Lucasfilm
Nice Disturbance in The Pressure …
Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down
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Huge adjustments are underway at Lucasfilm … as a result of studio president Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down after practically 14 years … and George Lucas protege, Dave Filoni, is stepping up because the inventive chief.
Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios introduced the management adjustments Thursday … revealing Lynwen Brennan as the brand new co-president.
Filoni — who labored with George on “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” and helped Jon Favreau launch “The Mandalorian” — will function President and Chief Content material Officer.
Kathleen’s exit is not an enormous shock … it had lengthy been anticipated in Hollywood.
Lucasfilm says Filoni’s “shut collaboration” with George “will carry Lucasfilm into its subsequent chapter of storytelling, with a powerful basis of inventive imaginative and prescient and operational management guiding the studio ahead.”
Kathleen will return to being a film producer full-time, Lucasfilm says, together with the upcoming motion pictures “The Mandalorian and Grogu” and “Star Wars: Starfighter.”
She joined Lucasfilm in 2012 as co-chair alongside George … and some months later, she was promoted to president after Disney shelled out $4 BILLION for Lucasfilm.
