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Kathleen Kennedy reportedly out at LucasFilm [Update: Official]
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Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Why not make Dave full president instead of this co-president bullshit.
This is Lynwen Brennan:
Hopefully she's not a "The Force is Female" type.
This is Lynwen Brennan:
Hopefully she's not a "The Force is Female" type.
Cyberpunkd
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bitbydeath
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JimmyRustler
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Everyone seems to say that but I don't believe it. One really good Star Wars movie and everyone's on board again. Like when they first did Mandalorian (until they screwed that one up as well of course).
VulcanRaven
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Unknown Soldier
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Hard to believe they waited until the franchise was completely destroyed before finally taking action on this
Relatively little web presence on her. A business manager who became head of ILM in 2009.Why not make Dave full president instead of this co-president bullshit.
This is Lynwen Brennan:
Hopefully she's not a "The Force is Female" type.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
I hope you're right chief:
Lynwen Brennan Interview | Lucasfilm.com
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Lucasfilm.com spotlights executive vice president and general manager Lynwen Brennan.
www.lucasfilm.com
Unknown Soldier
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I'm not so sure. All generations who grew up after the Disney Era began no longer idolize the franchise the way previous generations did. Disney basically made Star Wars irrelevant to the Zoomers and the Alphas and also drove away most of the Millennials and GenX while they were at it. Star Wars just doesn't have the iconic franchise power it once did, people won't come back unless there is a good reason to
If Disney were to "re-canonize" the old EU and adapt Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy as a replacement for the disastrous Disney Sequel Trilogy, I might take a look. Otherwise Star Wars is dead to me
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
This. It's crazy that anyone gives a fuck at this point.
0neAnd0nly
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I bet if you think really, really hard you will figure it out.
Baemono
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Same energy.
willothedog
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I hope you're right chief:
Lynwen Brennan Interview | Lucasfilm.com
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Lucasfilm.com spotlights executive vice president and general manager Lynwen Brennan.
Hmm. Uh-oh.
Article: Lynwen, who has worked for the ground-breaking and blockbuster-producing company for almost 20 years seeing the likes of Star Wars spin-offs and sequels created, Marvel's superhero universe brought to life and the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park resurrected, wants more girls to know that the world of visual effects, film engineering and many other roles behind the camera are not just for computer and maths whizzes.
"We've got a long way to go we're still nowhere near where we need to be," said the mother-of-one whose first foray into the world of visual effects was helping her brother set up Parallax Visual Effects in the 1990s, one of the first films they worked on being Jurassic Park.
Lynwen said: "At Lucasfilm there's always been a great balance in the leadership and one of my favourite things to say is that I was promoted when I was on maternity leave. I felt supported the minute I walked through the door.
"Kathy's [Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm's president] leadership team has always been 50% women because they happen to be the best at their job. We haven't had a quota at that leadership stage, however we are getting a lot more pragmatic and specific about not accepting the level we have regarding women in visual effects and technology.
"At the moment 75% of the people in visual effects are men and that's unacceptable. Our ratio at ILM is better than that, but it's still not enough."
Roufianos
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What do you think? Just looking at her hahaha.Why not make Dave full president instead of this co-president bullshit.
This is Lynwen Brennan:
Hopefully she's not a "The Force is Female" type.
It's amazing that a publicly traded company like Disney isn't in breach of fiduciary duty by allowing someone as incompetent as Kennedy in charge of a multi-billion-dollar department all these years. Woke crap aside, the amount of failed projects is outstanding.
John Bilbo
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Somehow Palpatine returned!
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Either Kathleen's remit was so absurdly bloated that it genuinely takes two people to fill the shoes.
Or Kathleen damaged the Lucasfilm brand so catastrophically that it now takes two people to unfuck what she did, because creatively she torched franchise and alienated shitloads of fans.
Or it's because they want each president focusing on what they're "good" at, but the real reason for the co-president arrangement is "equity", plus KK leaving herself a backdoor into Lucasfilm.
I'm obviously heavily leaning toward the latter two.
My main worry with co-presidents at Lucasfilm is the potential power struggle. Filoni's an old-school George Lucas diehard. Lynwen reads like a Kathleen acolyte wannabe. Sure, Filoni gets "creative" and Lynwen gets "executive", but that split is exactly how you potentially end up with endless internal friction and corporate wrangling strangling the creative side.
I would've preferred Filoni as President, full stop, with actual exec officers and managers underneath him to handle the operational C-suite grunt work and mentorship. Not a co-president arrangement that screams "compromise" and good optics for the DEI crowd.
Anyway, I'm grateful KK gave us two seasons of Andor, so that's something.
Dacvak
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Boy, it would be really cool if we somehow got a good Star Wars movie again.
I was watching some making-ofs of the original trilogy, and it was just incredible how much vision and passion there was. Wouldn't it be great to return to that?
I was watching some making-ofs of the original trilogy, and it was just incredible how much vision and passion there was. Wouldn't it be great to return to that?
JimmyRustler
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Nothing has staying power any more these days. But that also means that people forget real fast. Rogue One was a good return to form. If they'd have kept this level all the screw up from the new trilogy would have already been forgotten.
Goalus
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I would prefer a fan-made AI movie to anything from Disney to be honest.
wipeout364
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I suppose it is possible that Filoni did not want the president job. There is probably a lot of bullshit that would take him out of the creative role he actually really seems to love.
If the split is just so he can oversee creative work and leave all the HR, accounting, negotiating stuff, day to day operations to this other person that might be a dream job for him.
If the split is just so he can oversee creative work and leave all the HR, accounting, negotiating stuff, day to day operations to this other person that might be a dream job for him.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Yeah, same. We're actually starting to (already) creep into watchable territory.
Here's hoping we get a proper Zahn sequel trilogy in a similar vein within a few years.
I didn't consider Filoni not actually wanting the job so fair play.
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Laptop1991
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About time, she has ruined everything she has touched in the years she was in charge, i couldn't believe she was one of the producers on Back to the future, must be an alien replacement!.
Little Mac
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It's crazy to me how long she was left in charge. She sunk the ship. It's going to take alot to get old fans back on board.
Badlucktroll
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For me they'd have to do a good trilogy before I'd watch any of it. (Then again I'm the guy that didn't watch Phantom Menace until 10 years after it came out. If it was really good I might consider watching RoS which I skipped.)
Badlucktroll
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maybe they should re do the sequel trilogy with george lucas's original idea and just retcon the sequel trilogy into star wars legends or whatever its called. wasn't it about a trio of teenagers discovering that they can become grey jedi?
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Trilobit
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As long as she's a very business-minded person and doesn't want to meddle in the creative aspects I'm perfectly fine with her. Women are as capable as men. It's when they are feminists and start green lighting "female power" type of movies instead of being interested in telling good stories that I shudder. But I think I would rather have seen Favreau instead of Filoni. Filoni is too obsessed with his animated era characters, who honestly made The Mandalorian suck.
DarkShadowXI
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I can't believe that Star Wars is pretty much dead to me now.
It was one of my favorite franchises of all time for more than half my life.
I still get excited when I hear about something, but end up passing on it. It's just so disheartening, man.
It was one of my favorite franchises of all time for more than half my life.
I still get excited when I hear about something, but end up passing on it. It's just so disheartening, man.
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Didnt we have this news months ago and it was bs? Anyway as I said in a different thread, I think SW is already slowly healing regardless who is in charge. Andor, Mandalorian movie, Ryan Goslin one, new kotor game, etc. Ofc we still have to see them to believe it, but yeah.
MayauMiao
Member
Why not make Dave full president instead of this co-president bullshit.
This is Lynwen Brennan:
Hopefully she's not a "The Force is Female" type.
Basically a Concord 2.0.
Dural
Member
She was a producer on countless classics. Makes me think she really did nothing and was either just friends (or fuck buddies) with Spielberg or was wealthy and helped pay for the movies.
