Update: LucasFilm denies report | Report: Future Star Wars standalone movies on hold at LucasFilm

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shikamaru317 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

so they're going to push ahead and make more movies that many fans of the franchise actively want them not to make.

This would be like people who loved a sandwich joint but were allergic to peanuts found that place now insisted all sandwiches and tea came with peanuts.

The only real change so to the star wars stand alone movies after this one will be that their budgets will be even stricter again as they'll have to take into account the potentially low sales of a movie about some of the more abstract background characters from the original or even prequel trilogies. Not that a strict budget is always a bad thing, one of the cheapest made Star Trek films ever was Wrath of Khan because there was no faith in the series after the Motion picture bombed so hard... think still hard to name many Trek movies better than Khan.

Most Star Wars fans really want the Obi-Wan movie from what I've seen, they want to see Ewan McGreggor in the role again, and if they work Maul into the movie as well, which is easily possible, I think the movie will go over really well with fans. 

The Boba movie on the other hand, I've seen mixed feelings about, some people want it, others think that a character like Boba who was mostly silent in the original trilogy can't carry a movie. If I were them I'd make it about a younger Boba, show the climatic duel between Boba and Cad Bane that we were supposed to get in season 6 of Clone Wars. The young Boba actor has even expressed interest in reprising his role.

I agree that tight budgets are a smart move for them, they should try and keep them below $100m if at all possible, $120m at most. Solo was going to have a $120m budget before the expensive reshoots after the director change, would have made a profit with that original budget, especially after the home video release and tv/streaming rights were sold. 

There has been a lot of potential content which could fill in the gaps in the Obi Wan movie and fill up a 2 hour movie if done correctly (possibly)

But Boba Fett I mean he has effectively zero character on screen in the original trilogy other than he was a silent bounty hunter who died in a hole, how do you even begin to market that, the only thing I could picture would be a very risky type of film with a near silent main character with the majority of dialogue coming from others who are either running from him or talking him up in scenes until he arrives and lives up to either the fears of his enemies or the accolades being bestowed to him by his peers. Otherwise what are you gonna get... him in the mandalorian armor for an opening scene where you establish him as Boba, 20 minutes to introduce his Fett family or something to be emotionally attached to, then 20 minutes of him having a child but it being effected by space cancer or something from him being a clone and that sets up a reason for him to go and bounty hunter up some people for money to pay for force chemo.

 

What I'm saying is.... from a cinematic stand point, can you sell a movie to the masses based on

"Before he went down a hole in Return of the Jedi"

"Before he was that guy that stood in the background of Empire Silently"

NOW

"played by some child actor from the prequel trilogy"

"now you finally get to see, that fight you've been waiting for from the cancelled star wars cartoon"

FETT A STAR WARS STORY

 

 

I can already hear the tickets for it not selling....

 

as for the Obi Wan movie though... I'd at least be moderately interested in that, but after TLJ and Solo in the cinema I really will need some convincing to go back to the big screen (bigger screen, have a home cinema projector lol) I will most likely be watching Ep 9 on Blu Ray if it's reviewed well by viewers or download if it's out on that first basically.