Solo: A Star Wars Story Cost More Than The Force Awakens

In what should come as no surprisal to anyone , Solo : A Star Wars Storysports one of the largest product budget the franchise has ever picture . While most installation in the serieswere plagued by product issuesin one way or another , Solowas an only different animal . Four month into filming , original directors Phil Lord & Chris Miller were fireddue to originative differences with Lucasfilm and were quickly replaced by Oscar - winner Ron Howard . The unprecedented position sawSoloundergo substantial reshoots as production ( which was supposed to enwrap in July 2017 ) did n’t reason out until last October . When it was all said and done , Howard ’s workencompassed 70 - 80 pct of the terminal film .

When aStar Warsfilm is made without any hobble , they are n’t exactly cheap to make , so one can only imagine how dearly-won it was to getSoloacross the finish line . While this intelligibly was not the original intent , the spinoff ended up with a price rag that rivals ( and exceeds ) the latest episodes of the Skywalker saga .

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In a new report card fromVarietydetailing theSolobehind - the - scenes drama , it ’s stated the product budget was more than $ 250 million . If that figure is right , it would in reality surpassthe $ 245 million budgetofThe Force Awakens , makingSolothe most expensiveStar Warsfilm of all - prison term . Rogue One(which saw all-encompassing reshoots itself ) cost $ 200 million , whileThe Last Jediwas also in that neck of the woods .

Solo’swoesallegedly double the initial budget , stand for Lucasfilm had envisioned the spinoff be about $ 125 million to make . That number sounds about right for a " smaller"Star Warsfilm operating as a tricksy caper , but things manifestly did n’t go according to plan . Fortunately for Lucasfilm , the money was n’t a tangible issue here . TheStar Warsrevival has gone about as well as one could hope , seeing that the first three pic of this eracollectively grossed $ 4 billion at the worldwide corner office(plus jillion more in merchandise sale ) . This is n’t to say what happened onSolowas ideal , but at least Kathleen Kennedy make love the studio apartment had great resources to pull this off and made a ( hard ) call in an effort to get the celluloid back on track from a character perspective .

Of naturally , Solois now in a billet where it needs to do passing well at the box spot so as to be a profitable endeavour , and it ’s deal with holdovers likeDeadpool 2andAvengers : Infinity War . If $ 250 million is the floor , that means it needs to gross at least $ 500 million worldwide to break even . Fortunately , Sololooks to be in sound frame commercially . forward-looking ticket sales event arecurrently outpacingBlack Panther , and projections indicateit’ll founder the Memorial Day gap weekend record . Hopefully , fan agree with critic andenjoySolofor the fun stickup moving-picture show it is , and the film will have strong leg throughout its run .