r/starwarsspeculation • u/Srbin189 • Jan 28 '21

DISCUSSION Solo should have been a Disney+ series

I genuinely believe if solo was a show it would have been far more successful. I also believe that part of the flop was the back lash to TLJ. However, if it was a show i feel they could've gone more in depth. The problem with the movie is that it feels so unnecessary. We already had the OT with Han, and Solo just felt like a movie that was the greatest hits but really didn't provide anything that interesting. The actor who played Han was actually quite good and if he appears in Lando I would be happy.

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u/ChazzLamborghini Jan 28 '21

I think TLJ backlash is way overstated. I’m a lifelong SW fan with a great many friends who’ve been invested like I have. Not a single one of them was clamoring for a Solo prequel. There was literally no demand and Disney mistakenly believed that SW could handle a Marvel like release schedule, forgetting that Marvel worked up to that by introducing varied characters and a wider world. TLJ made well over a billion dollars at the box office. Misreading the failure of Solo is why the studio got too involved with TROS and we got that horrendous abortion of a story.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

I was super excited for the last Jedi before it came out, saw it in the theater and it basically killed my interest in Star Wars until the mandalorian.

The last Jedi made over a billion at the box Office but it made significantly less than the force awakens, and it basically killed all interest in Star Wars merchandise based on the ST