Disney/LucasFilm is hitting pause on all of the Star Wars spinoffs after Solo: A Star Wars Story bombed at the box office. [LaineyGossip]
Blue Ivy shields herself from watching her parents in bed together. [Dlisted]
This tampon commercial spoof is actually pretty funny. [OMG Blog]
I do love this Jason Momoa fan photo. [Looper]
This week’s Time Mag cover is brutal for Donald Trump. [Pajiba]
Robert Pattinson was on the Tonight Show last night. [JustJared]
Kevin Smith has lost a lot of weight. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Ruth Negga is going through a patterned-fabric phase. [GFY]
Tom Ford’s latest menswear collection is full of some snug-fit pants. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Well, they could do a Lando spin off…
Yes, please.
I want to see an origin of Leia. How did a sheltered princess become a rebel leader? How did she develop the inner strength to watch her planet get obliterated and still not betray the rebellion? Carrie Fisher’s own daughter could star.
yes!!!
Yeah I think they missed the boat going with Han (though I heard it was a good movie). Leia or Lando would have been better focuses for a prequel.
I went in with very low expectations and really enjoyed it. The mistake was the romance story line. It just needed to be about a man and his Wookie.
a Leia story would have been really really good.
I haven’t seen Solo, but I don’t really have any interest (and I love Star Wars.) My issue is that I always thought part of Han’s appeal was his mystery, this sort of intense and scandalous and dangerous backstory that we don’t really know. So I kind of want to keep it that way.
Leia or Lando are definitely the better candidates because they both go through *actual character development* previous to the OT. The problem with Han is that his main character arc actually occurs during the original movies. On the other hand, Leia became interested in a rebellion at a young age (her family is royalty – they could’ve easily stayed out of it and risked nothing), and Lando was implied to have gone through a major character shift from rogue and smuggler to responsible businessman and leader.
Can’t think of a reason why they weren’t considered for a movie. 9_9
I would love be a Leia movie starring Carrie Fisher’s daughter.
NO. And her adopted father was one of the founders of the rebel alliance, no big mystery there.
I saw it and I can understand that it bombed because it was so easy to get tickets right after it premiered, but I enjoyed it. Not a huge SW though, so maybe that’s why I liked it. Also always have had a huge crush on Chewbacca so maybe that helped too…
Not happening. Maybe there would be some interest domestically, but the international audience completely and utterly rejected the Solo movie and characters. Even in places where Star Wars is popular like the UK, France, Australia; Solo is struggling to make 1/3 of Rogue One’s box office. 1/3!! And it had a similar budget (more with reshoots). That is horrendous. So no way are they going to risk a film on standalone characters for the foreseeable future.
Maybe, maybe a Kenobi film down the road (Ewan McGregor is an international name, Donald Glover, talented as he is, is not (yet). And Boba Fett? Ha! Not unless they cast DiCaprio). I’m not holding my breath. No the next one will be a story, not a character movie. Even then though using characters from Solo when it failed so badly is unlikely, even just from a perception sense.
Koko the gorilla died today, at 46 years old.
Awww. Hopefully, she’s paling around with Mr. Rogers and Robin Williams somewhere in the afterlife.
This news just depressed the heck out of me today, I teared up when I saw it earlier and I cannot explain why. RIP Koko 🦍
Aww rest in peace, Koko. Koko’s Kitten was the first book I bought with my own money at a school book fair in second grade. She was a good cat mom!
That was the news I woke up to. Very sad. What was cute was the newscaster said something like “one of the world’s biggest stars has died” and I was wracking my brain trying to think of who it could be, then he said Koko’s name. He was right, Koko was a huge star.
I missed this yesterday! My heart is broken.
That Time magazine cover is CHILLING. It’s a punch in the gut… I am so ashamed to be American, I’m so so sorry to my fellow brothers and sisters that this is how we treat you and your babies. May God have mercy on us.
Jesus, seriously, they went for the throat. Which they should, but wow. That could be a shot right out of history – Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, etc. Our evils are cyclical in this country.
Trump won’t get what it means, he’ll just brag that he’s on the front of Time again.
That TIME cover coupled with Melania’s WTF jacket are a punch in the gut. Trump (and family) boggles the mind and breaks the heart of anyone who’s paying attention.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Problem is, not enough people are paying attention…
That distressed child reminds me of the iconic picture of a child on fire from napalm during the Vietnam war. Images are powerful in a way that words are not.
I suspect this is not a TIME cover that Trump will hang on the walls of his properties. Unless staff is smart enough to just cut out the picture of the toddler.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is apparently still seeking out detention facilities on military bases to house 20,000 children. Could be normal bureaucratic inertia, or could be that Ttump still thinks separating children from parents is a neat idea but he just has to sell it better.
Or could be that they are anticipating rounding up pesky American dissidents, as was really planned by the lovely Oliver North in response to potential widespread protest of escalated US proxy wars in Central America. Martial law was also part of the plan. I would worry about that being done in response to a “terrorist attack” conveniently happening just before the election.
Be vigilant.
Poor Blue Ivy! I could watch that clip (the clip of Blue, not the one she’s watching) all day long.
I agree. Blue Ivy for the win.
Disney could have gone one of two directions–a movie about Han Solo or a movie about Obi Wan Kenobi. They went with Solo because of the popularity of a character brought to life by Harrison Ford when they should have gone with the character that was popular because of his importance to the story not just the actor (and the fact that Ewan McGregor is perfect age to reprise the role wouldn’t have hurt either).
Hopefully they’ll still make Kenobi some day but this will always be a blip unfortunately (even though I liked the movie personally)
I saw “Solo” two days ago. Actually the story per se was really nice, a very enjoyable popcorn movie, and i say that as a die-hard Star Wars Fan.
But.
The Casting was completely off. Emilia Clarke, Alden Ehrenreich and even Donald Glover simply don’t have what it takes to be on a movie screen.
Woody Fckn Harrelson saved that whole movie with his screen presence.
These stories require that certain “je ne sais quoi” from their actors.
The death of this movie was simply the casting…Casting was wrong. I did think Lando was good casting. But Han no way he was just annoying, not at all like Han Solo.
Yes, Han Solo is so indelibly Harrison Ford it was doomed to fail with anyone else in the role. Especially when the rumors when out that the lead actor had to take acting lessons during the actual shooting of the movie.
Alden simply has NOTHING. No charisma, no internal turmoil, bland, basic, dead eyes. Like he’s medicated. Nothing shows through of his inner workings to make him interesting. What is it with this crop of benign, medicated, charmless actors coming through. There’s nothing of Han Solo in him. How could they have been so off in the casting. It’s not just wrong it’s like abominably MASSIVELY DISASTROUSLY wrong!!
I read somewhere (and it was probably true) that after the opening weekend Lucasfilm would have to decide which one was the exceptional case for the stand alones; Billion dollar smash hit Rogue One? Or massive disappointment Solo? And yes it’s more likely Rogue One was the exceptional case..but unfortunately their announced future spin offs more closely resembled Solo. Oops!!
And I agree casting was beyond weak. After the extremely dynamic and interesting casting in Rogue One and the Saga films (mostly…I hated Benicio Del Toro’s performance and Gwendolyn Christie was so badly used its a crime), Solo’s was just dull.
The bigger problem was budget though. Solo at a $100 million budget is a minor hit…at its actual budget with or without reshoots? Disaster. So they can still make character movies, but they need to make them for a lot less…or figure out really fast how the Rogue One characters survived that blast. 😉
Time Magazine doesn’t mess around with their covers. I love them.
The news of Disney pressing pause on Disney spinoffs gives me SO MUCH JOY. Rogue One was wonderful, but Solo was just godawful. It was just two hours of lame, unnecessary backstory (Non-spoilery example: Han calls Chewbacca “Chewie” because he thinks his full name is too long to say every time…they really put that in the film). I love Star Wars too much for Disney to just arbitrarily go “hey, let’s make one every year!” A little more thought behind that would be nice.
No great loss. But my guess is they’ll greenlight the next ones eventually. Hollyweird is in the franchise business with everything these days. They want a “built in audience” instead of doing the hard work of creating something great and original. It’s like hoping their ageism, sexism and child exploitation will end. Not in my lifetime will Hollyweird reform come about. There will be a sea of useless Star Wars spin offs until my dying day and beyond.
Disney were told repeatedly since the announcement of it that no one wanted a Han Solo movie, but they did it anyways. Because Han was popular, not because a prequel story of Han was something that was ever wanted.
Han’s character arc was already well done in the original trilogy, and his story was concluded in The Force Awakens. He was done. Rouge One worked because finding out how the original Death Star plans were stolen was something that hadn’t been told on screen before. Han’s character story WAS. Over four movies.
$4.06 billion dollars, and only two films out of four can be called any kind of real success. Way to go Disney.
Disney paid too much money for the Star Wars property to permanently suspend spin offs. They’ll re-group and come back with something.
They needed to actually sit down and plot a good story out before rushing it to film. The sequel trilogy had a lot of promise that just got crushed by the completely disjointed writing. There’s just so little sense of continuity between TFA to TLJ in terms of characterization, it’s ridiculous.
Mcstar Wars has been done to death. I’m amazed at much Mcstar Wars merchandise has flooded the market. Enough already.
This whole “a Star Wars movie every year” thing that Disney was trying to do was just overkill.