While Solo: A Star Wars Story still made good money in an absolute sense, it still didn’t make nearly as much money as the other new films have done, and its behind the scenes issues made the film more expensive than it was supposed to be, resulting in the first Star Wars film to reportedly lose money.
It’s hard to imagine that this response from Kennedy in Vanity Fair isn’t a direct response to the fact that the last Star Wars movie, a film designed around a set of characters picked out from the franchise, didn’t do well.