They might take pieces of story here and there from the different lores and come up with their own story, they’ll probably change the names too.

If they go back far enough, we might even see Yoda’s father or grandfather, as they live to be around 900 years old, so who knows.

I do wonder if they will keep certain alien species, like Yoda or Tusken Raiders in this new trilogy, something that we can relate too, something that says, that’s Star Wars, even though it’s in another part of the galaxy and time frame.

Maybe Rodians died out in between ROTJ & TFA.

Ooh, wouldn’t that be a splendid development?

After watching TLJ quite a few times I must say I’m really excited about Rian Johnson’s SW trilogy, so much so that it’s what I’m looking forward to the most of the upcoming SW movies.

So, has this been cancelled?

Ah, alright. I’m really not sure what’s going on with Disney/Star Wars right now, though. I can’t seem to find anything where they have acknowledged anything after Solo didn’t meet their expectations.

SilverWook said:

Disney is probably going to focus on Episode IX for now. Once Galaxy’s Edge opens in the theme parks they have the perfect opportunity to cross promote or announce new movies.

Funny how Solo has made more money than Ant-man & The Wasp and nobody is calling that a bomb. 😉

Solo didn’t make more money than the new Ant-man and it was 100 million-ish dollars more expensive.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=untitledhansolostarwarsanthologyfilm.htm
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ant-manandthewasp.htm

i was going to argue about the budget only to realize the only source i had for my claim was wikipedia 😛

Mielr said:

I’d be very surprised if RJ is kept aboard. The trilogy might still go forward—but I’ll bet it’s with a different director.

The trilogy only exists because of Johnson, and as a way to give Johnson more to do for the franchise, so I doubt that would make any sense.

Not to mention, TLJ has been the smoothest production any of these films have had thus far, and resulted in a big commercial and critical success for the company. Obviously the film has been divisive for fans (to what extent is up for debate), but I’d wager that A) 80% of people going to see these movies have no idea who directs them, and B) most of what made TLJ divisive was his treatment of legacy characters, which presumably wouldn’t factor into his new trilogy anyway.

They could still cancel, but I’d be pretty surprised if it had anything to do with Johnson.

Collipso said:

SilverWook said:

Disney is probably going to focus on Episode IX for now. Once Galaxy’s Edge opens in the theme parks they have the perfect opportunity to cross promote or announce new movies.

Funny how Solo has made more money than Ant-man & The Wasp and nobody is calling that a bomb. 😉

Solo didn’t make more money than the new Ant-man and it was 100 million-ish dollars more expensive.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=untitledhansolostarwarsanthologyfilm.htm
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ant-manandthewasp.htm

A film needs to make 2 - 2.5 times its budget to only break even.
Solo budget - 275 millions, needs 550 - 687.5 millions to break even, made 213 millions.
Ant-Man and the wasp - budget 162 millions, needs 324 - 405 millions to break even, made 211 millions.

So in the case that the numbers I just googled are correct, both movies bombed, but Solo lost more money.

pittrek said:

Collipso said:

SilverWook said:

Disney is probably going to focus on Episode IX for now. Once Galaxy’s Edge opens in the theme parks they have the perfect opportunity to cross promote or announce new movies.

Funny how Solo has made more money than Ant-man & The Wasp and nobody is calling that a bomb. 😉

Solo didn’t make more money than the new Ant-man and it was 100 million-ish dollars more expensive.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=untitledhansolostarwarsanthologyfilm.htm
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ant-manandthewasp.htm

A film needs to make 2 - 2.5 times its budget to only break even.
Solo budget - 275 millions, needs 550 - 687.5 millions to break even, made 213 millions.
Ant-Man and the wasp - budget 162 millions, needs 324 - 405 millions to break even, made 211 millions.

So in the case that the numbers I just googled are correct, both movies bombed, but Solo lost more money.

Not necessarily true as you aren’t factoring in worldwide grosses were Ant-Man made a decent bit more.

Ultimately the bigger failure for Solo was the foreign grosses (which is what tentpoles moreso rely on there days). SW has always had a predominantly American fanbase - perhaps the fact that this was a film made specifically for a fan favorite character hurt perceptions. People in China don’t have any real allegiance to Han Solo, so maybe there was a failure in marketing there to make it seem not just for the hardcore fans.