News Boba Fett Movie in the Works With James Mangold
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"Boba Fett fans prove that Boba Fett is popular with biased unscientific internet-voting poll". Film at 11.
That being said: 8th is the best he could do? Looks like we need a Chewie or Yoda origins film before him. But if the origins film of the #1 ranked character is doing so swimmingly...
I resent being called a Boba Fett fan. That was uncalled for.
Surely any Boba Fett movie is going to get cancelled now, and unless they get Ewan Mcgregor to reprise Obi-Wan, and get the marketing right, then you'd have to say that film is in jeopardy also.
I never thought I'd see the day where a Star Wars movie threatens to do Star Trek Beyond numbers.
I never thought I'd see the day where a Star Wars movie threatens to do Star Trek Beyond numbers.
Maybe. Given the numerous factors involved in Solo's performance I would not be quick to judge exactly what Disney is thinking.
Bound to happen eventually. Might as well be sooner than later.
Yeah, I do wonder if the movie bombing was due to the behind the scenes drama more than a lack of interest in the title character.
I also saw an article where someone from Disney also mentioned poor marketing, and being to close to TLJ, and Infinity War as other potential reasons.
It did seem to pop up all over the place, even in mainstream news sources, when Lord and Miller were fired and Howard was brought in.
Even if it's not that it, I still find it hard to believe that everyone has just suddenly turned their backs on the franchise. Despite what a handful of people on the internet might want you to believe, people didn't hate TLJ that much, the vast majority of the reactions I've to it have been positive. The only people I've seen who didn't like were a small handful of hardcore fans who just can't handle the fact that they decided to take the franchise in different direction than the one they wanted. If they actually go through with their threats to stop following the franchise, which I find doubtful, there still wouldn't be enough of them to actually impact the box office that much.
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As others said above, marketing is part of the issue. The changing of directors helped - the original makers wanted the movie to be far more comedic. I'd have to dig up the article but they easily did the right thing by bringing in someone else.
Fett's big thing was, apart from originating in the vile "Holiday Special" that was so vile that we see Fett, Wookie home planet, and lots of other things taken from it so it can't be all that vile, taking a frozen Han to Jabba the Hutt. Big whoop. Even the costume he had wasn't memorable.
And, honestly, a movie about a big bounty hunter capturing lots of people? Given how he ends up (one of Vader's leashed pets), the movie is simply a misfire waiting to happen. Unless the goal is to get everyone who hates the Rebels/Resistance/Smurf Village to cheer Fett on.
More interestingly, "Fett" was announced the same day "Solo" was released. Which was either the studio prematurely celebrating how awesome these one-off movies may or may not be so here comes another... or an insult to all who made "Solo" despite the problems incurred. Which, yeah, if done right there's a lot of gold from fans old and new. And while I agree that "fatigue" is part of the problem, what's inducing the fatigue? Poor storytelling. Neither "Rogue One" or "Solo" have solid stories, they're just taking what was a few minutes of fluff from the original trilogy and expanding them into 2+hr movies and adding discontinuities along the way. The highly vaunted "Vader hallway" scene is out of place and uncharacteristic in the episodic structure, though I'll concede because - if this were all a book - and people read episodes IV-VIII, they'd read VI being a partial retread of IV and VII being a far bigger retread and would likely have stopped reading after that point. But "Episode __" wasn't originally included in the 1977 movie either, so why do fans take episode numbers seriously when it's all made-up-as-it-goes-along bunkum?
And the consensus for "Solo" seems to be so far, "it's a great mindless lightweight action flick but terrible Star Wars" with "good acting, especially by Donald Glover's impression of Billy Dee Williams' Lando and Colt 45 commercials."
The problem is, if the movie's content isn't good, or at least has no vision (and at least TLJ definitely had vision, even if it's rough around the edges), everything else won't matter. What vision did "Solo" have? None, it pretty much took everything said in the old movies about Han and tried to turn a combined 2 minutes' worth of dialogue into a 2.5 hour movie. If it's a good generic movie but poor Star Wars, that's going to be a problem.
And who's the target audience, again? New fans who aren't going to care about Kylo's daddy who got killed off three years ago (but in a surprisingly not cheesy way). Old fans, the ones all the new fans want to see die, are understandably going to get upset if the characters are misused or given too many creative liberties or if the continuity being added deviates too much from the established future episodes. My guess is "Solo" was likely going to have a sequel, but the number one issue is how Han ends up being so cynical in ANH. From what I've gathered, "Solo" doesn't really lead to that condition.
This always bothered. Shouldn't we be interested in "good movies"? I don't get this weird litmus test that something is good, unless it is somehow connected to "X" then it is bad.
Han Solo is a smuggler, who smuggles things with a walking carpet. That is exactly what I am expecting the core of Solo to be.
Not so far as I have read. I would say TPM fits that description far better than Solo does.
