RUMOR - Kathleen Kennedy FIRED from Star Wars!

[moreorless87]

Interesting how the movies that DON'T make a big hoopla over "strong female characters" are usually the ones that actually effortlessly pull them off.

No one ever complains about Ripley, Conner, or Leia

Yeah pretty much, I mean even with Disney Starwars I think it stood out that we didn't get the hype with Rogue One, Hollywood only starts to hype the politics when it thinks the film might not be good enough to sell itself.

These are marketing people who would sell their own mother for a good opening weekend, you think they care about politics?

 

[drstrangelov]

I liked Force Awakens, Last Jedi and Rogue 1. I didn't think the social justice themes were particularly notable in those three, but I generally don't care about these things. Didn't see Solo.

After Ep 9, though, they'll need a full restart anyway, so transitioning the franchise ahead of that makes some sense. Blaming her for DVD sales declining isn't really all that honest, and episode 8 still made a lot of money. Losing money on a Star Wars property is pretty embarrassing any way you look at it though. I don't know if it was blockbuster fatigue after Infinity War or what, but they definitely shouldn't have let that happen. I'll watch when it hits Netflix or the new release menu on a flight.

 

[Lethal]

Good. Get rid of Rian Johnson too while you're at it and their might be hope for this franchise after all.

 

[Organic Damage]

I don't really know if I view Kennedy as an "experiment." As I understand it she was always the next in the line of succession to Lucasfilm. Regardless, man or woman. Who greenlights a script for the second movie in your major blockbuster trilogy, that completely deconstructs everything the first movie tried to set up and leaving nothing to look forward to in the finale?

Not to mention all the divisive politics, directors getting fired and replaced in the middle of production, treating one of the biggest stars of the franchise like shit, lazily rehashing old stuff and dismissing all the fan criticisms as misogyny & racism.

Didn't know Kennedy was the next in line. Wonder how that will effect her putative successor.

As far as the narrative decisions, I assume they "had it all planned out" so I wonder how the reception will affect the ending of the trilogy.

 

[robertcop2]

 

[Deleted member 220895]

Whoever gets put on top needs to hit the eject button on the Boba Fett movie.

 

[moreorless87]

I liked Force Awakens, Last Jedi and Rogue 1. I didn't think the social justice themes were particularly notable in those three, but I generally don't care about these things. Didn't see Solo.

After Ep 9, though, they'll need a full restart anyway, so transitioning the franchise ahead of that makes some sense. Blaming her for DVD sales declining isn't really all that honest, and episode 8 still made a lot of money. Losing money on a Star Wars property is pretty embarrassing any way you look at it though. I don't know if it was blockbuster fatigue after Infinity War or what, but they definitely shouldn't have let that happen. I'll watch when it hits Netflix or the new release menu on a flight.

Sticking to a May release date for SOlo after TLJ was IMHO a massive error, should have put it back to Christmas.

 

[Scerpi]

Saw this on the rumor mill on multiple sites yesterday, and it seems legit and not just wishful thinking.

https://movieweb.com/kathleen-kennedy-leaving-lucasfilm-star-wars/

Disney itself is most likely is releasing these 'rumors' as a mean to guage public reaction before anything is official. Disney is worth a large fraction of a trillion dollars with a sizable PR department, and their higher-ups do not make these decisions on a whim.

For those who are not in-the-know - Kathleen Kennedy is the President of LucasFilm since its been bought off by Disney from George Lucas. She's mostly been held responsible for the decisions that have made infuriated loyal fans of the Star Wars franchise over the last year.

*Hired Rian Johnson to write/direct The Last Jedi, and approved his script for the film.
*Approved the SJW-themes in recent Star Wars movies.
*Joined in the criticisms of fans who criticized the films.
*Her decision to approve the Solo movie's production, and failed to closely monitor it led to its numerous production catastrophies and expensive reshoots - nearly doubling its budget.

And financially -

*Lower sales numbers of Star Wars merchandise/toys than expected.
*Lower BluRay sales of the 3 Disney Star Wars releases than expected.
*Ep8 had the worst 2nd weekend dropoff of any Star Wars movie ever (68%), and brought in $700 million less than Ep7 - FAR less than expected.
*Solo is now expected to raise $80 million less than its estimated production budget - Not including its advertising budget.

But, if the rumor is confirmed to be true - there's also a rumor Kennedy will be able to hand-pick her successor, and that would be Kiri Hart.

Yup, she's the leader of Lucasfilm Story Group, and the fact she's to be Kennedy's hand-picked successor is all we need to know to hope she doesn't get the job.

And, probably, she won't get the job. She's a writer, and never produced a film in her career, and is by no means qualified to lead the production of a multi-billion dollar film franchise.



Rumors say the official announcement for the LucasArts change will be in September. We'll see if these rumors are legit within a few months.




Thoughts?

"The Force is Female"??

WTF is this stupid ass shit... lol

What an embarrassment

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

SjW shit always fails. They always try to pretend it's a success but eventually the numbers get scrutinized and heads start to roll.

The first couple of weeks after the new Ghostbusters came out, the internet was abuzz with SJWs spiking the football acting like it was a success too.

They were even saying it was going to get a sequel lmao.

This will go down as a weird period in film where objectively awful movies were treated like masterpieces (Ghostbusters, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, TLJ) just because they check the right boxes with the pink haired freaks of the world.

Meanwhile the Jawbreakers comic is outselling Batman specifically because its creator openly rejects SJW bullshit.

 

[foxnoob]

It's too late, she already empowered Rian Johnson to destroy any claim Disney had to the franchise.

Star Wars is now exclusively 1-6 only with a possible footnote for Rogue One, the rest no longer exist and neither does their merchandise.

 

[JAEGERX]

to be honest Star Wars was ruined a long time ago, but this chick was just curb stomping the rotting carcass, as others have said, Star Wars doesnt have creativity anymore, it lives of nostalgia combined with stagnation, everything is the same and nobody gives a fuck anymore

 

[moreorless87]

SjW shit always fails. They always try to pretend it's a success but eventually the numbers get scrutinized and heads start to roll.

The first couple of weeks after the new Ghostbusters came out, the internet was abuzz with SJWs spiking the football acting like it was a success too.

They were even saying it was going to get a sequel lmao.

This will go down as a weird period in film where objectively awful movies were treated like masterpieces (Ghostbusters, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, TLJ) just because they check the right boxes with the pink haired freaks of the world.

Meanwhile the Jawbreakers comic is outselling Batman specifically because its creator openly rejects SJW bullshit.

Black Panther was decent I thought, not the best Marvel by along way with some flaws but certainly watchable.

 

[D3THRONED]

SjW shit always fails. They always try to pretend it's a success but eventually the numbers get scrutinized and heads start to roll.

The first couple of weeks after the new Ghostbusters came out, the internet was abuzz with SJWs spiking the football acting like it was a success too.

They were even saying it was going to get a sequel lmao.

This will go down as a weird period in film where objectively awful movies were treated like masterpieces (Ghostbusters, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, TLJ) just because they check the right boxes with the pink haired freaks of the world.

Meanwhile the Jawbreakers comic is outselling Batman specifically because its creator openly rejects SJW bullshit.

people dont realize the sjw types are such a small minority and they cater to them because theyre vocal as fuck. time and time again we see the failure in this. it really rubs people the wrong way with all this forced diversity nonsense. no one gives a fuck if the lead is black, female, or male as long as its done well.

 

[Scerpi]

Black Panther was decent I thought, not the best Marvel by along way with some flaws but certainly watchable.

Black Panther has been cool and around far longer than the SJW movement.

It's dumb to associate Black Panther with SJWs just because the main character is black.

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

people dont realize the sjw types are such a small minority and they cater to them because theyre vocal as fuck. time and time again we see the failure in this. it really rubs people the wrong way with all this forced diversity nonsense. no one gives a fuck if the lead is black, female, or male as long as its done well.

It doesn't help that most SJWs are unemployed or students. All the annoying SJWs on my Facebook feeds are dudes I used to game with who are now unemployed. Of course they are hard left, they want free shit.

It's completely disingenuous horseshit to suggest they suddenly got really interested in social justice right around the time they lost their job and went on EI.

Look at the movies dudes like:

Rocky - Diverse cast
Predator - Diverse cast
Terminator - female lead
Alien - female lead

This whole myth that movies are too white and too male is just that, a myth.

It's all a big scam by people trying to get rich by forcing their way into roles and positions they don't deserve.

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

to be honest Star Wars was ruined a long time ago, but this chick was just curb stomping the rotting carcass, as others have said, Star Wars doesnt have creativity anymore, it lives of nostalgia combined with stagnation, everything is the same and nobody gives a fuck anymore

Also I remember when the he prequels came out, everyone was acting like they were good movies. It wasn't until years later that people went back, watched them again and realized they were shit. The same thing will happens with these films.

In 5 years, even the staunchest defenders of these movies will be pretending they never liked them.

There were people declaring fucking Avatar the best movie of all time a few years ago. No one even thinks about that pile of dogshit anymore.

 

[method115]

Also I remember when the he prequels came out, everyone was acting like they were good movies. It wasn't until years later that people went back, watched them again and realized they were shit. The same thing will happens with these films.

In 5 years, even the staunchest defenders of these movies will be pretending they never liked them.

There were people declaring fucking Avatar the best movie of all time a few years ago. No one even thinks about that pile of dogshit anymore.

Other than the Phantom menace I thought the prequels were good. I never understood the Avatar hype. I watched it at home and never even finished it was tired went to bed and never bothered going back to it. We've seen that story play out a million times it's done.

 

[Magooglie]

Good, fire her! Bring back Luke!

 

[Thrawn33]

 

[moreorless87]

Black Panther has been cool and around far longer than the SJW movement.

It's dumb to associate Black Panther with SJWs just because the main character is black.

I mean it clearly benefited from the politics but I don't think it was bad cinema propped up by them.