12 Worst Movie Spin-Offs Ever Made

12. Solo: A Star Wars Story

Not an objectively terrible movie, but an entirely unnecessary one nonetheless, Solo: A Star Wars Story was indicative of the problems that have continually dogged the Star Wars franchise ever since Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm.

Rogue One worked because it took one line from A New Hope's opening crawl and spun it off into a movie that introduced new characters and locations into the mythology, without relying too heavily on references to things that we'd already seen happen previously in a galaxy far, far away.

Solo was a movie that never had any reason to exist, and it wasn't like anyone was crying out for explanations or entire scenes dedicated to his golden dice, the Kessel Run or the awful moment where he's randomly assigned his own name.

Han Solo arrived on our screens in 1977 as a fully-formed character, and there was never any need to explore his backstory other than the obvious monetary gains to be made from capitalizing on the name of a pop culture icon. Recent Star Wars movies have rightly come under fire for a severe lack of creativity or originality, and Solo is no different.