Star Wars: Kathleen Kennedy Expected to Retire from Lucasfilm
Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy has presided over Lucasfilm since 2012.
Good riddance
Too late, that entire IP has been dead to me for years.
Somehow, in 2 decades, she comes back.
Because that's just how these kind of stories go.
She's 71 and has been producing films since ET. I'm pretty sure she's not pulling a Palpatine here.
Hey if iron man can be dr doom and Palpatine can suddenly return cause you need a big baddy for a third film, anything can happen in this movie industry.
Maybe one day they will need 91 year old Kathleen to step in and produce Star Babies where they just remake the movies but with magical force babies as the protagonists a-la Baby Geniuses.
I'm not sure anyone in the history of film has been allowed to repeatedly wipe their shitty ass with an iconic beloved franchise as this woman has with Star Wars, even after years of all her decisions literally turning to shit, and turning an entire generation off of a core global property, which needed to be treated with respect and love for it's fans, this woman trashed it, and was allowed to keep trashing it. One of the more amazing business failures I've ever seen.
Don't worry. You'll hate the next one too. Nothing will live up to your standards because they're absurd and what you really want is someone to blame for your frustrations of not being able to be as happy as you remember being at 10 years old watching Star wars for the first time, which no one can live up to.
On one hand I agree with you that especially the Star Wars fan base is full of petulant man children, on the other hand not having a plan and an overarching vision for the sequels and also giving episode 7 to JJ fraudrams to make a fucking cashgrab beat for beat remake with "totally not a death star bro" just to corner the whole trilogy into not being able to do anything creative and then backtracking after episode 8 to birth the irredeemable trash that is episode 9, that shit is just such a huge fuck up, that any other job and you are fired the next day.
I wouldn't call it high standards to ask for them to try harder than this:
Agreed. Not everyone who says the sequel trilogy is bad is an angry little pissbaby, but so many are, and I can't help but think implicit (or, depending on the take, explicit) misogyny plays a role in encouraging that style of "discourse". Like, OPs post is a whisper away from blaming DEI for handing their beloved franchise off to a clueless woman who didn't give the fans the fawning worship that they are owed.
Also, if it worked, her hands off approach to corporate oversight of auteur creatives would be something we'd all be singing her praises for. Of course, it didn't, but I'm not going to sit here and say, hmm yes, I want Disney corporate offices to have MORE control over their creatives, that will fix the lukewarm slop that the franchise is delivering!
Not that I'm mad, but why now?
Probably some big announcement coming in April where it would be obvious she's leaving.
Hopefully they are giving the whole thing to Favreau and Filoni to run.
Not they are without fault, but most of the stuff they made is good stuff (except the boba fett show).
mostly downs