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

 

[Fapcop]

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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Wonder what that weirdo with the “secret insider scoop” on Disney will say?

Not Doomcock. There’s this other dude with a YouTube channel that’s basically dedicated to: “Kathleen Kennedy is getting FIRED! Filoni can FINALLY fix Star Wars!”-videos every single week.

And for anyone considering even spending a cent with Disney and their halfassed version of Star Wars, check out this story:

https://www.piratesandprincesses.net/new-lawsuit-accuses-disney-of-religious-descrimination/

TLDR: 20+ year veteran cast member in a Disney park got harassed on an internal messaging app by some fags for being Christian. Disney fired her.

 

[TenMilesWide]

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.

Funny part imo is the pre-CCA golden age comics were gritty enough for an adult to enjoy and also followed that manga/d&d campaign escalation - characters had real arcs that came to satisfying conclusions, and the stories actually ended. Cowboy and modern war comics were able to handle grit and realism better and were gaining in popularity so publishers were happy to wrap their capeshit up in a neat little bow.
Then the CCA moral rules entrenched american comics as a genre for silly campy kids' stories ONLY, forcing capeshit back into the spotlight as rebooted in its now-classic form.

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.

And yeah this is the important difference - by the time the kids who enjoyed those campy silver-age stories grew up and started demanding more realism in their funny books they couldn't just go back and read the golden age material - very few surviving copies, mostly recycled for pulp or burned - so the writers just rolled in more mature themes going forward. And when that audience grew up a little more and wanted to introduce their kids to the books, the publishers had to reboot some of the darker elements out. The movies don't need any of that bullshit, they're still right there.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Much of the complaints about her was actually just doing hatchet jobs for the mouse.

Still everyone responsible for episode IX deserved the guillotine so its good to see one at least forced out of her job.

 

[Would]

I remember watching Last Jedi in the theatre and being visibly disgusted.

I had a great time.
Got forced to attend the midnight release chaperoning my younger sister whose nerd boyfriend's idea of a date was Star Wars.
Seeing all the 30+ year old manchildren melt down and throw popcorn as their hero Luke drank alien splooge and smiled, tossed his heckin' lightsaber like trash, Leia pull a Mary Poppins that made me heave, and the old boss bitch pull a suicide dive that defies all coherence was a blast. Would watch in theaters again.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

suicide dive that defies all coherence was a blast

I liked it. Yeah yeah Star Wars ‘doesn’t work like that’ but it was visually cool and the amount of kvetching from the retards who need EVERY FUCKING INCONSISTENCY EXPLAINED IN MINDNUMBING DIATRIBES was peak hilarity.

 

[TowinKarz]

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.

That's probably all true.

But he was still a fool to sell to Disney and think the little Post-it note he stuck to the top of the IP that said "Here's a rough outline of how the last 3 episdodes will go to stay coherent with established canon, call me if you have questions" was gonna mean ANYTHING when the jackals in the DEI-filled board rooms got their hands on it.

He was actually legitimately shocked when the sequels came out and showed they hadn't listened to a thing he said.

Which is when he made his infamously memetic interview where he decided to equate the sale of Star Wars to selling your kids into white slavery.....

 

[Snekposter]

Are you all ready to enter into the undiluted, unchecked autism of the Filoniverse?

Furloni you mean, given he's got a bigger hardon for wolves than whoever writes the Space Wolf codices these days.

a suicide dive that defies all coherence

Man, I had completely forgotten that cunt's name until you mentioned the Holdo Maneuver.

 

[AllieKat]

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

That's how much they suck.

The only nu SW memes I remember are the ones about lynching Finn or Kylo Ren yelling nigger

 

[Smar Mijou]

She's a legendary fuck up. Won't break my heart to never hear her name again.

I don't think anyone in the history of cinema has ever tanked such a massive IP, or actually an entire studio now that I think about it. Usually there are epic disasters that might tank a small studio, or tarnish a brand, but thus cunt has literally been allowed to destroy multiple profitable IPs, and was allowed to do it for an entire decade+. Now that Disney doesn't have infinity DEIbux to shovel in the burn barrel, they can finally let this "legend" go.

The best part of the entire KK Katastrophe by far, has been the rise of people like Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker who make a living off of blasting their stupidity every chance they get.

 

[Echo_Doge]

But he was still a fool to sell to Disney and think the little Post-it note he stuck to the top of the IP that said "Here's a rough outline of how the last 3 episdodes will go to stay coherent with established canon, call me if you have questions" was gonna mean ANYTHING when the jackals in the DEI-filled board rooms got their hands on it.

He was an idiot for not getting something in an ironclad contract that bound them to to his "Loose outline for the sequels" in any way. Because they wanted to cut him out completely.

There are a lot of rumors about what was in the massive contract selling to Disney. It's hard to tell what's actually true because the majority of the contract is kept under wraps by lawyers, but...

The most widely believed rumors are that major, direct changes to the Original Trilogy canon must be approved by him and that he gets minor royalties when things from the original trilogy are used.

And there are rumors that due to publishing companies and such, they might have to pay Extended Universe writers ("Legends" now) royalties for using ideas/characters from their works.

So to avoid this, they want to be rid of all of that. They want to make stuff after the Original Trilogy and before the prequels with all original Disney-made characters.

It's no accident that each movie killed off one of his iconic hero trio and that they completely ignored almost the entire EU.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Although I'm not sure if she had any involvement with this, the fact that the Disney Sequels were the setting for one of the worst DLCs ever released for The Sims 4 says a lot:



It was so on-rails, that you couldn't even romance with Rey or Kylo unless you used mods, which would have been a big selling point for the pack.

 

[Positron]

Gail Simone. The people who says Kennedy's successor will be worse are right on the money.

 

[Soup Sammiches]

That's not how you spell bellend.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

He was an idiot for not getting something in an ironclad contract that bound them to to his "Loose outline for the sequels" in any way. Because they wanted to cut him out completely.

There are a lot of rumors about what was in the massive contract selling to Disney. It's hard to tell what's actually true because the majority of the contract is kept under wraps by lawyers, but...

The most widely believed rumors are that major, direct changes to the Original Trilogy canon must be approved by him and that he gets minor royalties when things from the original trilogy are used.

And there are rumors that due to publishing companies and such, they might have to pay Extended Universe writers ("Legends" now) royalties for using ideas/characters from their works.

So to avoid this, they want to be rid of all of that. They want to make stuff after the Original Trilogy and before the prequels with all original Disney-made characters.

It's no accident that each movie killed off one of his iconic hero trio and that they completely ignored almost the entire EU.

That's the part I could never wrap my head around.

They could've handled it with a polished touch. Given the originals a proper passing-of-the-torch plot. Heck, have Luke wryly repeat Obi-Wan's line from ANH: 'I'm getting too old for this sort of thing.'

But instead they pissed all over the big three. But maybe that was the point. 'Disney SW is better than original SW, look how we made your heroes into shit!'.

 

[The Dude]

This bitch spent like twenty five years getting coffee for George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg and picking up their dry cleaning. Then she absolutely fucking ruined everything Lucasfilm had control of. She's no legend. The only thing good that was made while she was in charge was Rogue One and the first two seasons of the Mandalorian, and even they can't hold a candle to what George Lucas made. She absolutely poisoned the largest, most success film franchise in history because she was bitter over all those years of being the errand girl of Lucas and Spielberg, and absolutely tanked her reputation in the process. Good fucking riddance.

 

[Haramburger]

I saw three variations of this article over the course of the day on my work computer, seems like a big push on an otherwise vague year career-wise.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

>71
I had been laughing at her slowly transforming into Brianna Wu, but I had no idea she was so old. She must go to Madonna's plastic surgeon. You'll look decades younger, but also an abomination.

 

[TowinKarz]

>71
I had been laughing at her slowly transforming into Brianna Wu, but I had no idea she was so old. She must go to Madonna's plastic surgeon. You'll look decades younger, but also an abomination.

You eventually end up with that Spirit Halloween rubber mask look that all our Democratic Congresswomen have..... so stunning and brave.

 

[Bonesjones]

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.

It all depends on if Disney is focused on course correction or doubling down on ruining it.

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

Nah they hated them for being silly and nonsensical. The main problem was the writing was lackluster and George thought special effects would cover it up again.

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?!?)

Who was it Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford, who told him, "you can write this shit but you can't say it". The actors in the original had the chance to smooth over the worst of it, even though it left George Seething.

 

[Grub]

I never really cared that much about the sequel movies. I tried watching Episode 7 and fell asleep about a half hour into and haven't watched any Star Wars anything since. I was pretty choked about them getting rid of the EU though. I never read the Star Wars books but I fucking loved the old PC games. The Dark Forces and Kotor games introduced me to the idea of stories and a universe outside the movies with history and everything else a lot more than the prequels did. I only learned a few years ago there were Star Wars comics set at all different points during the Star Wars timeline and some of them were pretty good. Then, I'd get to the abrupt end of a series that would finish with 'well, sorry guys but, Disney owns Star Wars now so Marvel's taking over publishing rights and we will not be finishing our series. Sorry. Too bad. Thanks for reading' and it fucking sucked every time.