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Soundwave on 27 May 2018
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Faelco said:
Soundwave said:

Actually I don't agree "any Star Wars spin-off would make a billion dollars".

Solo sure as hell wouldn't and I would've said that 5 years ago too. Obi-Wan movie won't either. Boba Fett won't either.

These spin-offs rely too much on Star Wars nerds, the general audience isn't interested enough to watch these kinds of movies and quite frankly the characters aren't *that* interesting. Deadpool is fucking interesting, you don't need to be a Marvel/comic book fan to be entertained. But Obi-Wan? Dude is not that interesting, you can't make an entire movie around him and expect $1 billion plus.

Darth Vader IMO is the only Star Wars character that could reliably bank $1 billion with a side story based soley on them and even then that script better be good. 

They could make a billion if they were well done.

 

Who cared about a bunch of completely unknown fighters without a single jeudi in sight like in Rogue One? Useless story shoehorned between 2 existing movies. But it was good, so it managed to make 1 billion. 

 

Do good movies, get good numbers. So difficult to understand that nowadays...

No they couldn't. 

Even Marvel struggles to hit $1 billion reliably and those characters have 60+ years worth of back story, hundreds of seperate writers to mine material from and Marvel is at its absolute peak right (probably will start to decline).  

Star Wars is a very nerd centric audience, the problem with spin-off films is the "regular Joe public" people who don't give that much of a fuck about everything Star Wars aren't going to be interested about every second character. 

And Star Wars is also limited is what they can do with their characters. You can't just make an Obi-Wan film that's R-rated or wildly breaks from canon, so you're limited in what you can write. 

I don't mind Harry Potter films, I saw most of the main line films, but would I go see a Ron Weasely film? Probably fucking not. The reviews on that would have to be through the roof. Nor would I want to watch a Gimli The Dwarf film from LOTR or something. No thanks, I do like LOTR but at some point enough is enough, that last Hobbit film was reeeeeallly pushing it already. 

Marvel can cheat that because they can dip into other genre types and incorporate modern humor which is something Star Wars wouldn't be able to do either.