| thismeintiel said: I'm going to go through and respond to a few posts in a minute, but I just wanted to give an update. Seems my prediction of it seeing a decent drop is proving true. TFA did dropped just over 11% going from Sat to Sun, making $60.6M. From Sun to Mon, it dropped 34%, making $40.1M. Now, if we look at TLJ, it dropped 20% going from Sat to Sun, making $51.3M. And dropped a massive 58% from Sun to Mon, making $21.6M. Wonder if Disney is going to end up regretting turning SW into a Marvel film (again, I love the Marvel films, just not every movie should be turned into one, especially Star Wars) and are going to reconsider letting Rian Johnson making his own trilogy after this one. |
It might be a bit difficult to accurately determine that any drop in performance compared to TFA is purely - or at all for that matter - due to some fan backlash at this point. That's not to say fan backlash, especially depending on the scale, should be ignored. However, this drop could just as well be about what people thought of TFA, rather than what they think of TLJ. After all, TFA was a fresh start, and everybody - hardcore fans and casual movie audience alike - was interested to see where they might go with it. What would Star Wars away from George Lucas look like? Many of them may have simply decided they (still) don't care for it upon seeing it. The film has also aged quite poorly in many people's eyes, where they originally loved it on first viewing, it's stock has since gone downhill for them.
That said, I do agree with you that Disney might wanna think twice about letting Rian Johnson oversee a whole trilogy of his own. The hardcore fanbase is important, because those are usually the people who will go prop up your film regardless of what everyone else thinks, and they also drive a lot of the traffic online, and sort of spread the hype machine to the more casual fans. So you don't really want them to fall out of love with your product, or worse, run around bad mouthing it to people, and Rian Johnson doesn't exactly appear to have earned himself the benefit of the doubt with them here with TLJ. Better to play it safe and hire someone else, at least for the purposes of writing, and producing. I actually think he did a beautiful job directing for the most part, but depending on how this plays out it might be best to just remove him from the project all together.
