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It ’s been seven years since Disney purchased Lucasfilm and announced its plan to liberate aStar Warssequel trilogy ( and a ton of otherStar Warsmedia ) . Next month , that trilogy — and the nine - part Skywalker saga as a whole — will be close with the highly anticipate going ofThe boost of Skywalker . It ’s fair to say that the Mouse House ’s accomplishment of Lucasfilm has n’t been a perfectly smooth ride . For starters , in those seven years , Disney ’s decision have lead tothe irreparable watershed of theStar Warsfanbase . So , here areStar warfare ’ 10 bad Disasters Since Disney Bought Lucasfilm .
Rushing the sequel trilogy
Disney and Lucasfilm had no real programme for theStar Warssequel trilogy . They hired J.J. Abrams to directThe Force Awakens , but he had no idea where it was go . He set up storylines to be pay off off later , like Luke Skywalker ’s ego - expatriation andRey ’s unclear parentageand the Knights of Ren , but there was no endgame in good deal . Rian Johnson was hired to follow up Abrams ’ level when Abrams himself did n’t even bonk where his storey was going — and the two directors did n’t speak to each other about where the tale would go next . Disney had release date at two - year intervals that it was determined to fit , no matter what the creative price .
Digitally resurrecting Peter Cushing
In the past few years , Hollywood smash hit have pioneered the art of digitally de - aging actor . Removing years from an actor who is alert and well , who delivers the performance themselves is one affair . Rogue Onewas one of the technique ’s earliest purveyor , in fact , making Carrie Fisher take care like she did in 1977 . However , the movie also feature a more ethically questionable CG effect . A plaster hurl of the late screen door legend Peter Cushing ’s font was dug out of an old warehouse and reverse into a computer - generated model so that Grand Moff Tarkin could come out in the cinema . In the immortal word of Dr. Ian Malcolm , the filmmakers were , " so preoccupy with whether or not they could , they did n’t break to think if they should . "
Firing Solo’s directors in the middle of production
The original directors that Disney hire forSolo : A Star Wars Storywere Phil Lord and Christopher Miller , the team behind21 Jump StreetandThe LEGO Movie . However , halfway through product , White House get cold feet about Lord and Miller ’s vision for the film and go off them .
They were replaced by Ron Howard , who impart Disney what they wanted and sew all the reshot material into a more or less coherent movie . Given Lord and Miller ’s track phonograph recording formaking brilliant picture show no one realized they want to see , Star Warsfans were disappointed to see the directing team removed from the new Han Solo twirl - off .
Erasing the Expanded Universe
While post - getting even of the Jedievents had not yet been search on the expectant sieve , theStar Warssaga had keep in dozens of novel and risible book and video secret plan . related to media had also explore several periods in theStar Warstimeline , and fan had spent years investing their time in all of these history . They were all roll up under the banner of “ the Expanded Universe . ” But when Disney bought Lucasfilm , one of its first decisions wasto erase the flesh out Universe and start from boodle . This was a relief for inactive devotee who ’d brush off the Expanded Universe , but a dashing hopes to diehard sports fan who bonk it .
Disregarding George Lucas’ treatments for the sequel trilogy
When George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney , he admit level outlines forEpisodes VII , VIII , andIX , that he ’d been work on , on and off , for 10 . Knowing that the Mouse House intended to create a continuation trilogy for theStar Warssaga , he wanted to give them something to solve off . But then , shockingly , Disney did n’t even use Lucas ’ treatments as a jump - off point .
This go out Lucas feeling cuckold and fans baffled . How could Disney have been so chesty to assume they could come up with a best good continuation of theStar Warssaga than George Lucas himself ?
Losing Colin Trevorrow from Episode IX
Just when the last movie in theStar Warssequel trilogy was about to go into yield , music director Colin Trevorrow departed from the undertaking , summons creative differences . With the slated passing escort forEpisode IXrapidly approach , and the studio apartment had nothing for it : no director , no hand , no program . Kathleen Kennedy called upon the one mankind she knew would take on such a monolithic labor , J.J. Abrams , and he nobly took on the challenge . But the film we ’re about to see is Plan B. Plan A fall through stunningly .
The Force Awakens’ similarity to A New Hope
For all the technical brilliance on video display in J.J. Abrams’The Force Awakens , fans could n’t helpdrawing comparisons with the 1977 originalStar Warsmovie(later retitledA New Hope ) . Rather than the Rebels blowing up the Empire ’s superweapon , the Death Star , the Resistance blow up the First Order ’s superweapon , Starkiller Base . The only plait , aside from change all the names , was that Starkiller Base was bigger than the Death Star . But it did n’t change anything about how the tale playact out . It was dissatisfactory that with all the story possibilities in the world , The Force Awakensjust rehashedA New Hope .
Consistently underperforming at the Chinese box office
China has rapidly develop into the second largest film mart in the cosmos . As a termination , most Hollywood studios want to get Chinese release for their tent - poles , because a big push button at the Chinese box seat billet can seriously bump up a movie ’s world-wide total , or even save it from bombing completely , as was the grammatical case withWarcraft . However , sinceStar Warsisn’t a beloved childhood staple in China , Disney ’s surreptitious manipulation of fans ’ nostalgia had no outcome over there . All of Disney’sStar Warsmovies thus far have underperformed in China . The Last Jedihad to be pulled from Formosan theaters after just two weeks , because it seemed like no one was buy a slate .
Fan backlash to The Last Jedi
After the merriment - but - familiarThe Force Awakensand the surprisingly excellentRogue One , the net nail inStar Wars ’ casket for a lot of lover wasThe Last Jedi . To be fair to Rian Johnson , he had limited cloth to make with , being back up into a originative nook byThe Force Awakens ’ ending — even J.J. Abrams did n’t design ahead on that one .
But some of Johnson ’s questionable originative decisions — e.g. make Luke Skywalker a cold - full-blooded killer , hold Leia fly through blank like Peter Pan , opening with a “ yo momma ” joke etc . — alienated the bulk of longsighted - timeStar Warsfans . Some even started up petitions to have the flick remade or rub out from existence , which is a trivial extreme point .
Solo’s box office failure
A few years ago , aStar Warsmovie tank at the corner post seemed unthinkable . Even the most questioning fan had flock to see Disney ’s initial tercet ofStar Warsmovies . But for whatever reason , Solo : A Star Wars Storycrashed and burn financially . Reshoots had ballooned its budget into one of the most expensive picture show ever made , so it could n’t give to bomb . And yet , whether it was becauseDisney neglected to properly market it , or because it was released in the summer and not in the vacation season , or becausethe whirl - offs are skippable , or because fan refused to accept anyone besides Harrison Ford in the theatrical role of Han Solo , or because it just was n’t that ripe , that ’s what happened . Solowas a box position bomb calorimeter .
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