As I see it, this is ALL misleading speculations and rumors started by some jerk in the web. Thats something just recently happened with the company I work too. We are a daughter of a big worldwide company. Just around yearchange the later got big troubles with their numbers in their book, wich leaded to big troubles at our company with no longer getting payments from the big one, deliverants getting stopped, loosing customers... just because ALL headlines throughout the media screamed our little companies name in big letters. Thankgoodness we managed to jump of the sinking boat and we start to slowly rise again, but the damage is there.
Same with Star Wars. I for my part like TFA, R1, TLJ and SOLO for what they are, amother chapter in my favourite franchise. Sure, not perfect at some places but NONE of all the movies are. The main reasons why I think Solo did bad at the BO, the bad reputation since announcement from the media. Everywhere you saw something like "only ford can be solo", "director changed, bad idea"... and the folks swallowed and spreaded that far ahead of its release date. sure, me too was shocked when the first pic if the new falcon showed up, but I actually lile it and IMO fits perfectly.
All that "what media say us true" stuff, I really start to use less internet recently. The less you read and learn about certain topics, the better.
Another reason IMO for Solos BOfail, with less than 5 months, it was way to close to TLJ, and surrounded by other big movies like IW, Ready Player One, maybe Tomb Raider too
