Kathleen Kennedy retiring this year

[RandomHero]

I said "for me"... so technically, you can't disagree. You could disapprove, though.

Fine.

 

[ZE_501]

If Kennedy is truly gone hopefully whoever takes over is wise enough to realise that much of what Disney made, especially the sequel trilogy, needs to be de-canonised for the franchise to move forward. And the franchise needs to move FORWARD. Prequels etc can only get you so far.

Isn't that kinda ... unprecedented? Especially given what they spent on the ST? I think it was ... Ducky ... (??) that kept calling for de-canonisation? I'm not sure it's possible.

 

[jaztermareal]

Isn't that kinda ... unprecedented? Especially given what they spent on the ST? I think it was ... Ducky ... (??) that kept calling for de-canonisation? I'm not sure it's possible.

if decanonisation will result in more money than maintaining the status quo of diminishing returns any non-braindead producer would go with it. Rebooting is not unprecedented, neither is ignoring prior entries. many franchises do it and in this day and age of multiverse franchises the audience is well primed for full or partial reboots


(if they keep the sequels because they invested so much in a dead end that is something known as the sunk cost fallacy, if they adhere to that they deserve to go broke)

 

[ZE_501]

if decanonisation will result in more money than maintaining the status quo of diminishing returns any non-braindead producer would go with it.

You would think so, but I'm not sure how Disney works and how they would ascertain the profitability of such a move.

Rebooting is not unprecedented, neither is ignoring prior entries. many franchises do it and in this day and age of multiverse franchises the audience is well primed for full or partial reboots

Some of the OT cast is dead and the rest are aging fast. But in theory that could be a point in favour of a massive restart. Who knows.

 

[xipotec]

If Kennedy is truly gone hopefully whoever takes over is wise enough to realise that much of what Disney made, especially the sequel trilogy, needs to be de-canonised for the franchise to move forward. And the franchise needs to move FORWARD. Prequels etc can only get you so far.

Just a silly notion.

Never in a million years would they do anything like this....

First off, only nerds seem to care about "cannon" the rest of us just deal with it and move on.

 

[ironwez20]

I mean the st doesn’t sell. They don’t make money. Mando sold during the Disney era plus other Disney plus shows. That’s it. Anything that comes out from the st people wouldn’t care. And no I don’t think kids embraced the movies either because if they did then they’d make more things centered around the ST and its characters. Rey was only in some stupid Lego movie years ago. She’s or none of the other characters are in any st content and no merch is being made from them

So yes it wouldn’t be to crazy if they completely rebooted or rewrote the story. I’m sure only a handful would care

 

[Mondragon]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/media/kathleen-kennedy-star-wars-disney/index.html

I'm sorry to laugh but some have desperately been predicting and celebrating her imminent demise as Disney-Lucasfilm’s president since as far back as TFA -TLJ

She's like the T-1000 to ya'll.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Nudie AI Rey is the only thing that gets passed around out of the ST. I doubt there will even be much of a popularity swing in 20 years when kids that grew up with it actually grow up. I just don't think they'll care enough to make anyone notice.

20 years from now they'll still be talking about the Joker (Ledger) though.

 

[Turtle882]

I get really curious about the age demographics of the board in threads like this. I'm old enough to remember that a ton of older kids thought Ewoks were lame af when RotJ came out. I remember loving the Ewoks movies before hating them. I remember being weirded out by Droids. I remember when the special editions came out and were poorly received. I remember TPM came out and was universally panned. Same for AotC. I remember when Ahsoka in TCW was the worst thing that happened to SW. In 10-15 years, I will remember all of this too. For everyone that thinks SW is irrevocably ruined, this too shall pass.

 

[ZE_501]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/media/kathleen-kennedy-star-wars-disney/index.html

I'm sorry to laugh but some have desperately been predicting and celebrating her imminent demise as Disney-Lucasfilm’s president since TFA.

Somehow Kenn -- ah never mind.

 

[davejames]

Not sure what you guys were looking at, but Rey was a pretty buzzy and popular character after TFA (and not just among little girls). It was only after the third movie completely botched her story that everyone suddenly stopped caring about her.

And I remember there being lots of interest in Poe and Finn as well....until TLJ did nothing interesting with them.

 

[ZE_501]

Not sure what you guys were looking at, but Rey was a pretty buzzy and popular character after TFA (and not just among little girls). It was only after the third movie completely botched her story that everyone suddenly stopped caring about her.

I remember hating Han's death and thinking the script with the even bigger, badder Death Star thing was lame as hell, yet loving some of the design and action sequences, willing to give it a chance. And then the rest happened.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Not sure what you guys were looking at, but Rey was a pretty buzzy and popular character after TFA (and not just among little girls). It was only after the third movie completely botched her story that everyone suddenly stopped caring about her.

Everyone was hyped at first on TFA... but it wore off.

Many things stick on kids... but it mostly wears off quickly. I'm still predicting little fanfare over Disney's ST Star Wars in 2045.

 

[ZE_501]

Everyone was hyped at first on TFA... but it wore off.

Many things stick on kids... but it mostly wears off quickly. I'm still predicting little fanfare over Disney's ST Star Wars in 2045.

With the content glut kids are exposed to now, I think the ST was a spectacle for them but not a magical one.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Too bad if the "firing" turns out to be untrue.

She could go out "on top" with Gilroy's Andor airing too.

But yeah, everyone's right, whoever replaces her will likely be no better, and no savior.... whatever that would be.

 

[pixletwin]

Wow, five pages of discussion already. Clearly she was welll regarded.

 

[ironwez20]

I get really curious about the age demographics of the board in threads like this. I'm old enough to remember that a ton of older kids thought Ewoks were lame af when RotJ came out. I remember loving the Ewoks movies before hating them. I remember being weirded out by Droids. I remember when the special editions came out and were poorly received. I remember TPM came out and was universally panned. Same for AotC. I remember when Ahsoka in TCW was the worst thing that happened to SW. In 10-15 years, I will remember all of this too. For everyone that thinks SW is irrevocably ruined, this too shall pass.

I say this all the time. the difference between then and now is that star wars was everywhere. I grew u in the Pt era. Older dudes hated those movies but we had tons of games, shows and comics that expanded the PT and made it so much better. We had lots of cool stuff back then and it was marketed heavily. THE ONLY thing that compares to that era is baby yoda hype but thats it. Other than that we have zero star wars content like before.

The games are good to meh
toys don't sell
shows always are divisive
movies are divisive.


No matter how bad some think the PT was it did well with us kids at the time.

 

[ironwez20]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/media/kathleen-kennedy-star-wars-disney/index.html

I'm sorry to laugh but some have desperately been predicting and celebrating her imminent demise as Disney-Lucasfilm’s president since as far back as TFA -TLJ

She's like the T-1000 to ya'll.

Lol if she wasn't let go after losing the studio billions then she ain't going anywhere anytime soon. Bring on the Rey film!

 

[ZE_501]

No matter how bad some think the PT was it did well with us kids at the time.

I believe it. There are dudes at work I talk Star Wars with but they're 15, 20 years younger and for them it's a lot of PT.

 

[newapelles]

Not sure what you guys were looking at, but Rey was a pretty buzzy and popular character after TFA (and not just among little girls). It was only after the third movie completely botched her story that everyone suddenly stopped caring about her.

And I remember there being lots of interest in Poe and Finn as well....until TLJ did nothing interesting with them.

I loved Rey in TFA. She was a fresh face, and I found the whole mystery around her parents interesting. TFA was basically a retread of ANH, but it felt great to watch a competently-directed SW movie. I had high hopes that TLJ would expand the ST in exciting ways and take risks- unfortunately, that movie killed all the buzz around the ST for me. It was a massive gut punch. To this day, I feel bad for Daisy Ridley. The ST hampered her career and she's only recently been back in the limelight.

I wish Disney would just make a new ST based around Thrawn. They could easily have the second Ahsoka season lead into it. I really don't understand why Disney refuses to just adapt well-liked EU stories. When they first announced Acolyte, I just assumed it was going to be based on the old Dark Horse Darth Maul comics. How naive of me.