Looks like we are stuck with Crap Wars, well at least we have the Disney+ shows and the animated stuff.

Rogue One deserved to earn more than TLJ and TROS

STAR WARS: THE SINKING OF SKYWALKER. Not my Star Wars.

And that’s why we have all these fresh rumors of new movies and stepping beyond trilogies. A movie comes out to middling reviews and still makes a billion dollars. Imagine what a new set of movies without the Skywalker baggage and great reviews could do said every executive at Disney.

RoS reaching a billion after a month:



Never thought the big 9 movie conclusion of the Skywalker Saga would take so much time to reach a billion.

Did I just read an article laying ROS's financial performance at the feet of.....ROS?



It's obvious that the SW brand is strong, but it's also been true since it reemerged that you have to make actual good films or else you don't maximize the potential. We knew that with SOLO and we're seeing it here to. I said it a little over a month ago that the floor for these mainline SW movies is 1 billion assuming they don't fully crap the bed (and as bad as ROS is in many places, it's not quite "time to sleep in diapers" levels of shitty) and the ceiling for a really crowd pleasing film is in the 1.3-1.5 billion range assuming there's no significant competition, and the idea of making 2 billion again on any of these is incredibly unlikely, as it should be. You're never getting the old cast back aside from maybe Hamill, and you're never going to cash in on decades of audience longing for the OG cast again. We now have enough of a sample size to know all of this is likely the case. Where they go from here dictates a lot but they have to get good people involved (and they have Johnson, Waititi, Favs, Chow, Fukuyama, etc) and as long as they let them be creative they will be able to keep the audience engaged.

Also, all this talk of it being the "end of a 9 film saga" has never held weight with me, just like ROTJ wasn't REALLY the end of a 3 film saga and ROTS wasn't the end of a 6 film one. There's no way they aren't revisiting this in the next decade in some capacity