that’s what you said isnt it - sorry
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if they do, it’s either going to have a much lower budget or it won’t be for a while yet. The fact that Solo was projected to make a billion dollars and will be lucky to make it to $400 million (and obviously it’s ludicrous that $400 million is seen as bad these days but that’s the nature of the beast) suggests they’ll be having a re-think of their strategy with these standalone films
but they will be making a film a year no matter what - they need material
I honestly think if they’d just held the film back until xmas it would have done just fine
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Disney have Mary Poppins Returns as their big Christmas release this year - ain’t no way they were going to sabotage that with a SW flick!
I however will not be taking my 3x teenage kids to see MPR - like I have for the new Star Wars films. Take that Disney box office!
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They’ve got Infinity War, Solo and The Incredibles 2 out in a two month period, so not sure why they’d have been against having Solo at the same time as Mary Poppins, they seem to enjoy cramming the schedules!
yes - now Disney own all entertainment a bit of inter company competition is surely inevitable
“Rebellion!”
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I’d imagine they see Mary Poppins as a cherished historical piece of IP and want to give her as clearer run as possible, hence why everything else is coming out in a big cluster? That release date has definitely hamstrung Solo a bit, poor thing was both a troubled production and not heavily marketed while going up against some big hitters.
Whisper it Solo:ASWS is Disney’s ‘Amnesiac’
More like its The King of Limbs
Saw it yesterday and it was just a bit 
Like, why did they decide that his name was given to him by the empire? Why isn’t it just his name? Why did they show us how he got his blaster? Like, why couldn’t he have just had that blaster? Just loads of pointless stuff. It was quite fun when it didn’t feel like fanfic, like the bit in the trenches was a nice change from the usual star warring, in that it actually felt like war (like bits of rogue 1). The whole double-double-double crossing at the end got a bit daft, and wtf was darth maul doing in the film? Weird. The sassy droid was daft as well, Han speaking wookiee was daft. Just a really daft film, as expected really. I didn’t not enjoy it, it’s better than the prequels, but it’s the worst otherwise.
Empire > new hope > rouge > return > last jedi > force awakens > solo > clones > sith > some other film that doesn’t exist where there’s a 6 hr long podrace and darth vader says woohoo!
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This is the main issue with it IMO, crowbarred in answers to questions that nobody was asking.
Would be a much better film if it was just a bunch of new characters within the universe that we had no knowledge of.
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Rogue One; has a scene where the characters have to pull the name “Rogue” out of their arse unexpectedly to avoid detection as they try to run away.
Solo: has a scene where a guy has to pull the name “Solo” out of his arse unexpectedly because Han is trying to avoid detection as he runs away.
I’d like to pitch to Disney how they can continue the trend on in to the Boba Fett film. Dig if you will the picture; little man’s just been birthed out of a pod by them Area 51 giraffes, they’re hassling old Jango to come up with a name for him, but he’s got shook because he’s looked out the window and seen there’s a warden sniffing around in the car park, and his ticket on the Slave 1 is going to run out any minute. Jango see the wee man bob his head a bit and he’s like “He name is… err…” [look directly into camera] “Boba”. Then he scoops up the baby and hoofs it out of the hospital, zooms off in the Slave 1. Title card comes up - “Fett: A Star Wars Story”. Rest of the film is an origin about how the other clone kids laugh at him for bobbing his head around, but then in the end his dad get him head cut off so he inherits his big metal helmet and nuts them all. Becomes most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy. Fin.
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wait until you meet his brothers bob b fett and bob c fett
Watched it tonight. Liked Paul Bettany’s 80s yuppie wine-bar spaceship. Much better than the casino-nights planet out of TLJ. Does seem to be a lot of drinking/bars featured. Probably just to emphasise than Han Solo spends a lot of time down the pub.
Also not sure what was going on with Chewbacca’s mate on the mine planet. Looked like they’d decided to save money buy using a tatty old monkey costume rather than making another wookie.
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You put Clones above Sith? Oh boy…
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Chewie’s pal on Kessel has been working as a slave for however long - he perhaps didn’t have time to have a shower, add a touch of Brylcreem, eat back to his regular weight and dust off his best bandolier?
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i watched sith once on a coach from the south of france to the north of wales and have had no desire to watch it again since. theyre both pretty close in terms of how bad they are tho, dont get me wrong
Noddy Fett
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