According to Puck News, Lucasfilm is about to undergo a major management shakeup with Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan jointly replacing Kathleen Kennedy. After stepping down as Lucasfilm president, Kennedy will remain as a producer, a role for which George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have lauded her.
"When it was announced that Kathleen Kennedy was making a “succession plan” as she prepared to leave Lucasfilm and Star Wars, it seemed like there was probably only one person who would fill her shoes. Now, technically, there are two, but yes, he’s one of them.
That would be Dave Filoni. A new report from the reliable Puck News says that Filoni is about to be tapped as co-president to run the creative side of Lucasfilm, ie. all of Star Wars. His fellow co-president would be Lynwen Brennan, who would be on the executive side. Filoni is currently the chief creative officer of Lucasfilm, while Brennan is general manager. But for the big moves, it seems it will fall to Filoni.
Kathleen Kennedy is often painted as a villain for greenlighting the Star Wars projects that fans have not liked in the Disney era. Though few may realize that she was also the one pushing for a show like Andor, back when that seemed like a long shot.
The current state of Disney Star Wars is so scattered that it’s hard to even know what would happen under Filoni. Ahsoka is the only Disney+ show confirmed to even be coming back, with everything else either cancelled, finished or a one-off. The big return to Star Wars movies is a spin-off of a TV show. After that, there are more potentially interesting projects like Ryan Gosling’s Starfighter and the James Mangold-directed Dawn of the Jedi, which still exists at this point, with a graveyard of other cancelled Star Wars films behind it."
The Mandalorian and Grogu hit the big screen on 22nd May, and Ahsoka season two is coming later this year on Disney+. For over half a decade, Star Wars has been on the small screen with animated and live-action spin-off series on Disney+. Will The Mandalorian and Grogu be more than a feature-length episode that should have been released on Disney+, making way for Star Wars: Starfighter to blast onto the big screen for the 50th anniversary of the franchise in 2027?
What are your thoughts on the succession at Lucasfilm, which has yet to be officially confirmed? Let me know in the comments below.
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