Kathleen Kennedy doesn’t retire … by cinema. However, he is looking for possible successors to take care of her in Lucasfilm. That news, and much more, only left a new exclusive interview with the president of Lucasfilm.
Earl this week, the news was leaked that Kennedy could retire from Lucasfilm at the end of 2025. Speaking with DeadlineThe prolific producer did not put a timeline, but confirmed that they are looking at what follows. “I’m not retiring,” Kennedy said. “I will never retire from the movies. I will die making movies. That is the first thing that is important to say. I am not retiring. What is happening in Lucasfilm is that I have been talking for a long time with both [Disney’s] Shilling [Iger] and Alan [Bergman] about how the eventual succession could be. “
“We have been talking about [succession]As I said, without stopping in recent years because for obvious reasons, I will not be here forever, ”he continued. “George [Lucas] He asked me 13 years ago to intervene, and now I am looking at who will replace me. And as I said, we have a people internally to manage the business, the creative side. The work has also grown since I entered. There was no transmission, there were not many things in which we are involved at this time. Then it has grown. “
Kennedy refused to name any of the names of the people he is seeing but who appointed names in terms of the future of Star Wars.
Of course we know that The Mandalorian and Grogu It is the next movie that comes, in 2026. Kennedy confirmed that Shawn Levy’s film (potentially starring Ryan Gosling. Although he did not mention the star) that will follow that. It is an independent film established about five or six years after the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. She is producing both.
Kennedy also said that Simon Kinberg has just started writing films in her trilogy, which she describes as “the next iteration, the new saga that leads us to the future.”
She did not mention the film that would present the return of Daisy Ridley, but said that James Mangold’s film is still in the script stage just like Taika Waititi’s. “I’m still waiting for Taika and now he’s working with another writer,” Kennedy said. “He is so busy. I love him, I think that if we ever get a taika script, it will be fantastic. I already saw a first act that I loved, but tie it is complicated. “
So you have it there. The reports earlier this week … They were not 100% precise but closed. And it seems that we can be listening more about Shawn Levy’s movie in Star Wars Celebration.
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