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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Are you kidding? Any fan who is butthurt over TLJ is a big enough fan that they are not going to miss the next Star Wars, or any Star Wars movie. They'll winge and winge, them dutifully hand over their money.
The ones who are going to stop going are the ones who don't care all that much, and get tired of SW after SW, like I have with Marvel movies. Used to see them all, now maybe one a year.
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TLJ was very flawed but still an entertaining movie filled with lots of great visuals. I'll see episode nine in the theatres despite thinking TLJ is awful in a deeper sense. Star Wars has a built in audience that will guarantee episode 9 making a billion dollars. Families will flock to it in the holidays too.
When people talk about box office disappointment, it's about an opportunity cost. If the movie makes 1 billion, but a better movie would have made 1.5 billion, that's a major issue. That extra 500 million is pure profit that Disney has lost out on.
Another issue will be fatigue going forward. If episode 9 is seen as another letdown, a new trilogy and side protects become harder to sell. The impact of this becomes greater the more they diverge from the source material and the existing universe laws.