8 posts tagged ‘kathleen kennedy’
All the Shocking Star Wars News of the Week, and More
Gizmodo,
Lucasfilm decided to drop a bomb this week with the shocking reveal of a remixed movie slate: now headlined by a Mandalorian movie, the first Star Wars film to enter production since The Rise of Skywalker. But that wasn’t all in the galaxy far far away: Ahsoka’s back! Luke and Padmé finally met, sort of! There’s all… Read more...
Lily Gladstone Has an Excellent Take on Ewoks
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has made no secret of her love for Star Wars, especially the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi. The Golden Globe winner (and Oscar contender) told the New York Times she had a “strong desire to be an Ewok at age five”—that’s how deep the love is. Read more...
Hey Star Wars, Can We Get Movie and Show Titles That Aren't Just Character Names Again?
Did The Rise of Skywalker and rampant speculation over just which Skywalker is rising, who a Skywalker is, and why they’re rising break some brains over at Lucasfilm? Almost every bit of Star Wars on the small screen we’ve gotten since (and planned for the big one) is a character title, named for an individual or the… Read more...
What the Mandalorian & Grogu movie reveals about the future of Star Wars
AV Club,
This week’s announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu film added one more major project to Lucasfilm’s already crowded Star Wars slate. While we don’t have many details about The Mandalorian movie at this point, what we do know shows where the studio is focusing its resources, and where the Star Wars franchise is… Read more...
Kathleen Kennedy Masterpieces, Ranked
We’ll never understand how certain pockets of the internet vilify Kathleen Kennedy. Since Kennedy became the president of Lucasfilm in 2012, she’s been instrumental in bringing one of the most famous franchises in the world back to prominence on the big screen and beyond. Under Kennedy we finally got to see what… Read more...
Star Wars enters a new era as Ahsoka's Dave Filoni becomes Chief Creative Officer
To some Star Wars fans, Clone Wars architect Dave Filoni is the second-coming of George Lucas—the one man who can be trusted with Star Wars lore now that Disney is running things. To others, he represents nearly all of the franchise’s silliest missteps, pulling Star Wars away from the stories and characters of the… Read more...
Sure, put Ke Huy Quan in a Star Wars, why not?
Star Wars has had a tough go of it in the last few years. Through a series of financially successful but divisive sequels that seem to diminish in quality with the release of every new Disney+ series, Disney’s Star Wars experiments in fan service and interconnectedness have worn people down (this writer specifically). … Read more...
Kevin Feige confirms he won’t be making a Star Wars either
So, obviously, Kevin Feige isn’t going to make a Star Wars. We more or less knew that already, but Feige himself confirmed as much in conversation with Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of The Marvels. Asked directly if the film was still on, Feige gave a definitive “No.” Read more...