12 Worst Movie Spin-Offs Ever Made
Even though he doesn't make many sequels, Jim Carrey still has a lot to answer for.
When a franchise runs out sequels, reboots, remakes or re-imaginings, then a spinoff is usually the only remaining avenue for the studio to continue to wring every last drop of profitability out of a well-known property.
It's much easier to continue featuring characters that audiences are already aware of to sell a movie than come up with something new, and it speaks volumes about the lack of creativity in today's big-budget sphere that Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was the highest-grossing original concept to hit theaters last year, but still doesn't even crack the top 20 earners.
Creed, Bumblebee, Deadpool, Logan, Hobbs & Shaw and others have shown that spinoffs can stand on their own merits and exist separately from their parent franchises if handled correctly, but on the other hand there's been more than a few that were created specifically and quite obviously to make a quick buck, but as the old saying goes, familiarity often breeds contempt.
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.