shikamaru317 said:
Yep. Colin Trevorrow dropped out after Disney had the script that Colin and Derek Connolly wrote together rewritten by Jack Thorne because they didn't like it. Then the script got rewritten again by JJ and Chris Terrio after JJ was made director. Yes, that's right, Chris Terrio, the Justice League and Batman vs. Superman writer is co-writing episode 9 |
I have almost no hope left for episode 9 at this point. Here's hoping the Han Solo and Obi-Wan anthology movies are good at least. And to think that Disney loved TLJ SO much, they okayed a separate trilogy for Rian to write and direct on his own? Again, there's the arrogance that I spoke of above. I know exactly what they thought. "Well, we got the nerds no matter what we put onscreen. We'll make it just like a Marvel movie, only with a weaker plot, so we get even more general public and kids in the theatres. And thanks to all of those cute animals, our toy sales should skyrocket." I think they may be rethinking that right now.
Mar1217 said:
That would have work if the movie was called "Spaceballs 2" |
Lol, certain parts of this movie felt like that. Hell, Luke throwing the lightsaber over his shoulder felt like it was straight out of a blooper reel where Mark Hamill was just goofing off.
| tinfamous12 said: The general public will still make this film a blockbuster. Film studios don't care about a 'core fanbase', they care about the name recognition and how many gp's they can put in those seats. Either way, I haven't heard anything bad about the movie, everyone's said it was amazing. |
Maybe you missed the OP, but it just dropped 69%. That's pretty unprecedented. Even blockbusters that fail at the box office usually drop 55%-60%. Sure, this movie is going to make its money back, mainly due to a hyped up opening weekend, but it is going to fail to bring in the profit like TFA did. That movie did over $2B. This one isn't even coming close to that. I'm not even sure $1.5B is in its future. If this continues, it's going to struggle to hit $600M, might even struggle to hit $550M, in the US. In comparison, TFA did $937M in the US. So, unless the other countries do some really heavy lifting, I don't see this doing much beyond $1B. To do only 50%-60% of what TFA is just god awful. Even more so when you consider they were only behind TFA's WW weekend by ~$80M. Now they are more than likely down ~$250M, maybe more, in just another week.
So, yea, they need that core fanbase, especially when its as large as the one SW has. They also need the good word of mouth and repeat viewings that comes from that fanbase.
