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DominicCobb
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The Boba Fett movie
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Date created
20-Jun-2018, 2:52 PM

Seems like they’ve hit pause on this and Kenobi after Solo’s underperformance:
http://collider.com/star-wars-spinoffs-on-hold/

Which is probably smart. The truth is probably that movies based on single characters were always going to be something of a tough bet, because there isn’t much of a precedence for this (whereas with superhero solo films those characters already have built in solo recognition). At the very least they need to adjust their expectations going forward - not every movie with the SW name on it will make a billion just because - and scale down these productions if they want to go forward with them at some point.

My wild prediction is that, if we do see these spin-offs resume, they’ll be on Disney’s streaming platform. I think part of the problem is that people just aren’t crazy about one SW theatrical film a year, which probably shouldn’t be a surprise, considering everyone got mad about that when it was announced in 2012/13. Again, the only precedent is really Marvel, and I guess the lesson is that SW is not Marvel, for better or worse.