Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard, May 25, 2018) Movie • Page 57

As bad as it may well be, unless Han talks about how much he hates sand or visits a 50's diner it at least won't be the worst Star Wars movie of all time, so it has that going for it.

 

That's the kind of positive thinking I want to see!

 

I'm gonna need to get some Thermy backstory.

 

I don't understand why people are hating on the trailer or anything in the first place. It looks right in line with Rogue One or the new trilogy.

 

I’m just wondering how many more films we have to go until they bring back pod racing. Rian Johnson was so close

 

"Now this is podracing!"

-Darth Vader

 

I’d riot.

I’ll bet my life that at the conclusion of this movie Han and Lando and the gang all fail and the universe is about to...explode. Or something

Then out of the shadows. Therm Scissorpunch walks out and ignites an orange lightsaber with duel of fates playing and saves the day. Favreaus, rians, and the benioff and Weiss series are all going to be about Therm Scissorpunch during different periods in his life.

 

Re: Therm Scissorpunch, I'm mostly expecting it to come across as a situation where someone at Disney saw how much of a meme Taserface became after GOTG2 and decided during the reshoots that Solo needed its own side character with a silly name for people to crack wise about. It's too similar to be a coincidence.

 

The Fast and Furious style Podracing movie is coming, we just gotta wait

 

It's all about the Skywalker Family.

 

I figured there'd be a possibility for a Han trilogy. It probably depends more on how this film does commercially than it's critical reception.

 

he's going to time warp into the Boyega/Ridley movies somehow and they'll be like wait didn't you used to be old and didn't you die and it will turn out he's a Looper

 

I'm not sure it's going to be totally about the money. The thing is probably going to make at least ~$700 million worldwide, and I think Disney is probably prepared for it to underperform compared to even Rogue One. I think it's going to come down to a combination of critical/audience reception and how it performs in relation to their internal expectations. But if I had to guess, the reception by the critics and audience may actually count for more in this case because a Star Wars movie is, like I said, guaranteed to be a box office success even if not obscenely so. Disney is a master of branding and at some point they need to take a step back and reassess whether what they're doing is damaging the brand. I wouldn't be surprised if Solo was the tipping point for that reassessment, if it is received porrly.

 

2018 Jake Lloyd having to wait to kill CGI Sebastian Shaw with a blunderbuss would be peak Disney Star Wars.

 

I actually want this just with actual ships in space. There’s mention of this five sabres competition in Bloodline seeing who the best pilot in galaxy is (Han ran it). It sounds awesome

 

Every Star Wars movie is going to make hundreds of millions of dollars, so I can't see Disney ever stopping making them.

 

Right...but the question was whether they will make sequels to Solo or not based on how much money it makes. If Solo is a critical/audience flop, they don't need to make more Solo movies. They can just focus on the Favreau/Johnson/B&W spinoffs in addition to the mainline Episodes instead.

 

I expect them to make them regardless of critical success. They bought the rights to Star Wars to make billions and billions and critics reviews aren't going to stop them from making crazy coin every release.

 

You expect them to keep making Solo sequels regardless of critical/audience reception when they don't need to? Interesting take.

 

Crappy critical reception does eventually eat into box office success, just ask the Justice League.

 

I said critical reception, not audience reception. I sincerely doubt a critics rating is going to weigh heavily on Disney's mind when each iteration of their Star Wars movies bring in half a billion each in profit.

 

I'm aware of what you said, I was only specifically talking about critical response because the audience is going to be there regardless.

 

Just because the movie makes money doesn't mean that audiences enjoyed it, is the point. Like @aoftbsten said above, look at what happened to Justice League: it made a ton of money but still underperformed financially and critically/with audiences because pretty much everyone except the hardest of hardcore DC fans thought it was disappointing. I'm willing to bet, given the tumultuous production of this movie, that Disney's people will be monitoring critical and audience sentiment very closely and that decision will factor in just as much as how it performs/underperforms when it comes time to think about a sequel.

There's a reason why we're only just now finding out that Alden signed on for three movies, and why we found out about it from Alden in an Esquire interview and not an official press release from Disney. They're probably mad he said anything about it because they were waiting to see how Solo is received before moving anything else forward.

 

I understand the comparison to Justice League, I just disagree that Disney are all that concerned with critical reviews as long as it's making hundreds of millions of dollars. People are going to turn out no matter what.