All Star Wars spin-offs reportedly on hold after Solo ambivalence

Focus has apparently been shifted back on the saga movies

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$339.5 million in four weeks doesn't scream failure, but for an entry into the Star Wars universe it's cause for concern for Disney and Lucasfilm.

Solo: A Star Wars Story's average box office performance and largely lacklustre response from critics and fans has apparently brought the whole 'A Star Wars Story' standalone train to a halt, as producers rethink the series' future.

Collider reports that sources with knowledge of the situation have told it that all spin-off movies are currently on hold, and the people working on the Obi-Wan movie that was being actively developed are no longer involved.

There was no suggestion that the recent appointment - prior to Solo - of Logan director James Mangold to the Boba Fett spin-off has been affected or voided.

Collider claims that focus has instead shifted to Star Wars: Episode IX and the trilogy of new saga films that will follow it.

Han Solo was the most obvious character choice for an origin movie, and if he can't make a spin-off soar then Disney/Lucasfilm must surely be worrying about Obi-Wan/Boba Fett's chops.

More troubling still for the rapidly branching franchise is the prospect that fans don't actually want to see a character's origin, that backstories can be filled that but that doesn't mean they necessarily should, and that Star Wars fatigue might have set in among the public.