Hahaha! We'll see which suckers keep watching.
THREE New ‘Star Wars’ Live-Action Movies Are on the Way
One of the films will be the first time a woman and person of color has directed a movie in the franchise.www.thedailybeast.com
I give it a better than 50% chance these will go the same way as Rian's trilogy, Dan and Dave's trilogy, Patty Jenkin's movie, etc. suck. Especially after Indy bombs this summer and Disney has to tighten the screws some more.
So making a crap ton of money.
what's making a crap ton of money? None of the SW stuff is at this point. Indy is going to lose money for them with how big it's budget is. It's reported as almost $300m and that's before all of the reshoots they've had to do. The movie is going to have to do a billion to break even.
Uh...the sequels made a crap ton. Disney is cancelling all their low rated series and keeping the ones performing. You are making assumptions about Indy which could happen or be a huge hit. Nobody knows that.
The sequels didn't make near what they should have and that was 4 years ago. The shows have all tanked and merchandise is in the gutter. The last was their cash cow. And on Indy I'm making an educated guess based on the info I have about how script and how test screenings went. Word has it making crystal skull look good.
Man… Indy is gonna have to be incredible to make a billion dollars. I don’t think it’ll be a major bomb, but I’ll be stunned if this is Top Gun 2 part 2.
What should they have made? They paid 4 billion for the entire rights to the franchise. They have more than made that money back. I could say franchise X could a woulda shoulda. Star Wars is doing just fine. Sure they have had some missteps for sure but the franchise is one of Disney's revenue generators. Also, not sure your figures are right that Indy needs to make a billion just to break even. Seems like a ton of speculation on your part.
Rise of Skywalker barely made a billion. The end of the Skywalker saga should have been up closer to Endgame's numbers if Disney didn't completely screw the franchise with TLJ and it. TFA did $2b, TLA $1.3b, TRoS $1b. That's not a healthy trend and I guarantee that's not what Disney wanted to see.
Naturally the studio always wants to see their movies do "the best". I seriously doubt any bean counters are crying because the sequels did $4 billion and produced the highest grossing Star Wars film of all time with the first in the series when they paid 4 billion for the franchise. I don't think your expecations are accurate either based on previous Star Wars films grosses. I think they look at Marvel and Star Wars in a completely different lense. Just like they look at the Indy franchise in a differnt lense.
Could have easily been avoided by actually plotting out a cohesive trilogy of films rather than making three disjointed films with the same characters in them. Never flowed at all, IMHO. Then the final film was just throwing stuff at the wall to see what would stick and trying to wrap everything up as if it had been "the plan" all along. Just awful filmmaking.
Meh.THREE New ‘Star Wars’ Live-Action Movies Are on the Way
One of the films will be the first time a woman and person of color has directed a movie in the franchise.www.thedailybeast.com
Hilarious how many people are triggered right now about a new Rey movie and the other movie announcements. Different writers, different directors.
