10 Filmmakers Who Blamed Audiences For Movie Failures

10. Ron Howard - Solo: A Star Wars Story

Star Wars is a strange franchise. It's one of the biggest in the world, in terms of pop cultural impact and longevity. Though it has seen something of a renaissance since The Mandalorian first released, there are genuinely more bad Star Wars movies than good.

Of all of them however, there is only one Star Wars outing that can be classed as a box office bomb. At less than $400 million, Solo: A Star Wars Story brought in $100 million less than the next lowest box office number from a galaxy far, far away, which released 35 years earlier (Return of the Jedi).

Solo was infamously plagued with issues all throughout production, from Alden Ehrenreich reportedly struggling on set, to a change of directors after 90% of the movie was shot, to making a feature about a backstory that no one really wanted or needed to see.

Still, Ron Howard blames the poor performance on the audience letting their feelings for The Last Jedi - released just six months earlier - cloud their judgement. Star Wars fatigue certainly may have been an issue, as well as online trolls who plague far too many cinematic releases, but it seems naïve to put all of the blame for the flop on these two issues.