Hey guys, how is everyone doing today? So for those who joined me in the livestream yesterday,
thanks for hanging out and asking your questions and thanks to all those who donated to the Kickstarter for the Vader fan film.
We jumped over 10 grand just because of you guys in that stream, so if we keep doing that over the next three weeks,
I know we can reach the target and make an amazing fan film for all Star Wars fans out there. Anyways. So, Solo,
I've been pretty quiet about this,
but today I want to talk about what Disney has briefly said regarding the low box-office amount that they've received for the film. With all
the reshoots,
if you don't know the story, the original directors were fired midway through shooting and in came talented
Howard who took over and completely made things right, that
Entire Fiasco cost Disney about five hundred million to make this movie. Now while I really liked the movie,
I thought it was fun for covering Han Solo.
However,
it didn't perform well up to Disney standards or at least for its projection in its opening weekend. Disney claimed
it would be a record-breaking opening weekend and it would be huge
However, the final numbers are in now that the weekend's over and the film only generated
110 million dollars as of Monday, now when stacked up against a project worth 500 million,
that's not really too great considering things usually taper off after the opening weekend. Disney's Dave Hollis had this to say about it
"There's a question of frequency and how many times people will go to the movies?
Is this too much and too soon for a third time in a five-week period?
We are all over it and we'll spend a lot of time digging into why things happened the way they did.
We have a year and a half before episode 9 comes out."
Alright, so in my opinion
I think they're going about this all wrong the way they marketed The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi was great.
Obviously The Last Jedi was a little bit different than The Force Awakens, but still it gave them good numbers
at least. It was always in our face, it was about characters
we really love, not to say that we don't care about Han Solo,
but realistically, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that I care more about Han than Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader
because that's just not true. The movie was fun, don't get me wrong,
I really loved it,
I had a good time, but to generate ticket sales by just regular Star Wars viewers beyond the crazy Star Wars fan, is gonna be
something hard to do for a movie about a character
that the populace isn't really that invested in. Now the theme I'm catching onto the Disney is using is something I like, but also
something I can see people getting annoyed of which I fully am with you guys on. Like in Rogue One
(Which I loved.)
They put Vader in at the end, a very menacing and dark and epic scene, something
we have never seen on film before
for Vader to do, at least until we see my fan film. Shameless plug Kickstarter, down in the description below and you know that sold
the film big time for me in this one. They put "you know who" at the end,
I'm not gonna give away spoilers, and that again sold this film for me. When they throw in these iconic
characters at the end,
it really just ties things all together and it's that sensitive nerve, you know
igniting our love for Star Wars even more. My opinion about Disney's direction whether it matters or not to them,
which it most certainly doesn't, but it should as I am part of their 1.3 billion projected Star Wars fan base out
there, they need to stop teasing us and give us what we want. Now if there's one question I've received more often than others,
it's you guys asking me to make a video on my thoughts that Disney should take
for Star Wars in the future and that's something that I'm finally gonna be doing not to bash them,
but just to have a friendly discussion about what we all think
could happen in the future or maybe should happen in the future for what we want to see. So as for today's video
that's all I wanted to convey:
Disney is aware of the low sales and they'll be working over the next year and a half on how to make episode 9 reach
the potential that they're aiming for. Let me know what you guys thought about Solo and the direction you want Disney to take if you
think they're not taking the direction you want. Thank you for watching today's video everyone.
I will see you all in the next episode of Star Wars
Theory. Until then, my fellow Jedi and Sith friends,
remember...the Force will be with you...always.
Now...fulfill your destiny.