Posted on 06/05/2019 8:31:45 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Ron Howard has said that online trolls were partly to blame for the lacklustre box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who is currently promoting upcoming documentary Pavarotti, told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that “aggressive trolling” was a crucial factor in the film’s financial under-performance but that he still greatly enjoyed the creative experience of making the film.
“I wish it could have lived up to the box office expectations,” Howard said. “That’s disappointing. Why didn’t it? Maybe that’s the release [date], maybe it was too nostalgic, maybe pushback from the previous movie…some trolling, definitely. It was especially noticeable in several algorithms such as Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. There was an inordinate push down on the ‘Want to see’ [score on Rotten Tomatoes] and on the fan voting. There was a series of 0s and 1s on there…I didn’t take it pers
Solo: A Star Wars Story mustered $393M at the global box office off an estimated $275M budget. Released last May, the film arrived only six months after The Last Jedi. Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker, due for a December release this year, will be the fifth Star Wars universe film released since 2015. Meanwhile, web series The Mandalorian is set for a November release. Previous Star Wars spinoff Rogue One took more than $1BN in 2016.
Rotten Tomatoes has subsequently adjusted its audience participation parameters after a torrent of negative comments for Captain Marvel, prior to the film’s release.
During the audio interview, Howard also discussed the growing power of TV and questioned whether some of his previous movies – including multi-Oscar winner A Beautiful Mind — would have been made for the big screen today. Howard said he now watches more TV series than films.
Among the projects in early stages at his Imagine Entertainment is a series version of his fantasy feature Willow, which is being discussed for Disney’s upcoming VOD platform Disney +. Howard confirmed that the series is being imagined as a “continuation not a reboot”, that he hopes to direct some of the series and that he hopes Willow star Warwick Davis will return for it. Jon Kasdan, co-writer on Solo: A Star Wars Story, is another driving force behind the project’s script. “Jon has an inspired take on it,” Howard said. “There are some really serious discussions going on about it.”
The filmmaker also disclosed that he is developing an animated musical movie and is in development on several musical adaptations of films he has previously directed for Imagine.
Next up for Howard is Netflix movie Hillbilly Elegy, which will star Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Haley Bennett and Gabriel Basso.
Professor Tosspot dissected it very well: https://youtu.be/KOanp1EZZQc
That was ruthless and hilarious. I have yet to see it. I do have a crush on Emilia Clarke, though. She’s utterly adorable and her accent...
Tosspot’s reviews are brutal.
And yes, she’s a piece of candy...
Yeah, that reminds me, I’m actually a bit surprised that barely anyone is commenting on it bombing, either on FreeRepublic or anywhere else. Other than your post, the only time it was addressed as being a box office bomb was on Breitbart.
They stole their poster designs? LOL
My take,
It was a heist movie set in the Star Wars universe, not a Star Wars movie.
I felt like I was watching Han Solo’s younger brother. This was not the dude that was only in for the money in A New Hope.
Lando was ghey (my brother met the actor, vucking weirdo he said). Han getting his surname at Ellis Island was ghey.
The girlfriend plot was poorly done and unnecessary, somewhat realistic though.
The last scene with Woody Harrelson was good, but not worth the price of admission good like the Vader scene in “Rouge One”.
Greed, orchestrated by PC “executives”, have pretty much ruined one of the most loved movie franchises in history.
Impy basically agrees with Tosspot’s analysis. No need for me to ever see this crap then.
As of this writing, I’ll still probably breakdown and go see “The Rise Of Skywalker”, only out of some sense of closure. But the rest of these trilogies/spinoffs? Zero interest; there’s obviously nothing to see.
So Opie, you Leftist hack, sh**ty writing and acting sunk this turd of a flick, not internet trolls. Make a good movie, people will go see it. Pretty simple, no?
My friend was in music (studio bands) in Hollywood in the ‘70s and/or ‘80s. He said Andy Griffith had the foulest mouth of all the men in Hollywood. (Supposedly, for the women, Suzanne Pleshette was the worst.)
I think the series was doomed when the last 3 of the trilogy went with ANY plot other than the Grand Admiral Thrawn series. That was an incredible series, with a fantastic villain & another Jedi, and was superior in every way to the “First Order” (which just is not scary).
Had they made the Thrawn series, I think they could have changed the ending of the last book to keep Thrawn alive and had a VERY viable long-term series.
Thanks LS, that would have been great!
But Disney declared those stories “non canon” and that’s that.
Can you explain more about this? First I heard of it. Timotny Zahn was an approved “Star Wars” writer.
There's a thread on FR about Rocketman bombing, along with Dark Phoenix and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (good news, IMO, since all three movies sound lousy)
After FReepers clued me in that Rocketman was mostly about Elton John having gay sex and doing drugs instead of focusing on his music career, I removed the film from my Netflix queue.
In any case, the thread about it bombing is here:
Disney decreed that the “Expanded Universe” was not their cannon and they’d have no part of it.
FFD to 13:00 for the breakdown: https://youtu.be/R0QPCS4a84k
Imagine if Ron Howard decided to reboot Mayberry ? Andy would be a tranny, Opie would be an illegal, and the rest of the town would be fags and Communists.
Well he already did a Mayberry ad where all the characters in town are Obama fanboys, in an attempt to get people to vote Obama in 2008. Ron Howard donned a toupee to reprise his 8 year old character at age 50. You can see it at the 1:14 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uSk-_xw2Rk
They have a kernel of truth in that part with Andy (but not in the way they want it to be)...
Opie: “Pa, why are people so set on staying on the same road that’s been messing us up for so long ?”
Andy: “Well, Ope, people are funny. Sometimes, change scares ‘em. They’d rather keep doing the same ole thing that’s been messing ‘em up than change to the thing that can help ‘em.”
Like brainwashed or misinformed Black votes that have been voting over 90% Demonrat for 55 years as it has inflicted the kind of damage the wettest dream of a Klansman couldn’t conceive of ? And that just for starters...
I heard that Henry Winkler (RIP) let’s say, ran out of patience with him.
In real life, even.
I’m inclined to take Henry’s side.
Admittedly, I haven’t seen the movie, nor do I intend to.
But, you know...the thing Howard just can’t seem to grasp is...
... Maybe the movie just plain SUCKED....
Seems to me that when a large segment of people say it sucks, it really just might suck...
They become important to themselves.. ron howard is one, and he is a flaming liberal.
My son wrote a song howard used in a movie, and paid nothing for it. Didnt even say thank you.
It failed because it so obviously is going to suck. Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Donald Glover’s anti-American clip, as well as Jon Kasdan turning Lando into a pansexual and gloating about it weeks before its premiere, and the overall negative reception to The Last Jedi certainly didn’t help it either.
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