After announcing her ‘succession plan’ to bring a new person into the role of Lucasfilm president after she steps away to focus on producing duties, it seems there might not be the one, but two people required to fulfill the role that Kathleen Kennedy currently owns – Lucasfilm General Manager Lynwen Brennan and Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni. According to Puck News, Filoni will take on a creative role while Brennan will focus on the executive side of the position.
When it was announced that Kathleen Kennedy was making a “succession plan” as she prepared to leave Lucasfilm and Star Wars, it seemed like there was probably only one person who would fill her shoes. Now, technically, there are two, but yes, he’s one of them.
That would be Dave Filoni. A new report from the reliable Puck News says that Filoni is about to be tapped as co-president to run the creative side of Lucasfilm, ie. all of Star Wars. His fellow co-president would be Lynwen Brennan, who would be on the executive side. Filoni is currently the chief creative officer of Lucasfilm, while Brennan is general manager. But for the big moves, it seems it will fall to Filoni.
Kathleen Kennedy is often painted as a villain for greenlighting the Star Wars projects that fans have not liked in the Disney era. Though few may realize that she was also the one pushing for a show like Andor, back when that seemed like a long shot.
The current state of Disney Star Wars is so scattered that it’s hard to even know what would happen under Filoni. Ahsoka is the only Disney+ show confirmed to even be coming back, with everything else either cancelled, finished or a one-off. The big return to Star Wars movies is a spin-off of a TV show. After that, there are more potentially interesting projects like Ryan Gosling’s Starfighter and the James Mangold-directed Dawn of the Jedi, which still exists at this point, with a graveyard of other cancelled Star Wars films behind it.
We’ll be discussing this and more on episode 246 of Making Tracks, and for the first episode of the year head to Fantha Tracks Radio and episode 245 which landed this evening.
