It’s time to talk about this ridiculous story that is constantly showing up on reddit, youtube, and popular star wars podcasts. They believe there is an ongoing battle within Lucasfilm between the Favreau/Filoni supporters, and Kennedy supporters. I’m not going to get into how ridiculous that is –I’m going to focus on the theory that Filoni/Favreau should supplant Kennedy as President.
Simply put, Kathleen Kennedy is a straight-up businessperson, and Filoni and Favreau are creatives. Kathleen Kennedy sits in meetings that are more likely to be about complex financing arrangements for film production than anything related to a Star Wars story/canon decision.
Favreau’s position currently is ideal – he works on Star Wars basically on his own schedule (unless they are actively shooting), he writes, brainstorms, and pushes creative star wars decisions and storylines. He is able to work on Marvel movies (both from an acting and creative standpoint), and other endeavors like The Chef Show, a passion project of his.
Kathleen Kennedy on the other hand is in every day at 9, and is jam packed with meetings about Lucasfilm business until probably late into the evening. People forget that she is a high-ranking executive at one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world. She has fiduciary duties that Favreau and Filoni have no interest in even learning about.
So you want Filoni and Favreau to run the Star Wars ship story wise. Great – THEY ARE ALREADY DOING THAT. Filoni is the Creative Director of Lucasfilm! Kennedy has clearly given them rein to lead the stories for many shows.
It’s time this sorry excuse for a conspiracy goes with 2021 into the past.
Edit: a few minor things because this blew up. First off, read the post: it is not defending Kennedy’s decisions. It is a critique of the idea Filoni/Favreau should run the company in her stead. That is a made up theory perpetuated by youtubers. It’s the Qanon of Star Wars fandom.
Edit 2: everyone yelling that Favreau has the skills to do the job should realize that making him President would put 50% of his time into negotiating financing, health care benefits, special effects deals with other studios, Lucasfilm real estate investments, and detailed reporting to the Board of Directors of Disney. Wouldn’t you prefer he spend his time writing, directing, and leading the creative team?
The title is pretty much the post.
Under Favreau, Lucasfilm has arguably put out their best content since George was at the helm. Filoni has been great too, but both Mando and TBoBF were created by Favreau.
I don’t think Kennedy has the vision to bring Star Wars where it should be but I think Favreau does.
I think it’s because of the “child’s eye” view that he has for the franchise and for storytelling that would make him the right person to be at the helm of Lucasfilm or just head creative person in general.
I’d love to know what everyone else thinks!
Edit: wow, I am blown away by all of the responses. It’s awesome to see what everyone thinks about this.
Thank you so much for my first ever award too! I’d love to shout you out but it was given anonymously so thank you kind stranger!
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/indiana-jones-hasbro-lucasfilm-deal-figures-toys/
My reasoning are:
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Patty Jenkins is tied up for Cleopatra and Wonder Woman 3 for God knows how long.
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Bryce Dallas Howard has shown amazing growth as director, and episode 5 of "Book of Boba Fett" received rave reviews from critics, fans, general audiences, bloggers.
I feel Bryce Dallas Howard understands Star Wars as well as general appeal that could expand SW to general audiences, and hence increase potential box office.
What do you think?
