The Sith’s Rule of Two states that there should all the time be a grasp and an apprentice. One embodies the ability whereas the opposite craves it. Seems studio executives function in a fashion not too completely different from the Sith, as the present head of Lucasfilm is about to step down and get replaced by the obvious attainable alternative. An inheritor obvious rises to rule the galaxy’s value of IP.
In line with insider publication Puck Information, Kathleen Kennedy will step down from her place atop Lucasfilm and shall be changed by the workforce of Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan, the latter of whom will maintain the function of co-president and oversee the enterprise aspect of Lucasfilm. A longtime Star Wars inventive, Filoni is finest identified for The Clone Wars animated sequence that ran between 2013 and 2020, in addition to his newer work on The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Star Wars: The Unhealthy Batch. Filoni can be co-writing the upcoming film The Mandalorian and Grogu, together with the movie’s director Jon Favreau.
Though the change in management has not but been confirmed by Disney, changing Kennedy with Filoni just isn’t a shock. Studies that Kennedy deliberate to retire on the finish of 2025 have been circling since 2024, shortly after Filoni was promoted to chief inventive officer at Lucasfilm. A profitable producer who co-founded Amblin Leisure with Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall, Kennedy has been serving as president of Lucasfilm since Disney acquired the corporate from George Lucas in 2012.
Underneath Kennedy’s stewardship, Star Wars noticed some excessive factors, such because the financially and (initially) critically profitable sequel trilogy and TV exhibits similar to The Mandalorian and Andor. Nonetheless, between a glut of mediocre streaming sequence, the mess that was The Rise of Skywalker, and a reevaluation of the prequel trilogy, followers have grown typically dissatisfied with Kennedy’s strategy to the model.
