A Star Wars Story spin-offs reportedly put on hold by Lucasfilm after Solo's box office failure

After the box office failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story , Lucasfilm has decided to put all A Star Wars Story spin-offs on hold.  Collider reports the Disney-owned studio will focus its creative efforts on the final installment in the current trilogy, Star Wars: Episode IX, before starting its work on the next trilogy. It was previously reported that Star Wars fan favorite Boba Fett would be getting his own spin-off movie in Lucasfilm’s epic space franchise. Several other projects were in the pipeline, including an origin story on Luke Skywalker’s mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi , with Stephen Daldry in talks to direct. But it looks they have all been scrapped for now. [caption id=“attachment_4493679” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] A still from Solo: A Star Wars Story/mage from Twitter.[/caption] Solo: A Star Wars Story, starring Alden Ehrenreich as a young version of the swashbuckling space pilot first played by Harrison Ford, fell below expectations at the North American box office, taking in $84.4 million on its opening weekend. The previous film, Rogue One, earned over $155 million on its debut. Some film analysts have blamed it on Star Wars fatigue. Even by the standards of today’s sequel/prequel-heavy Hollywood, the franchise from Lucasfilm has been prolific. Solo has amassed a cumulative global total of $343 million, pushing it into the top 10 for 2018. _Also read — Solo: A Star Wars Story stumbled at box office, marking the worst debut in franchise history — What went wrong?_ The next Star Wars release looks set to be the ninth episode in the main series, which is slated to hit on 20 December, 2019, directed by JJ Abrams.