Star Wars: Kathleen Kennedy Expected to Retire from Lucasfilm
Star Wars: Kathleen Kennedy Expected to Retire from Lucasfilm
Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy has presided over Lucasfilm since 2012.
Star Wars: Kathleen Kennedy Expected to Retire from Lucasfilm
Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy has presided over Lucasfilm since 2012.
Only thirteen years, a horrid trilogy, and a ruined legacy too late. If she could stay far away from all forms of media, that'd be just fine by me.
You forgot the theme park flop (Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge), and the catastrophic Star Wars hotel (Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser).
Also, it was her direct involvement (read "demands") that ruined the Grogu storyline and forced the shoehorning of The Mandalorian and Grogu into The Book of Boba Fett.
As I was writing the comment, I tried to recount all of the failures under Kennedy's management. I couldn't even remember half of what Disney's churned out over the years, but I'm pretty sure the only two items that didn't suck were Skeleton Crew (which got cancelled) and Andor. Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor too, if we include games.
The power of many
About freaking time. By the way more people need to know how she was involved in killing two children when she was a producer of Twilight Zone movie.
"And somehow she's returned."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxY9zBL_bc
Sungrand made a retirement song for Kathleen
Movies (2 hits, 3 misses):
Animation (4-1-2):
Live Action TV (5-4 if you count each Mando season as its own thing):
So look, I love the animation, but you have to maybe aggregate all them to get one project that's equal in significance to a movie or a season of live-action streaming. By that measure, I'd call her record on actual projects mixed to slightly positive, but the misses, on the films particularly, were so very divisive that regardless of who you really "blame," she was head of Lucasfilm during the period when it lost significant social cachet and market power. I reckon that she doesn't deserve all of the blame, and that Disney thinking they had Space Marvel (and of course Marvel has finally grown pretty stale too) was a huge factor in how they approached schedules, tone, and process. I won't judge too harshly, not knowing what she was up against, but if the best you can say is that it might have been even worse with someone else, that's a pale legacy.
If nothing else, they need new blood with a mandate to re-build the brand and the independence to do it well.
You're not alone on TLJ. I'm not gonna pretend it was perfect, but it's far better then it gets credit for. Imo, it's the best of the sequels.
I'm with you on The Last Jedi. This was a pretty good write up.
I'm always interested to know what people like about TLJ.
To me it just didn't do much of anything.
In my opinion In empire strikes back we see the might of the empire and the stakes of losing. In TLJ, the only thing that really happens is snoke dies. Ben still is evil and wants to rule the galaxy, the resistance is barely getting by, the first order continues to fail to do anything (at least on screen), Rey still has no motivation for doing anything (she does get some development, but it's weak given Rise), and Luke felt like a wasted character.
I appreciate the write up and mostly agree (especially for the animated shows), I have more love for R1 than you seem to but I disagree on E8 or E9, but thats the fun part about subjective film opinions.
I find TLJ/E8 insultingly bad, to me its "attempts to subvert expectations" is the worst case of Disney giving a giant middle finger to IP they have absorbed, and rubbing it in because they own the rights to them. TRoS/E9 by extension is just sad... Its the prime example of "written by committie". Bringing JJ back to save a sinking ship without a captian almost worked, but the scars of post production changes and a non-functional conculsion left me in that same nostalgic rut that the sequal trilogy started in.
Heres to hope that Andor S2 respects the audience, and its setting as much as S1 did.
Realistically though, who is righting the ship? Can the ship even be saved at this point? I feel like Star Wars is a remarkably small and boring sci-fi universe in comparison to what's come after it.
But hear me out...what if took all the characters you already know and made a prequel from their college days when they were all roommates. It will be set on Tatooine.
StarWars is a simple self contained classic heroes journey with a beginning middle and end about Good Vs Evil.
A New Hope
tonight we FEAST!
Goddamn finally!
i cannot begin to describe how happy i am to hear this news.
Kathleen Skywalker
More like Kathleen Palpatine, also known as Darth Kennedy.
If Kathleen is Palpatine, George Lucas is Darth Plagueis.
Will be replaced by J.J.Abrams.
Thank the force
Made a mint mishandling sonething beautiful. Business as usual in the entertainment industry.