Posted on 06/23/2018 6:59:28 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Until the breathtaking box office failure of Solo, Disney was brimming with plans to fill out the Star Wars universe with standalone stories like Rogue One and Solo. In fact, movies about Obi-Wan Kenobi and the bounty hunter Boba Fett were already in active development. The plan now, according to Collider, is for Lucasfilm to retreat from these standalones to “focus their attention on Star Wars: Episode IX and what the next trilogy of Star Wars films will be after that film.”
While it will be nearly impossible to articulate just what a disaster this is for Disney, let me try…
You have to keep in mind that Disney paid $4.06 billion — with a “b” — to buy the rights to Stars Wars from George Lucas. And thus far, Disney has made nowhere near their money back.
According to Deadline, 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was a money printing machine that generated an incredible $780 million in net profit. The Last Jedi generated $418 million in net profit. Rogue One brought in $319 million. That is roughly 1.5 billion in net profit. Let’s be generous and add another $1 billion in net profit for toys and home video. We are now up to $2.5 billion. From here, we have to subtract at least a $250 million loss for Solo. The bottom line…
Disney is not only still deep in a financial hole, Disney has a damaged brand on its greedy hands.
How damaged?
Let me offer you the best analogy I can come up with.
Because of a whole series of unforced errors made by executive producer Kathleen Kennedy (that I will address in a bit), Disney has been forced to retreat all the way back to the trilogies...
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Disney sucks
I am so grateful for my brilliant decision not to have watched any of the Lucas prequels but Phantom Menace and none of the Disney SW movies but Force Awakens.
My condolences toward the die hard stat wars fans who have been ruined by watching all 7 of these abysmal movies and have the permanent distaste from experiencing them.
By not having seen 2 of 3 the Lucas prequels or 3 of the 4 Disney movies, I at least saved myself from the horrible memories of seeing these rancid, putrid films.
I wish I had not seen any of the 7, but after the original trilogy, I just assumed the first prequel film would meet the standard. With Force Awakens, I was just curious to see if Disney could salvage the franchise or would destroy it
My condolences to anybody who has seen all 7 of these despicable movies. You have my sincerest sympathies.
There are 3 Star Wars movies. There are only 3 Star Wars movies. There will always only be 3 Star Wars movies. I watch them on a regular basis, enjoying the fact that there are no other existing Star Wars movies for me to exist. Putting Star Wars in the title of a dog poop movie does not indeed make it a Star Wars movie.
What you said. Bravo!! MTFBWY
Thank you. We ate mot alone. Millions of Star Wars fans feel the same way as we do. To our detrimemt. Ican only imagine the joy of having 10 Star Wars movies that I enjoy watching as much as the first 3.
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