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Kathleen Kennedy Speaks On Her Lucasfilm Plans — She Is Not Soon Retiring — & The Films That Will Keep Her In ‘Star Wars’ Orbit For Years To Come
Kathleen Kennedy Speaks On Her Lucasfilm Future -- She Is Not soon Retiring -- & The Films That Will Keep Her In 'Star Wars' Mode For Years To Come
I didn’t appreciate it when Deadline founder Nikki Finke did it here and it feels like the appetite for schadenfreude is nowhere near as high now, given how this business is still trying to regain footing after the global pandemic, the year long labor strikes, and most recently, the devastating wildfires that ravaged Southern California. Kennedy would seem an unlikely target for ire in good times or bad: 13 years into her run steering Lucasfilm, she has done much with the challenge of trying to broaden George Lucas’ Star Wars vision after Disney bought it from him for $4 billion in cash and stock. And so to analyze and understand what was inspiring George when he created Star Wars, when he was still looking at Saturday matinees and Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, and those are things of the past and politically what he was reflecting in his stories.
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