SPECULATION Could Solo be in May as a Cleanser?

@cawatrooper : Just picking up on one point in your original post regarding familiar species. Has it been confirmed there are familiar SW species in Solo? Or is it just familiar alien characters (Chewie) and humans? 'Cuz all I've seen from trailers n pics are new species...

By the way, I think you'r overthinking it

 

You can spot a twi'lek dancer at the "fancy club" bit of the trailer.

 

Ah yes, I forgot about that one Twi'lek.

 

if its good i think it will give the fanbase a much needed lift going into the 18 month break between films.

Everyone seems a bit sick of how things have been since the last Jedi. I hated that film and im so sick of feeling down on the star wars franchise i want to be excited by it again. I also know people who loved the film are sick of all the arguments and negativity that they are facing since the release of episode 8.

So fingers crossed this film kind of lifts everyones sprits and we can sort of take a breath before episode 9.

 

but muh Last Jedi protest!!!!

 

Me and my 5 accounts on YouTube/Rotten Tomatoes disagree!!!!!!!l33t

 

Disney ought to release their new films in August, when most of Europe, a population of over 500 million people, are all (mostly) on holiday and have the free time to watch films inside air-conditioned cinemas and multiplexes out of the hot sun.

May is alright, but there's no "Spring Break" holiday thing in Europe during May. August would be better. (See above)

December is an insane time for a new Star Wars film release, its bloody freezing. everyones busy with Christmas preparations and spending money on Christmas gifts. And skint because of it....

 

But what is the occasion if film set to release in August?
Think of the Christmas time movie as a Christmas gift.

 

August is a time to relax, unwind, have fun, do things you had no time to do in the rest of the year. Schools are on holiday too. It's the hottest, driest month and has very few historic traditions to observe. Few European governments are even active during August as they take a summer break at the same time as schools.

 

@Addi Ras
What has my dislike of TFA, RO and TLJ have to do with a thread about release times for a film? Why must you imply that any opinion that I have be automatically invalid because I disliked a film that you may have enjoyed?

Does my dislike of three terrible Star Wars films (my opinion) from a selection of a dozen Star Wars films automatically make me unworthy from conversing in other topics of conversation? No.

Must I love every single Star Wars film ever made to make a comment here? No.

I do actually like and love more Star Wars films than I dislke or hate. Do you not understand that?

You seem to have a very binary logic if not.

 

I choose not to see Solo because I know how it will end. It's more obvious than the end of "Titanic", because there is already a pre-established canon which they cannot break. So its hardly going to be an original or risky film when you know the main characters Han, Chewie and Lando are going to be alright because they all show up unharmed in the OT.

"Spoiler" (!)

Han Solo meets a wookiee named Chewbacca and they eventually become skipper and co-pilot on a freighter called the Millennium Falcon. They do not die and neither does their friend Lando Calrissian, who Han Solo won the Millenium Falcon from in a game of Sabaac. The ship gets modified by Han Solo with more weapons and is made faster to become the fastest ship in the galaxy. They also do illegal smuggling runs because the Empire has taxed everything to fund their enormous military budget, which spans the entire galaxy. On a run to the Spice Mines of Kessel, they also break the record for navigating the "Kessel Run" in only 12 parsecs to avoid being pursued by the Empire...

And I haven't even SEEN the film.

 

Star Wars used to be released regionally, before internet film piracy made it necessary to release everywhere at the same time to lessen the spread of illegal copies to those still waiting for an opening day.

I still have my opening day TPM tickets from 15 July 1999 in the UK. Which was released two months after the US release on 19 May 1999.