All Future 'A Star Wars Story' Films On Hold

[AnakinFlair]

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Lucasfilm Puts Future 'A Star Wars Story' Films on Hold
By JK SCHMIDT - June 20, 2018

Lucasfilm is making some major changes in the wake of the disappointing box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, as news comes that future anthology-style movies are being put on hold.

A new report from Collider states Lucasfilm is instead focusing on the release of Star Wars: Episode IX and whatever trilogy of movies will follow after, and that some of the spinoff stories in development are no longer in the cards.

The report states the rumored Obi-Wan Kenobi spinoff from director Stephen Daldry was in active development, but the people who were working on that movie are no longer involved.

It could be the same case for the long-rumored Boba Fett spinoff, which was recently announced to be in development with Logan director James Mangold.

The news is likely going to come with speculation that Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy is in the hot seat after Solo: A Star Wars Story fell far short of expectations. The film made just $84.4 million stateside in its opening weekend at the box office, the lowest in the Disney era of Star Wars movies.

While both main entries in the saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, both entered the record books with their opening weekends and total box office grosses, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also opened to an impressive $155 million. That total is nearly twice that of Solo's, and Rogue One also made nearly $100 million more in its fourth week at the domestic box office than Solo has made worldwide.

Solo currently sits with $339.5 million total, while Rogue One had made $424 stateside in just its fourth week. In essence, Solo has done OK by blockbuster standards, but for a Star Wars movie? It's nothing less than a disappointment.

Solo is also the only Star Wars movie to come out in the month of May under Disney, and is coming just five months after the last movie with a truncated promotional period that failed to generate the buzz of previous films.

Each Star Wars production thus far has experienced its fair share of troubles, especially the spinoff movies. Rogue One experienced significant reshoots under Tony Gilroy, who did not share a credit with original director Gareth Edwards. Josh Trank was originally set to direct the Boba Fett spinoff movie, but was let go from the project after the fiasco of the Fantastic Four reboot. And original Solo directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired halfway through production, replaced by Ron Howard.

The Force Awakens underwent extensive reshoots as well, while The Last Jedi's production didn't suffer any major hiccups. It is, however, among the most divisive Star Wars movies and prompted significant backlash from fans.

It remains to be seen what will happen with Lucasfilm moving forward, as the only official movie on the docket is Star Wars: Episode IX, set to begin production under J.J. Abrams this summer.

Whether Kathleen Kennedy remains in charge, or if Rian Johnson's announced trilogy is still on track, or the series from the Game of Thrones producers get released, all remains to be seen. Those last two projects continue to remain in development, separate from the anthology films, according to the report.

Good. I haven't seen Solo yet (I hope to this weekend), but I thought they were over-saturating the market already. If anything, put out a new 'Main' film every 4 years, with 'A Star Wars Story' film in between each 'Main' episode.

[Tofali]

Good. The less we see in this cinematic universe the better. Maybe they should concentrate in animated movies

[Vakanai]

Good. The less we see in this cinematic universe the better. Maybe they should concentrate in animated movies

What animated movies?

[SUPERECWFAN1]

To me what hurt this is they obviously had issues with some of these films. Rogue One had its entire 3rd act redone as we learned. Solo had its directors fired. Plus they pushed it too soon. Months after one Star Wars film finished its run. It was over-exposure of Star Wars in a way.

[choptop]

That's to bad the spin-offs have been better than the main movies I really wanted a boba Fett movie....

[SpiderClops]

As I said in Star Wars forum, I just want the spin-offs to be set in present time. I don't like that literally none of the side stories are allowed to move past the main movies.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Honestly the brakes had to be pushed. Disney is gonna continue the original trilogy past #9 its claimed and is gonna let Rian Johnson do a new trilogy of films . So that is 6 more films ready down the pipeline. Now imagine the Boba Fett , Obi Wan and sequel to Solo ....dear lord its like every year we'd get a Star Wars film...even if we didn't want it. lol

[brettc1]

This the first SW movie in over 2 decades I haven't felt like I needed to rush to see.

Rogue One felt epic, but with this one I found myself thinking "Who cares? His worthless jerk-off son murders him anyway."

[titanfan]

As I said in Star Wars forum, I just want the spin-offs to be set in present time. I don't like that literally none of the side stories are allowed to move past the main movies.

Prequels for movies where we already know what happened to them at the end are usually hard sells. In any case, no one is asking for a Boba Fett prequel, just like no one asked for a Solo Prequel. A Kenobi Prequel (With McGregor) would still do ok because he's accepted in the role.

Same thing will happen to the Harry Potter Universe eventually. (If all we get are prequels forever and ever)

[AnakinFlair]

Honestly the brakes had to be pushed. Disney is gonna continue the original trilogy past #9 its claimed and is gonna let Rian Johnson do a new trilogy of films . So that is 6 more films ready down the pipeline. Now imagine the Boba Fett , Obi Wan and sequel to Solo ....dear lord its like every year we'd get a Star Wars film...even if we didn't want it. lol

I think that was their original plan- a new Star Wars film every year. It sounded like too much back then, and it's proven to BE too much now.

Really, the only prequel stories I'd want to see are a Bobba Fett and Obi-Wan solo movies. Rogue One was excellent, and I haven't seen Solo yet, but I do want to. But yeah, it's a hard sell when you know his son kills him in the 7th movie.

[Scott Taylor]

Tonally the main Star Wars films are going an entirely different direction from the spinoffs. Its almost as if the spinoffs are for an entirely different audience from the main line. This is a nice strategy to please everyone but does not result in every film being a blockbuster.

[Nate Grey]

As I said in Star Wars forum, I just want the spin-offs to be set in present time. I don't like that literally none of the side stories are allowed to move past the main movies.

First of all, this, a thousand times this. Second, I would want spin-off set in present time that deals with force users almost exclusively. They don't have to be Jedi or Sith per se, but just good vs evil, moving stuff around, light saber battles. When I see all these excellent fan films that have this in spades, and then the movies at best keep it to a bare minimum, I'm like wtf this is backwards.

My dream is a Force-heavy movie that doesn't involve any Skywalker family drama nor any Sith rule of two nonsense. At least we're getting the latter with the main movies so that's something.

[brettc1]

Prequels for movies where we already know what happened to them at the end are usually hard sells. In any case, no one is asking for a Boba Fett prequel.

Sorry, that's bull. I can think of a dozen people I know who want to see that.

[AJBopp]

Sorry, that's bull. I can think of a dozen people I know who want to see that.

And that settles that.

[AJBopp]

Prequels for movies where we already know what happened to them at the end are usually hard sells.

I think this statement would be a hard sell, myself.