10 Movies That Led To Other Movies Being Cancelled (And Why)
3. Solo: A Star Wars Story Ends The Anthology Experiment
Han Solo arrived on our screens as a fully-formed character back in 1977, and by the end of Star Wars: A New Hope we already knew enough about the roguish smuggler to cement his place as one of the most iconic characters in cinema. Nobody was exactly crying out to see his origin story, but Disney and Lucasfilm plowed ahead regardless.
The writing was on the wall for Solo: A Star Wars Story when original directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were fired by Kathleen Kennedy with just weeks of shooting remaining, with Ron Howard drafted in as a safe pair of hands to get the latest spinoff set in a galaxy far, far away over the finish line.
Solo finished up as the lowest-grossing live-action Star Wars movie in history after failing to even crack $400m at the box office, which was a million miles away from the billion-dollar success of previous anthology movie Rogue One. This ultimately led to the studio abandoning the Star Wars Story idea entirely, with rumored spinoffs for Yoda and Boba Fett being placed on the back burner, while negotiations with Stephen Daldry regarding a solo outing for Obi-Wan Kenobi were swiftly taken off the table.