Just reckless speculation.
Scruffy-looking untitled Han Solo film thread
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I doubt it very much. I could see Infinity War getting close or possibly even beating it a little bit, but there is now way it's going "clobber" it. Even as excited as people are for it, I can't see The Incredibles 2 standing a chance against it.
So, instead spending their money on Disney, people will have spent their money on Disney, or they are saving up their money to spend on Disney.
To paraphrase a governor, I think you overestimate its chances.
So, instead spending their money on Disney, people will have spent their money on Disney, or they are saving up their money to spend on Disney.
In the grand scheme of things, yes, but different divisions (Lucasfilm, for example, operates as an independent business unit within Disney, with Kathleen Kennedy reporting to Iger) have their own individual P&L reports that they have to give. We're literally four and a half months away from the film's release and all we've seen from what was presumably intended to be a tentpole release is a teaser title card.
Nothing about this movie's production has been even remotely approaching what anyone would consider normal (I can't think of a production that fired its director(s) with literally two weeks of shooting left to go, then had the new director basically re-shoot the whole goddamn thing; the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is when Paul Schrader was sacked from Exorcist Dominion and replaced with Renny Harlin, who re-shot much of it and had it released under Exorcist: The Beginning ... and we all know how well that turned out).
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If Disney/LFL want to generate any amount of positive buzz for this movie, they're going to have to do it soon, and in a hurry. Maybe they've got some grand plan in mind, but the facts to date, well, they support anything close to a plan coming to a positive fruition.
Personally, I'd really like this to end up as a good movie and a (very improbable) success story (both with quality and at the box office). But there hasn't been much to provide hope for that.
Personally, I'd really like this to end up as a good movie and a (very improbable) success story (both with quality and at the box office). But there hasn't been much to provide hope for that.
Nah, I think Star Wars fatigue is starting to set in, and this will hurt it. I'm not a huge SW fan, but I was incredibly pumped for TFA. Rogue One was novel, but the excitement was lower. TLJ was anticipated because it continued the story, but didn't have the same impact as previous films and I had no real desire to see it more than twice (TFA I saw four times in the theatres).
I'm not particularly enthused about Solo, to be honest, in part due to the fact that I've seen nothing about the film. And if I feel that way, the casual fan probably cares even less.
Yeah, and they know this. Guess what? They've already planned it and will promote it at the time that will keep it buzzing in audiences' minds.
Yeah, but from what I've been seeing over the last week or so, The Internet has been doing that job for them. The complete lack of promotion is (ironically) what got the people talking.
I'm not saying it's enough, but at this point a lot of people who didn't care one bit about this "spinoff film no one asked for" are all of a sudden intrigued. Myself included.
Random thought - I want a Young Palpatine miniseries. A nice little costumed drama set mainly on pre-TPM Naboo. A story of a sociopathic young aristocrate finding out he's strong with the force. Who wouldn't wanna watch that?
I would. I actually would like for the standalone films to be more experimental in approach, genre, story, character, etc.
And maybe you're right about the "reverse-psychology" approach to promoting Solo. Hopefully it works.
I work in a comic shop, whose staff and customers surely include the non casual fan demographic.
As far as I can ascertain there is no 'buzz' at all for this movie - interest is flatlining.
Me too, and how Darth Plaqueis trains him
Meh. The Darth Plagueis covers this very material and wasn't all that great.
99,9% of people probably never heard of the book, which belongs to "Legends" anyway so it might as well not even exist.
Canon actually does acknowledge some stuff from the novel, specifically Plaguesis being from the Banking Clan species.
But if someone wanted to rewrite Palpatine's origin story from the ground up, there's nothing stopping them. Doesn't mean bits from the novel cannot be reused, though.
They're not re-shoots they're pick-ups. Normal process of movie making.
Four months before the premiere? The thing was supposed to be in the bag by now.