Crime Star Wars legend Kathleen Kennedy ‘expected to retire’ later this year - Producer has been instrumental in shaping the franchise for more than a decade.

UPDATE: Complete fabrication! She is just choosing a succession plan for many years down the road. But she will NEVER RETIRE FROM MAKING MOVIES BISH!

https://deadline.com/2025/02/kathleen-kennedy-clarifies-lucasfilm-exit-star-wars-future-1236304421/

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Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy is set to step down from her role as overseer of the Star Wars franchise, according to new reports.

Kennedy joined the production company, which was founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas, in 2012 in the role of co-chair, alongside director Lucas.

Just a few months later, Lucas sold the company to Disney for $4bn and Kennedy was promoted to the role of president.

But film industry newsletter Puck reported on Monday (24 February) that Kennedy, 71, has told colleagues that she will retire by the end of 2025.

The Independent has contacted Lucasfilm for further comment.

The producer, who previously worked with Steven Spielberg on films including ET, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List, oversaw the relaunch of the Star Wars franchise, kicking off with the release of seventh movie The Force Awakens in 2015.

The Force Awakens, directed by JJ Abrams was a huge box office success, grossing more than $2bn around the world, and also received a generally positive response from the film series’ legions of fans.

Disney went on to rapidly expand the franchise, releasing one film a year until 2019, including spin-off movies such as 2016’s Rogue One and 2018’s Solo, as well as Star Wars TV shows including The Mandalorian.

However, Kennedy’s tenure at Lucasfilm was not entirely straightforward. Both Rogue One and Solo had complex journeys to the big screen, with the former reportedly requiring extensive reshoots.

Kennedy also fired Solo’s original directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord while the Han Solo origin story movie was in production, eventually replacing him with Ron Howard.

As the franchise quickly grew, with the arrival of a slew of streaming spin-offs, some Star Wars fans seemed concerned that this speedy expansion was diluting the magic of the galaxy far, far away.

Various other projects, including a film trilogy from Game of Thrones screenwriters David Benioff and DB Weiss and another from The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, failed to materialise.

The next Star Wars movie will be The Mandalorian and Grogu, which will debut in May 2026, marking the franchise’s first big screen release since The Rise of Skywalker, the concluding part of the reboot trilogy, arrived in December 2019

 

[Not Really Here]

Can you explain the entire context of what this refers to for someone who hasn't been following Kathleen-era star wars at all? To elaborate what that entails
>Who is Doomcock
>Did they really dedicate a full-budget production to fighting a stand-in of Doomcock
>Which are the obvious similarities between this stand-in and Doomcock?

Overlord DVD is a self-styled 'media critic' comedic acting as a wizard or some shit, from another dimension, trapped near the Earth's core, and forced to watch the dreck of modern content. He entered the YouTube nerdsphere during the sequel era nerdrage. He used the short lived 'Phandom Menace' hashtag created by WorldClassBullshitters, and used incorrectly to currently refer to all nerd media whining channels.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

You know what really tells on the drop from the Prequels to the Sequels? Kids. Call them shit or not kids sure loved the prequels, they loved podracing and love clone troopers and even a few liked fucking Jar Jar. Where is any of that joy for the sequels in Gen A? There really doesn’t seem to be any it’s all older fuckers being cringey about baby Yoda. Even Ewan McGregor and Hayden fighting again didn‘t bring much hype. Say what you want about Lucas but he knew how to foster consumerism in the kiddies.

 

[TowinKarz]

You know what really tells on the drop from the Prequels to the Sequels? Kids. Call them shit or not kids sure loved the prequels, they loved podracing and love clone troopers and even a few liked fucking Jar Jar. Where is any of that joy for the sequels in Gen A? There really doesn’t seem to be any it’s all older fuckers being cringey about baby Yoda. Even Ewan McGregor and Hayden fighting again didn‘t bring much hype. Say what you want about Lucas but he knew how to foster consumerism in the kiddies.

They failed the handoff to the nex generation for sure, leaving only aging consoomer 40-somethings behind. Any new blood they've attracted have been dangerhairs and genderblobs who have no spending power, certainly no kids, and will eventually find a reason to dismiss the franchise anyway for either being "too problematic" or, not problematic enough to own the racists and haters.

Disney could've kept kids interested if they'd actually continued making the series about adventure and cool things instead of gender politics and girlbosses.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Star Wars is very thoroughly dead even for normies. the only Star Wars media that's attracted any positive attention in recent years is the Mandalorian and Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games. the sequel trilogy landed like a wet fart, as did Rogue One and Solo. The Acolyte was widely mocked as one of the worst shows in modern television. totally separate from the creative death of the franchise, which was set in stone the moment Disney acquired it, Kathleen Kennedy has fundamentally failed in her task to maintain its profitability. but she still gets to take her money bags and go home at the ripe old age of 71 while being fellated by the press as a "legend". the only notable part of her legacy is mother fucking baby Yoda, the 2020s equivalent of the Ally McBeal Dancing Baby, who is now finally on his way to the big screen. I, for one, can't wait for the bombs to fall.



the two sequel films are notably omitted here because the series' earnings fell precipitously after the first ($1.3bn and $1bn respectively). the first film's sales were massively buffeted by fans' existing loyalty to the franchise, which it also single-handedly started the destruction of, lmao. you would be hard-pressed to find a die-hard Star Wars fan among millennials or zoomers the way they existed among the boomers and gen Xers before this shit.

Actually Baby Yoda was NOT KK's doing. He was created independently from KK by the makers of Mandalorian, which pissed her the fuck off especially after she tried to make the character female via executive fiat because fuck you for making the only commercially success sequel character make, only for the showrunners to openly say "ignore KK, he's CIS gender make". Which in turn led to KK to conspire to flip Pedro Pascal to her side against the Mandalorian showrunners to try to pervert the show to KK's will.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

The sequels are so bad, that I can't remember a single meme that came out of them.

That's how much they suck.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

The sequels are so bad, that I can't remember a single meme that came out of them.

That's how much they suck.

I dunno, the blue milk thing? Luke chucking the lightsaber? Kylo Ren screaming more? “I don’t care if you win, I just need him to lose.”? That‘s more than I thought I could remember.

 

[TenMilesWide]

The sequels are so bad, that I can't remember a single meme that came out of them.

That's how much they suck.

"a good question for another time" and "somehow palpatine has returned" have seen more traction than I would've expected

 

[MirrorNoir]

Dude was a middle aged boomer with like 20k views and he managed to piss off Disney and jewwood so hard they dedicated a 100$ million dollar failed show to fight him.
I'd gloat too.
I hope Null gets parodied on some shit on Netflix soon, that'd be cool.

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Need some context for the pick on the left....

 

[Safir]

If you'd told me 20 years ago that Disney would buy both Star Wars and Marvel and then piledrive both through the Earth's crust I'd suggest you lay off the hard stuff.

The Marvel boom always had an expiration date. First there was a dark and gritty Batman to make soyboys cry "capeshit can be art", Marvel realized it wouldn't last and it'd be retarded to compete, and went with a smarmy Joe Sweden alternative.

But, to draw in normies of all ages, they didn't go with the classic capeshit pattern. They went with a mango or D&D campaign escalation. The >implication was always that it'd end. And it ended, and was hugely successful.

A printed comic book for children could get rebooted for a new generation of children. But to reboot the movies, the newly born children aren't enough, they need a parallel Earth where no one has seen a Marvel movie. Also, the movies still exist, children can watch them.

Now Star Wars is different. As Star Wars fans can tell, Lucas developed a multi-genre setting that's basically retrofuturist spaaaaaaace with laser swords, it doesn't need to be rebooted, and you can mine oldtimey fiction for content if you run out of proprietary stuff. What did the rat do? They fucking rebooted it, the absolute niggers.

The tldr is the rat butchered a cash cow with Star Wars and exhausted a gold mine with Marvel. The latter is normal.

 

[grump]

More proof, as if we needed any that to reach the highest levels sometimes its just right place right time rather than a lifetime of hardwork or talent. She was probably good at getting Spielberg and Lucas coffee and filing their papers and maybe some other extracurricular duties along with the Holyweird zeitgeist that more people with vaginas were needed in high office. Then bam she's the Supreme Dictator for some of the most popular and influential franchises in the world having final say over writing decisions and plot points that millions of hipster pseudonerds will memorize like monks would memorize lines of prayer in bygone ages. Nevermind that she's a bureaucrat through and through with the imagination of a thumbtack.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I dunno, the blue milk thing? Luke chucking the lightsaber? Kylo Ren screaming more? “I don’t care if you win, I just need him to lose.”? That‘s more than I thought I could remember.

"a good question for another time" and "somehow palpatine has returned" have seen more traction than I would've expected

I think I got PTSD from watching The Last Jedi and Han Solo, that I just erased SW from my mind.

Expect for prequel memes.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

I think I got PTSD from watching The Last Jedi and Han Solo, that I just erased SW from my mind.

Expect for prequel memes.

Them’s the breaks.

 

[Echo_Doge]

Looking at those pictures from the article, I suddenly realized who this bitch reminds me of: Kamala Harris.

Including all the signs of being a psychopath that Harris has. Same faked, soulless smile. Same psychotic cackling. Same resting-bitch-face.

It only happened because Lucas was such a sheltered and naïve dunderhead he thought his "friends" he was selling to actually cared about his vision. A less foolish person would've rightly said no.

I'm convinced that Lucas sold to Disney out of spite because of his bruised ego. He couldn't take criticism and hated being mocked for bad creative choices.

He was particularly unable to get over people hating his "break-out-character" Jar Jar, being annoyed by Kid Anakin, and finding his "serious" dialogue laughably bad. And universally hating all the changes he made in the Special Edition.

I remember some interviewers innocently asking him about these and he immediately got so pissed that he almost walked out of the interview.

It's a shame that he focused on that rather than the stuff he introduced that people liked, such as Darth Maul, Pod Racing, Mace Windu, Order 66, ect.

Even his “failures” like the prequels were massive box office successes that spawned dozens of books and billions dollars worth of merchandise.

And the memes. The prequels are a fountain of memes that are still used today.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

Which capable male would be insane enough to step in to clean up the mess made by this trollbog? That's an impossible task, especially when the rest of the studio is staffed by her minions.

More likely, a younger and even more incompetent POC lesbian female would step into her shoes.

 

[Chuck McGill]

You know what really tells on the drop from the Prequels to the Sequels? Kids. Call them shit or not kids sure loved the prequels, they loved podracing and love clone troopers and even a few liked fucking Jar Jar. Where is any of that joy for the sequels in Gen A? There really doesn’t seem to be any it’s all older fuckers being cringey about baby Yoda. Even Ewan McGregor and Hayden fighting again didn‘t bring much hype. Say what you want about Lucas but he knew how to foster consumerism in the kiddies.

Every now and again the Sequel trilogy shills will try to argue "people didn't like the prequels when they came out tooooooo!" Which is absolutely true, but they were getting just as much love. Toys were flying off the shelves, the games were doing numbers, people were talking about them. Even as a point of frustration, people were talking about them. Most of the prequel haters don't actually hate the prequels, they hate how close yet how far they were.

The Sequel Trilogy by comparison, was dead on arrival. Nobody cares about Rey, nobody cares about BB-8. Any momentum they got was borrowed by bigger names from earlier, better installments. People remember R2-D2. They remember Luke Skywalker. Hell, they even remember little bit characters like Boba Fett or IG-88. Meanwhile, you probably already forgot the name of that one admiral lady that was the focal point of TLJ.

 

[Fapcop]

He was particularly unable to get over people hating his "break-out-character" Jar Jar, being annoyed by Kid Anakin, and finding his "serious" dialogue laughably bad. And universally hating all the changes he made in the Special Edition.

Meh… I think GL’s explanation for selling makes perfect sense. He’s gettin older, and he’d rather spent time with his new kid, than work 60 hours a week ob a trilogy for three or four years.

Especially when Disney came along and went: “Oh yeah, we’ll totally use your ideas for a sequel! Ain’t no Star Wars without ol’ George as they say!”

As for JarJar? Yeah, not the greatest character. Kids seem to like him though, so I guess there’s that.

Toys were flying off the shelves, the games were doing numbers, people were talking about them. Even as a point of frustration, people were talking about them. Most of the prequel haters don't actually hate the prequels, they hate how close yet how far they were.

It was only a few years after they came out that the prequel hate really started.

And most people hated on them because well… They weren’t the OT or the SW they had imagined in their heads.

Were they perfect movies? Nah, but they stood the test of time. (Shit, I still see clips from them used as memes every week.) And they were DIFFERENT from the OT while still referencing them. (Whereas the ST was just a hackneyed remake of what came before.)

Some of the reasons for hating on them were pretty silly tbh. Like complaining about cringe dialogue lines in a movie meant to imitate Flash Gordon and 1940’ies serial drama. (FFS, you expect mature, Oscar tier romantic dialogue in a movie with a character named Count Dooku?!?)

Nah, the prequels weren’t as good as the OT (Theres a few thing I really dislike: Like Yoda jumping around like a pinball with a lightsaber or the training stuff) but I appreciate them for what they are, and needless to say: They’re vastly better than the ST.

(And the memes!)

 

[Fapcop]

More likely, a younger and even more incompetent POC lesbian female would step into her shoes.

Well, there’s that Lesley Headland broad.

I think she proved that she can follow KK’s footsteps, when she spent over 200 million dollars on four hours of a really shitty SW show that nobody liked.

 

[Echo_Doge]

Which capable male would be insane enough to step in to clean up the mess made by this trollbog? That's an impossible task, especially when the rest of the studio is staffed by her minions.

More likely, a younger and even more incompetent POC lesbian female would step into her shoes.

Yep. If she's actually retiring and not "retiring", she probably has the studios filled to the brim with her girlboss underlings and has likely picked an awful successor.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

It was only a few years after they came out that the prequel hate really started.

if by "years" you mean "minutes", then yes
my peers and I were dumping on Ep 1 and the endless nascar bullshit featuring dip and shit the announcer twins that very night

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Hey fuck it, Grey’s Anatomy has to be over by now. Get Shonda Rimes to spearhead the next arc of Star Wars.