Kathleen KennedyPresident of Lucasfilm for a long time, will leave the company responsible for Star Wars, Indiana Jones and other franchises at the end of 2025.
According to the Variety portal, he intends to retire once he ends his current contract. However, another source close to Kennedy ruled out the report initially published in the Puck portal as “pure speculation” and said nothing has been decided.
Kennedy joined Lucasfilm in 2012 as co -chair along with Star Wars creator, George Lucas. Shortly after, Lucas left his post when Disney He acquired the company for 4,000 million dollars and Kennedy was promoted to president.
The revitalization of the franchise is attributed to him with the launch of the sequel trilogy, starting with Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015, as well as the spin-off acclaimed by the criticism of 2016, Rogue One. Kennedy has also drawn a future for streaming franchise with television series such as The Mandalorian and Andor.
In Lucasfilm, Kennedy also supervised Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), The fifth and final film of the series starring Harrison Ford. The action adventure, which relaunched the franchise after 15 years, was a catastrophic failure. “The dial of destiny” generated 383 million dollars worldwide compared to a budget of 295 million, which finally made it lose around 140 million to the study.
The last years of Star Wars and the lack of premieres in cinemas
Since Skywalker’s rise, Star Wars has had difficulty returning to the big screen, although not due to lack of attempts by studies. In the years since then, Lucasfilm has announced several Star Wars projects of filmmakers such as James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi and Donald Gloverbut none has come to fruition. Meanwhile, the new versions of the Space Opera series of the director of Wonder Woman, Patty JenkinsMarvel producer, Kevin Feigethe director of the last Jedi, Rian Johnsonand the creators of the Game of Thrones, David Benioff and DB WeissThey were filed for various reasons.
Lucasfilm has plans to (eventually) again show up in the movie theaters. The Mandalorian & Grogua continuation of the Disney+ series about hunting with a helmet (played by Pedro Pascal), will be released in cinemas in 2026, while the former “X-Men”, Simon Kinberghe would be developing a new trilogy of “Star Wars.”
Source: Ambito
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