Who should head of Lucasfilm?

I think that this is likely going to happen when KK finally leaves Lucasfilm.

 

Studios aren't headed for any of that. They have a corporate executive / producer in charge, because that's what the job requires. And below that level, they have some people who fill out the more creative roles. You know, exactly how it is at Lucasfilm right now.

The president of Lucasfilm has basically always been a manager-type, never a creative person. George Lucas wasn't the president of his own company either. I really don't know why people keep ignoring that for their wild fantasy of a Filoni-type person running something that goes completely contrary to his strengths. A company gets run by a person who understands the business side, creative roles tend to be filled with people who have creative talents. You would be sabotaging yourself if you let a creative do the business side when that is something he hasn't done before. You also weaken his creative influence, because he would have hardly any time making decisions on he creative side.

 

Without a doubt Dave Filoni

 

Maybe in five or ten years, but not now.

 

A person who has never produced a film in his life should run Lucasfilm? Interesting.

 

He directed the critically acclaimed clone wars movie

 

He is better at creativity with telling the stories of tv shows and movies. Fans still love him.

 

He has a lot of experience in television. Why can't this count? In addition, he already holds a high position in the company being the chief executive of the entire company and the de facto head of the animation division. This is a good preparation for the future transition to the President role.

When Kevin Feige took over at Marvel Studios, he wasn't very experienced, but then he showed himself well.

All last Walt Disney Studios executives ever make movies credited as producers ? On IMDB, Eisner, Aiger, Chapek have almost no personal credits. But this does not prevent them from leading the company in different years.

Lucasfilm Presidents (era of CEO Lucas) they didn't make films either. Micheline Chau did more marketing and operational work. She had no personal producing credits.

 

He has experience in animation. Favreau is the real force behind the live action tv shows up to this point. We are still waiting to see how the first show turns out that Filoni has largely done on his own (and he still will have no experience in live action movie making).

And Feige had been producing films for a decade prior to working on the MCU.

 

All Star Wars TV series is a TEAM effort. Favreau is the showrunner Mando and TBoBF, but Filoni is still the show's executive producer, one in writers and episodic director. His contribution should not be ignored due to the fact that Favreau worked more on this shows. Measuring the level of participation of Filoni in projects does not cancel his participation in the projects.

If you follow your logic, then Kennedy's production contribution to new films and shows does not matter, and this is all the merit of Abrams, Johnson, Edwards, etc. I could just as well say that Kennedy's entire career is based on collaboration with Spielberg. Because Spielberg had director or EP credit on most of her productions.

But it's all a TEAM effort and contribution all directors/producers/writers was important.

And besides that, Dave was the executive producer (or at least a supervisor) of many other Star Wars shows. Filoni has been in the industry for 20+ years.

And my argument about the heads of Walt Disney Studios? More often than not, they don't have real credits as producers or executive producers. But they were in office.

 

Kennedy put the people together who have made Star Wars content under Disney. When has Filoni done any such thing?

 

There is an example of Walt Disney or Marion Cooper who went from directors to studios executives. And even occupying such a position, you can bring a creative approach and creative ideas to projects. Lucas followed a similar path when from a director he became more of a businessman. Without ceasing to be a creative person at the same time.

And we have examples from music where some artists and composers have become successful label directors.

 

Didn't Filoni manage many people at Lucasfilm Animation? It's "mini-version" of the main Lucasfilm. This work is a help for further improvement. Everyone starts small. The fact that Kennedy was able to gather and organize everyone does not mean that her successor will not be able to do it in the future.

And at the time of the arrival of Kennedy in 2012, Filoni was more immersed in the affairs of the company and in the development of its main franchise, worked with Lucas himself since 2005.

Kennedy may be a more experienced producer in general, but she came to this company later, and was her previously Lucasfilm works associated only with Indiana Jones, but not Star Wars.

And once again, you ignored the fact that Walt Disney studio executives barely produce the studio's films personally, yet they hold the position nonetheless. Why is Filoni weaker than them in the position of a potential head of one of the divisions?

 

I am not ignoring your argument and instead just don't find your argument to be very good.

To say someone should be able to lead a studio such as Lucasfilm who has never even produced a single movie before is a little ridiculous in my opinion.

 

Filoni should have as much influence as possible on the shows and future movies, but I agree we don't want to remove him from the creative side.

 

I'm warming over to Filoni, CW was good.

 

Who should run Lucasfilm?

 

It’s that time of the week where so called leakers claim KK has been fired. These people have probably claimed she’s been fired over 150 times by now. She’s getting up there in years and I would not be surprised if she retires within the next 2-3 years. But when she does they’ll all claim she’s been fired for some reason.

 

If they say it enough times eventually they will be right.

 

A broken clock is right once a decade and a half.

 

Yep we aren't gonna get this lucky.

 

I mean it’s true. She’s 70 something and rich. If I were her I would retire to play with my tens of millions of dollars. Or maybe she loved her job and wants to do it until she’s dead I don’t know.

 

When people (in pretty much any profession) have done something their entire adult lives it's very hard for them to stop. To get to the level that KK has gotten to a person almost has to be a workaholic.