Sure, I do know, you could be skeptical. However very respected Hollywood commerce e-newsletter Puck Information (their e-newsletter and web site have a paywall) broke the story earlier tonight, in keeping with three of their sources Kathleen Kennedy will step down as Lucasfilm president and retire by the top of 2025. Main Hollywood commerce magazines like The Hollywood Reporter are operating the story as nicely, this time it’s apparently for actual! Click on by means of to learn all of it!!!
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In response to Puck Information Kennedy initially already wished to step down on the finish of 2024 and so they even say she had already scheduled an exit interview with a journalist however for causes unknown then determined (or it was determined) on the final minute to postpone her retirement till the top of 2025.
However this time, no less than in keeping with Puck Information, it’s for actual. Numerous mainstream publications are already operating the story as nicely, as a result of Puck Information is, as I mentioned, a really respected commerce e-newsletter that has precise business sources, these usually are not random YouTubers posting rumors. Right here you possibly can learn the story posted on the web site of The Hollywood Reporter, as one of many main Hollywood commerce magazines they’d not run the story in the event that they believed it’s bogus!
In fact the large query now’s… when Kennedy retires on the finish of 2025… what does that imply for her pet challenge(s), primarily, the Rey film? Will it’s shelved? Is she already a lame duck? She actually shouldn’t greenlight any main initiatives anymore when she’s on her means out. Did Disney ask her to remain yet another 12 months to allow them to discover a substitute for her that may really flip the ship round? And who’s the almost certainly candidate for Lucasfilm president? I pray to the gods of leisure that it’s going to not be Dave Filoni. Possibly Jon Favreau? If he’s up for it? He’s extra of a filmmaker and author although. Who would you prefer to see as new Lucasfilm president?
I imagine the timing shouldn’t be coincidental, when Kennedy retires by the top of 2025 the advertising and marketing push for The Mandalorian & Grogu film won’t be impacted by Kennedy nonetheless desirous to make a Rey film, in truth, the film might get a lift, particularly when the individual chosen as her substitute is somebody who has the assist of the followers.
One phrase about Kennedy, as a lot as she was an acclaimed (co/affiliate) producer for numerous Steven Spielberg films and a number of the most beloved films of all time her tenure as Lucasfilm president was very combined at finest, below her reign all of the OT characters have been unceremoniously killed off. She greenlit The Acolyte. Underneath her reign Star Wars has declined tremendously, to the purpose the reveals on Disney+ now fail as nicely. She employed and fired too many individuals. She introduced initiatives that by no means noticed the sunshine of day one too many instances.
She killed and buried Willow for good, she oversaw manufacturing of one of many worst field workplace flops of all time, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, that solely isn’t the most important field workplace bomb of all time as a result of The Marvels failed even tougher. Then The Acolyte occurred and Star Wars hit all-time low on Disney+. Even way more positively acquired Skeleton Crew couldn’t flip issues round and actually failed even tougher than The Acolyte. Star Wars is in disaster mode. Nothing, actually, works anymore. In 2024 all reveals flopped. In 2024 merchandise flopped. In 2024 the large AAA Star Wars online game flopped. Nothing works anymore.
Nonetheless, Kennedy additionally has many accomplishments and he or she is likely one of the most profitable Hollywood film producers ever. It’s unlucky that the previous decade or so was marred by controversy, films that upset followers, with a brief aid offered unexpectedly hit The Mandalorian, considered one of her final actual success tales. However ever since then all of it went downhill. Her retirement is inevitable and the correct resolution. And she will save face, since she was not fired, however I by no means anticipated Disney to really hearth her publicly, they’d all the time permit her to depart with some dignity intact.
The one actual highlights of her Lucasfilm profession are The Pressure Awakens, as a result of it made cash, Rogue One, the one actually good film she ever made as Lucasfilm president, and The Mandalorian. Particularly in newer instances she went from one catastrophe to the following and he or she introduced nonsense initiatives just like the Rey film that puzzled most individuals. My guess is the Rey film is historical past now. It might be for one of the best. Star Wars wants a clear minimize, a restart. And for that you simply want new and higher folks.
However to make one factor clear, changing Kennedy shouldn’t be “it”. For Star Wars to return to type Lucasfilm want to thoroughly rethink their method, the brand new boss completely should not be the identical because the previous boss, to cite some previous track, and there must be nothing sacred or “unimaginable”, the standing of the sequels needs to be mentioned, since they are going to all the time be a significant millstone that have an effect on and probably break all the pieces. A Luke Skywalker Disney+ collection… why hassle when he turns into a suicidal loner hermit who molests harmless sea creatures after which dies from utilizing the Pressure an excessive amount of? Any sequel to the sequels have to be shut down, no matter trilogies they’re eager about at Lucasfilm or Disney should not be linked to Rey or the sequels. They usually have a straightforward means out with Dave Filoni’s “World Between Worlds”.
Star Wars wants to start out from scratch and return to the drafting board. Finish the Excessive Republic. Finish any and all plans Kennedy nonetheless had, particularly that Rey film, however the Mangold film as nicely. Possibly, if they’re fortunate, The Mandalorian film will make financial institution and some of his adventures may help followers go the time, however they completely want a brand new huge trilogy of flicks that has all of the issues folks actually love about Star Wars and that additionally reaches new audiences with out alienating the followers they nonetheless have.
And that is most likely the very, final probability the brand new Lucasfilm president must kindly ask George Lucas for some concepts and coverings they’ll use for future initiatives. And to be critical about it this time.
So merely changing Kennedy won’t clear up any of the problems presently plaguing Star Wars. Star Wars wants a whole overhaul and new starting. The truth is, I imagine Lucasfilm wants a correct home cleansing as nicely. Simply changing the boss won’t be sufficient.
Share your ideas within the feedback! And whereas there isn’t any offcial phrase from Lucasfilm or Disney but (Puck Information tried to get affirmation from them immediately) chances are high that this time it’s really actual. After years and years of rumors Kennedy is on her means out.
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