"Solo: A Star Wars Story" was a major box office disappointment. The film did not wow many people be it fans or critics. The film went way over budget because Ron Howard was brought in and he re-shot most of the film. Now most people don't care about how hard it was to get a movie finished. Most of us just want a good movie. Well "Solo" is not a great movie. However it is slightly better than "The Last Jedi". However since both of these films did not sell many "Toys" Disney is now slowing down the output of "Star Wars" movies. The best thing they did however is bringing back JJ ABRAMS to direct the next movie in the "Skywalker" story line. Hopefully he can fix "Star Wars". Major fans hated "The Last Jedi" and I am one of them.
Now that "Solo" is a major box office bomb (It cost over $300,000,000) Disney will need to excite fans again. It won't be that hard to do. As mad as the fans are at Kathleen Kennedy there is one thing Disney can do to win back fans. That is talking George Lucas into releasing the original theatrical cuts of "Star Wars" "Empire" and "Jedi".
George Lucas is on record saying those versions no longer exist but film preservationist Robert Harris said reassembling the film would not be hard at all because the original film elements are around! Even if they took the LASERDISC 1993 transfers they could easily color correct those transfers with digital tools. The soundtrack however would need very little clean up work.
Disney lost about $100,000,000 on "Solo". "The Last Jedi" sold very little merchandising. So Disney needs to bring back the fans and giving them the original theatrical versions of the original trilogy is way to reignite the fan base and that would also boost toy sales.
I see the original theatrical version of "Star Wars" coming in 2021. This will be part of the 9 part "Skywalker Saga". I am sure that set will include 2 versions of each film.
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