star Wars a year" cinematic universe?

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Ironic that the one no one wanted gets made, and the two people actually expressed interst in are supposedly canned.

Of course they don't, they gave the guy who directed the most controversial film (in terms of fandom + general reaction) three additional movies. Are they just trying to sink the license?

I was actually surprised how much i liked Solo, especially since i really disliked the idea of Han being played by anyone other than Harrison Ford himself. It was a genuinely fun space adventure movie that kept me entertained from start to finish, sad to see it doing so bad at the box office. In my opinion the main reason Solo tanked was how much of a steaming pile of shit The Last Jedi was (seriously, watching Solo i realized how bad The Last Jedi actually was, not only i was bored and disliked the tone of most of the movie, at the end it left me completely uninterested in Episode IX. At least after watching TFA i was curious to see what will happen next). I really wanted that Obi-Wan spin-off. Instead it looks like they're gonna double down on their shitty sequel trilogy, and boy i seriously doubt JJ can unfuck the mess that Ryan left him with.

Please tell me the other Rian Trilogy is on hold because for fuck's sake

Disney is a pretty good example of a novel, heartfelt thing built on genuine artistry- That has been co-opted by corporate morons with nothing but contempt for the common public. Kinda like EA games. Its pretty clear to me that there are nobody making big decisions at disney who give a flying fuck about movies as an artform, or the integrity of artistry.

Shame since the next one was the Bobba Fett movie, which was the first interesting concept to come out of these.

Just gonna copypaste myself from the main SW thread: Not going to fully believe this unless anything official confirms it, but if this is true then to be honest it's probably for the best. I'd rather they focused everything on making sure IX is the best they can right now than rush ahead of themselves with a ton of film projects all at once. Also worth noting Kenobi & Fett were never officially announced in the first place, only ever rumoured to be in development. So this announcement is essentially telling us than Lucasfilm aren't currently working on films they never said they were working on.

They really need to reconstruct Lucasfilm after Episode 9. Rian also needs to be stripped of his trilogy.

If what Rian says is true, and Lucasfilms had no plan past Force Awakens, then it was doomed from the start. What made Marvel work was a plan, stretched over 20 films to tell a full narrative.

It would've been shit because there's no way Disney would allow for a 2 hour movie of Bobba Fett just killing people.

Seems like they didn't learn from the X-men origins fiasco

All I want is an adaptation of Shadows Of The Empire, but I know that is never going to happen

That's really sad. Logan is arguably the best superhero film that has ever been made, and I wish Lucasfilm would realise that it's the well-publicised production woes that probably screwed this film over.

Was I the only one who actually liked Solo?

It's alright but if you don't watch it you really aren't missing out on anything.

From the sound of things, this move is them slowing down their roll to focus on one film at a time (which again, is a pretty good idea IMO). Depending on how far Rian's trilogy may be into development already it's possible that we won't get a SW film in 2020.

No, but the thing about Star Wars fans is they all hate Star Wars.

I can't believe they let the guy who wrote and directed Brick be in charge of VIII.

Still holding out for a film about his dad called Jango Unchained.

Never in time has there been a call for 'spaceballs 2: the search for more money' to be made so great

"it wasn't a blockbuster event" Guys not EVERY film can be a blockbuster event that is not how blockbuster events work. Oh no it only earned more money that the majority of films make whatever will we do????

Remember how the Tomb Raider reboot was a failure according to the publisher? These companies chronically overestimate sales numbers, as far as they're concerned unless it doesn't break multiple records it was a waste.

I swear I went to another movie because it wasn't eyebleach to me even though it had plotholes 12 parsects wide. which was the whole annoying point of solo seemingly.... solo was kind of meh after they all were together on the millenium falcon, the supposed climax was just boring because they had to make it the kessel run instead of any fucking thing else. even the use of the homeworld motherbanana as the bad guy's main ship wasn't enough really. solo was bad but only because it was very weak material at best

Some more info/rumours https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2018/06/disney-scrapping-star-wars-standalone-movies-rethinking-development-and-why-thats-actually-great-for-the-franchise.html https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/8sl2c1/more_info_on_disney_scrapping_the_star_wars/e108bfd/

its kinda cool that disney took risks with new filmmakers for star wars but hopefully vet talent can make the new star wars movie great

What went wrong in the minds of executives that now anything other than endless growth is failure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yYK28y0qmE

It's more that the reception to TLJ is hurting their brand, Solo was a bomb. It cost 300 million to make and only recently reached that number combined with worldwide gross. This isn't even factoring in the advertising/promotion costs. It has patently nothing to do with execs craving more, they haven't even broken even. I don't know why Tomb Raider was brought up in a Star Wars thread but it underperformed too. As of date it's domestic hasn't even come close to touching the production budget, and got its ass beat by a movie that had already been out for weeks. It also has to date made less than the Angelina Jolie films. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/134149/5e60a71d-0eb7-4776-85ba-cd508d7941a5/image.png A much better example of execs seeing failure in success is Amazing Spider-man 2, who made it's budget domestically and even more foreign and was deemed a failure to the point we have Spider-man in MCU now.