And Neeson is certainly right, there was “a bit of trouble” with Solo: A Star Wars Story, while the movie wasn’t exactly a flop, it was the lowest-performing of the new crop of films, and it seems clear Disney became much less interested in spinoff films after that. Of course, as with Solo, it is possible to tell a Qui-Gon Jinn story on-screen without Liam Neeson, if anybody was so inclined.
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