Discussion Would the failure of the Solo movie be a good thing?

Which I suppose translates into: "I hope the Han Solo film fails miserably so that there's perhaps a greater likelihood of seeing a film about Dooku."

I guess we should all respect each others' opinions here, but this is one that I have extreme difficulty understanding...

 

Just because I am not interested in the Han Solo film doesn't mean I want it to fail. If this introduces a new generation to Han and Chewy and the new fans revisit the OT, great. I do hope Disney will take more risks like Rogue One, we know the briefest detail about the scenario, but know next to nothing about most of the rebels and imperials involved.

 

I actually don't want to see a star wars film crash and burn, even the Han Solo Origin. I just don't want its success to motivate Disney to keep to the dark times and OT eras as the only time period to explore in the spin offs.

 

Seems a tad greedy, though, after nearly two decades of PT-focused Star Wars content.

 

Never said it should happen soon

Still some day....the Jedi of old should return to the big screen, whether that be in a pre-TPM spin off or an Old Republic era Trilogy.

 

I don't think I want to see any Star Wars film fail. Until I see it, and at the moment it's still quite a ways off, I'm ambivalent about the Han Solo movie. I know I've been won over by the recasting of characters I love before, so it could happen again and I'm well aware that this is just my worms-eye POV anyway. What will count is Joe Public's response, not my personal one. Yes, I'd like to see more offbeat projects that expand and explore the vastness of the SW universe, not focus on characters whose arcs are already done. But yeah, you do have to give these things time. Disney and Lucasfilm's plans are at a very early stage right now. They know the world is hungry for more Star Wars and so they're coaxing and cajoling their golden goose to keep laying those golden eggs in the gentlest, safest manner possible.

Every SW film and entity in existence is *designed* to succeed, more so now than ever before. To a certain extent, when GL was in charge, chances were still taken (although his non-desire to explore in live-action or even animation the dramatic territory after ROTJ always baffled me). I think a situation like that could come around again - I'd lay money on the Story Group chomping at the bit to expand in all sorts of sideways directions. But it all depends on the initial world-stomping success of not only the numbered episodes, but these first couple of spin-offs. Then they can feed the golden goose something weirder so we get some very new and different kinds of Star Wars.

 

I don't want any SW film to fail. I love the franchise in all mediums, and I dont want to wish it any ill will just because of a character not being played by Harrison Ford. Give it a chance. This film won't determine what future anthology films will be made, since that's already locked down, as Pablo confirmed George left a ton of film ideas, most going into development (this being one of them).

 

I personally am quite excited for the Han film. I think it could be great-the cameo potential alone makes me excited. I do agree that I wouldn't want them to simply make spinoff after spinoff all taking place between III and IV, or during the OT period. After Han, I would really hope they start exploring other eras. There's such a vast opportunity for so many great stories.

Seeing as how there's one coming out only once every two years pretty much-and the next three years are already spoken for, that already means it'll be like almost five years out or so before we get a chance at something different like that...But I'm willing to wait and see.

 

The only thing I want from this movie is for Han to prove the line from RoTJ:

"Me and chewie have broken into places more heavily guarded than this"

 

With all of the talk of the Rogue One reshoots, there was a story on Forbes that I thought played well to this thread:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...or-star-wars-if-rogue-one-bombs/#58158ba536a6

 

We have to see were it takes us!