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Is Kathleen Kennedy’s Star Wars Empire Ending?
The Lucasfilm succession plan has enough conflict for an opening crawl.
Puck and Deadline, two sites that pride themselves on being able to publish insider information before the traditional trades get to it, can’t seem to agree on whether or not the current president of Lucasfilm who runs point on Star Wars, Kathleen Kennedy, is leaving the role. “Deadline’s Mike Fleming, who never saw a movie producer’s anal cavity he couldn’t burrow inside, did a hilariously sycophantic interview with Kathleen Kennedy after I broke the news on Monday that the Lucasfilm president will announce her exit by the end of the year,” Puck’s Matt Belloni wrote in his February 28 newsletter. “Ask a top creator about their experience working with Lucasfilm, and you’ll likely get an earful: unclear direction, paralyzed decision-making, extreme aversion to creative risks yet also slavish devotion to a fan base that has become increasingly toxic,” he wrote in his report on Kennedy’s departure.
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