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Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? (cosmicbook.news)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the don't-get-cocky dept.

Disney's Han Solo movie was the first Star Wars movie to lose money. But is there a larger problem? dryriver writes: Comic book news website Cosmic Book News reports that even though Disney put bucketloads of Star Wars out there in 2018, revenues from all things Star Wars have actually fallen, according to Disney SEC filings. Disney made more Star Wars money in 2017 -- when only Rogue One hit cinemas -- than in 2018, when Solo, Last Jedi and SW Battlefront 2 were released.

A Rian Johnson-led Star Wars trilogy appears to have been delayed or cancelled entirely. Rumored spinoff movies for Bobba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi appear to have been put on the backburner or cancelled. Disney's CEO has confirmed that the Star Wars movies are being slowed down.

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  1. Re:Rian Johnson killed Star Wars by o_ferguson · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've been watching the series since the 70s and really like it. What got your panties in a twist?

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  2. Yes. SJW's killed it by WCMI92 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Took them that little time to kill a billion dollar franchise. Great job guys, Jar Jar Binks didn't kill Star Wars. You did, however.

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  3. It was nearly dead when they bought it. by bistromath007 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Dumbest investment Disney has ever made, hands down. The only way it could ever reasonably expect to be brought back is if they gave projects in or before the Old Republic era a real budget and kept identity politics as far away from the marketing as possible.

  4. Re:Rian Johnson killed Star Wars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps the gaping plot holes,

    So like the original films of the 70's and 80's?

    illogical character actions,

    So like the films of the 90's and 2000's?

    and inconsistency with decades of in-universe lore have something to do with it?

    So like the books and the TV miniseries of the 80's?