Who should head of Lucasfilm?

Yes people either forget or conveniently choose not to mention that when talking about this. There is a lot more now to consume than there was during the OT era and even during the Prequel era.

 

Really...

Disney Earned Over $1 Billion from Star Wars Merchandise Last Year

Article from late 2024

 

While it's true that Star Wars doesn't stand out like it once did. In reality though nothing does. Pretty much everyone who likes major brands will have three or four major IP's they follow each year or every other year.

It's a completely different landscape from ever before.

 

Shut it down! Shut it down forever!

 

It will be difficult to replace her. All the great producers have passed. Corman, de Laurentis, Meyer.

The Kaufman and Herz dream team are still alive though. Make the call Walt.

 

Let's not confuse any relative successes that LucasFilm has had under Kennedy's leadership as being something that she accomplished. Star Wars was already the most popular IP in pop culture history, which was something that LucasFilm under George Lucas cultivated for nearly 40 years before handing it off to new ownership. Most of the stories and characters had already been written by others during that time. Kennedy was simply responsible for overseeing the continuation and execution of those stories in this new era. And her supporters will cherry pick any positive thing that happened under her leadership as if she was responsible for it, without acknowledging that those or similar successes would have happened anyway, regardless of who was in charge, and regardless of how badly of a job they were doing, simply because of the Star Wars brand and the team around it and the inevitability that something decent will happen in a ten year time span. Star Wars is always going to make money, it's always going to bring in a new generation of fans who don't have anything else to compare it to, and it's always going to make something popular by simply attaching its name to it. And that is not a result of Kathleen Kennedy's specific leadership.

What I also find interesting any time this discussion comes up is that her supporters will look at any success that LucasFilm had during Kennedy's tenure and give her all or most of the credit for it. But then they don't hesitate to point to this, that, and the other person to blame for its failings during her tenure. It has to be one or the other. Either she is responsible for it or not.

Overall, Kennedy did an objectively poor job as head of LucasFilm. She took the most popular and treasured franchise in pop culture history and turned it into a punchline. Disney purchased Star Wars for four billion dollars a little over a decade ago. It's fair to speculate how much it would sell for today as a direct result of how the franchise has been run since then. No other private industry would look at the job she did in a ten year time span and think that's who they want to continue to running the show. Which if we're being honest, could have been said at the five year mark. The Sequel Trilogy alone should have been enough of a portfolio to determine if this person should continue being in charge, or if it's time to find somebody new to lead the franchise in a different way. Especially considering everything I stated above. And that doesn't mean it would have had to be this ugly transition with Kennedy being tarred and feathered on her way out. Her supporters seem to assume that that's what people want when people call for her to be replaced. But changes of leadership and roles within organizations happen all the time, for a variety of reasons, and people move on. It wouldn't be any different with LucasFilm. Somehow, she has kept her job, which can be attributed to a number of things, and perhaps the few successes under her leadership could be one of those things.

If I may ask her supporters on here, why is Kathleen Kennedy so exempt from being held to the same standards that any other organization would hold their leadership to? Do you genuinely believe that the successes that have happened under her leadership are enough to warrant her continuing to be head of LucasFilm indefinitely? Why do you seem to get so defensive at the idea of her being replaced as head of LucasFilm?

 

If she steps down, it is what it is. Obviously the studio heads thought she did a good enough job to keep her on all this time...

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Please, everyone wanted him to sell the company way before he did and celebrated when he did.

In 1980, it cost less than $5.00 USD to buy Luke Skywalker. In 2025, it costs $25.00 USD. Who wants to spend that much on a figure that doesn't come with a whole bunch of accessories or a vehicle. Hasbro and Takara have to add a bunch of stuff in order to justify their prices on Transformers toys.

 

This is so true...it's amazing how some Star wars fans forget how visceral the hate for the PT was at the time. Yes most people thought he'd salvaged it by episode 3. I think it was a train wreck to many by the time of the sale and for a lot of people TFA saved the IP at the time. But by then you had prequel haters (mostiy disillusioned OT'ers) and sequel haters initially PT kids who felt their story was ignored ... ganging up and not letting the new kids grow up with their stat wars. I loved watching celebration clips of kids running round in cosplay as Rey...so joyous!!! Then Rogue one came out and is still my most joyous experience in a cinema as and adult...
The truth is some would only be ever happy with George in charge.
In answer to the question of mix of any of the three faverau, fieghe filoni should do it

 

What do we suppose could happen to Kathleen Kennedys career if the next Star Wars movie bombs at the box office?

 

I think this settles it:

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

That is pretty much a lie and you probably know it! It’s mostly the other way around. When something was disliked it was KK who was blamed for by the grifters. When the first two Mando seasons dropped it was Favreu who was celebrated and it was even said that it’s good because he was in charge and not Kennedey which is just stupidly wrong in every way. Same with Andor S1: Gilroy was cherished. When Acolyte came people again turned on KK.

 

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

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Now Star Wars is in bigger trouble

 

Good deal. It's finally settled and all this B.S. can just stop. When she decides to leave it will be on her terms.

People need to stop linking to Matt Belloni. The guy just likes to throw shade at individuals he doesn't like. He's not a professional at all.

 

If grifters are worried about continued wokeness and agendas, I think Disney's ceo bob iger did say they are done with it for Star Wars, marvel, Pixar and future fairy tale remakes.

 

What? Hollywood in general is striving to be more inclusive these days. That's not going to change. If that is what people define as being woke and it bothers them that much well they might as well stop watching current movies and TV shows.

 

Also why were we trusting a source called Punk? What happened to only trusting stuff that originates from deadline and Hollywood reporter

 

Puck fights the system. Dukes of Hazzard said that almost every single episode.

 

Thats settled that, lol

 

I remember before Disney buyout when Lucasfilm was pretty much dead brand and now is the most popular

 

Just you wait. Next year we will be getting these same rumors from these 'insiders'. The topic creates too many headlines for them to not run with it. Blasted they will be right someday and they can claim to their subscribers 'I knew all along I knew all along'.

 

She admitted in the interview that she’s stepping down from Lucasfilm this year.

 

She also said she help guide her successor and continue to produce movies like her Star Wars movies.