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Soundwave on 15 January 2018
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epicurean said:
Soundwave said:

Do people honestly think if you added a training scene for Rey and made other elements of the film like what a certain portion of the fan base was advocating for that The Last Jedi adds like $400-$500 million in box office?

Does anyone seriously think that?

The movie was making a max of $1.5 billion I think even if it was as "crowd pleasing" as The Force Awakens. A large part of the TFA's appeal was it was the first Star Wars movie in a long time and even more than than that for a lot of people it was the first Star Wars movie to bring back the "feel of the originals" which was a 30-40 year wait. 

A second movie was never going to have that novelty going for it, Disney can either stop making Star Wars films for 10 years if they want to build that feeling back up, but you can't have it both ways. You can't release a new Star Wars movie every year and expect every one of them to be a huge event. At some point it just becomes "oh, hey its another Star Wars".

No idea overall. I know I would've seen it another time or two if they had treated Luke better and not had so much horrendous comedy. There's probably others like me, but who knows.

The thing is I don't think the "hardcore Star Wars fanatic" base is as large as people think it is. 

Even if that group is say 10 million strong and they all agree to see the movie an extra time (keeping in mind a big chunk of this audience sees the movie 2x already) ... that nets you what? An extra $100 million? So you have $1.3 billion instead of $1.4 billion. 

That's not really moving the needle. 

You can't release a new Star Wars every year and expect people to go see every one of them 2-3x in the theater, that's not gonna happen. Eventually people, even fans realize "oh OK so this is going to be a yearly thing now" and it's not as special even if the movie does 100% of everything people want it do to. 

But the bottom line is a new Star Wars movie every year simply makes more money. You may have to sacrifice $200-$300 million off each movie, but you're getting a $1+ billion influx of cash every year and a new movie every year means every year stores have to buy up a new wave of toys, t-shirts, books, games, etc. etc. 

So you know this is a pretty easy choice for Disney to make.