This keeps happening. It’s like clockwork.
This is starting to get embarrassing. And it doesn’t reflect well on the company. They really need to be more sure-footed about the projects they announce.
Like clockwork? Embarrassing? How so?
When you add them up, we’ve had a lot of cancellations coming out of Lucasfilm.
Josh Trank’s Boba Fett movie, the follow-up to Solo that Kathleen Kennedy spoke about in interviews, Colin Trevorrow’s Episode IX, David Benioff and Dan Weiss’s trilogy, Rian Johnson’s trilogy (possibly; it seems to be on indefinite hold), the Rogue Squadron movie, and now this. There might be one or two I’m forgetting, also.
Not to mention the production troubles and last-minute retooling of Rogue One, Solo, and Rise of Skywalker (and The Force Awakens, of course, was written at basically the eleventh hour, when the sets were already being built).
Other big franchises have this happen from time to time, but not nearly as frequently. Star Wars is an anomaly, in that regard. When Star Wars projects keep falling through or having major behind-the-scenes trouble over and over again, it starts to indicate a pattern of dysfunction and indecision. That’s why it reflects poorly on Lucasfilm. It makes it look like they’re just taking shots in the dark. I can see why a lot of directors and writers wouldn’t want to work there, too, since you don’t know if your creative vision will even end up intact by the end.
Also, it makes it hard to keep getting excited about new projects that get announced when you know there’s a decent chance they won’t happen. It would be better if they held off on making those announcements until the projects are definitely happening.