Kathleen Kennedy stepping down as president of ‘Star Wars’ movie producer Lucasfilm
NY Post
Kathleen Kennedy will step down from her role as president of “Star Wars” movie producer Lucasfilm this week and become a full-time producer, Walt Disney said Thursday.
Disney has named Dave Filoni, a protégé of “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and the co-creator of “Star Wars” streaming TV series “The Mandalorian,” president and chief creative officer of Lucasfilm. He will work alongside co-president Lynwen Brennan, who runs the studio’s business operations.
Filoni, 51, will now steer one of the highest-grossing movie franchises in history as well as live-action and animated TV shows.
The 72-year-old Kennedy, who has run Lucasfilm since Disney bought it in 2012, oversaw three blockbuster sequels to the original “Star Wars” trilogy and the successful spinoff “Rogue One.”
“It has been a true privilege to spend more than a decade working alongside the extraordinary talent at Lucasfilm,” Kennedy said in a statement.
The 2018 film “Solo,” which introduced a new actor as the smuggler made famous by Harrison Ford, flopped in theaters.
