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. 

An Obi-Wan movie starring Ewan McGreggor would go over really well with fans. An entire generation of of younger Star Wars fans see him as Obi-Wan. Even older fans who were not too fond of the prequels like liked Ewan McGreggor as Obi-Wan. It would be great to see what a good writer could do with that. A Boba Fett movie would be great in theory. The problem is in the original trilogy, all Boba Fett really did was stand around and look cool. Jango Fett in Episode II had more of a story than Boba Fett. I think an interesting movie could be made where we see Boba transition from orphan to professional bounty hunter and follow in his dad's footsteps. That would require someone to pretty much create a new character while still saying "yes, this is Boba Fett". It would be great if it could be pulled off but also terrible if the writers messed it up and I cannot see Lucasfilm creating a competent Boba Fett movie with their current management.

As for budgets, again, fire Kathleen Kennedy. She hires directors who are most likely paid a considerable amount of money just for accepting the job and then fires them. While I didn't hate Solo, that movie should not have bombed the way it did, even with the backlash from The Last Jedi. In 2012, George Lucas hired Lawrence Kasdan to write the screenplay. That should have been a winner right there. We're talking about the guy who wrote Empire Strikes Back. Then after Lucas was no longer involved, Kasdan handed the screenplay over to his SJW son Jonathan Kasden, which shouldn't have happened. Then Kathleen Kennedy hired Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to direct Solo. While they're bad directors, Solo was the wrong film for them to be working on. They basically filmed a comedy mostly because of the script they had to work with. This was deemed unacceptable by Lucasfilm and then they were fired. Ron Howard was then hired to finish the movie by reshooting 85% of it. Had Ron Howard been hired from the beginning, the film would not have cost as much as it did and it probably would have broke even, or even made a decent profit even with the current Star Wars backlash. So it starts at the top.