(Left) ‘Maul: Shadow Lord’s Dave Filoni at Lucasfilm Animation’s twentieth Anniversary at Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Chiba, Japan. Picture by Christopher Jue/Getty Pictures for Disney. (Proper) President of Lucasfilm Kathleen Kennedy at Star Wars Celebration 2023.
Preview:
- Kathleen Kennedy is formally stepping down as president of Lucasfilm.
- Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan will grow to be co-presidents.
- The following ‘Star Wars’ film, ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu,’ is due in Could.
There’s massive information coming from Lucasfilm, the corporate that produces the ‘Star Wars’ films and TV exhibits.
After loads of hypothesis throughout the final 12 months or so, firm president Kathleen Kennedy, who has run it for 14 years, has confirmed she’ll step down.
The brand new President/Chief Inventive Officer is ‘The Mandalorian’ co-creator Dave Filoni, who has been Lucasfilm EVP and Chief Inventive Officer. Serving as Lucasfilm’s new Co-President is Lynwen Brennan, the longtime President & GM of Lucasfilm Enterprise.
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Filoni, after all, has lengthy been concerned with ‘Star Wars,’ having been recruited by Lucas to work on animated adventures, however incomes his stripes working alongside Jon Favreau on the increasing small-screen universe.
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What’s Kathleen Kennedy subsequent step?
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Kathleen Kennedy accepts the award on the 2018 Governors Awards in The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Middle® in Hollywood, CA, on Sunday, November 18, 2018. Picture: Matt Petit/©A.M.P.A.S.
Kennedy, who turns 73 this 12 months, is probably going trying to work on initiatives that don’t generate the ire that newer developments in ‘Star Wars’ fandom have (let’s be sincere right here –– Filoni and Brennan are unlikely to cease listening to from dissatisfied followers) and as a substitute return to working extra as a producer alongside husband and enterprise companion Frank Marshall.
In spite of everything, she had a long-established profession producing quite a lot of films earlier than Kennedy joined Lucasfilm in 2012 as co-chair alongside ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas.
Shortly after, Lucas exited his publish as Disney acquired the corporate for $4 billion, and Kennedy was elevated to president.
Since then, she has steered the franchise ship by highs (the $2 billion success of ‘The Pressure Awakens,’ the small display universe-building of ‘The Mandalorian’) and lows (‘Solo: A Star Wars Story,’ lesser-performing Disney+ sequence reminiscent of ‘The Acolyte’).
Who’s Lynwen Brennan?
(L-R) Ron Howard, Lynwen Brennan, Phil Tippett, Rose Duignan, Joe Johnston and Dennis Muren attend the “Gentle & Magic” presentation at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California on Could 27, 2022. The ILM documentary sequence premieres solely on Disney+ July 27, 2022. (Picture by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Pictures for Disney).
Brennan joined Industrial Gentle & Magic in 1999, rising by the ranks to grow to be ILM President in 2009 (together with Skywalker Sound), Lucasfilm EVP/Normal Supervisor in 2015, and President & Normal Supervisor, Lucasfilm Enterprise, in 2024.
She leads Lucasfilm’s enterprise technique and franchise and manufacturing operations and has overseen ILM’s growth into a number of studios worldwide, establishing it because the trade’s preeminent VFX studio on the forefront of manufacturing know-how.
The brand new be a part of initiative sounds lots just like the DC Studios cut up in duties between James Gunn, who handles the artistic facet and Peter Safran, who tackles enterprise points.
What’s taking place within the on-screen ‘Star Wars’ universe?
(L to R) Grogu and Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) in Lucasfilm’s ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’. Picture courtesy of Lucasfilm. © 2025 Lucasfilm Ltd™. All Rights Reserved.
Large display Mando spin-off ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’ is first amongst ‘Star Wars’ equals proper now, having shot final 12 months and now rushing by post-production for a launch on Could 22. That will probably be adopted by Shawn Levy’s ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’, which stars Ryan Gosling and is scheduled for Could 28 subsequent 12 months.
Filoni remains to be placing the items collectively for his personal movie (although that is perhaps on maintain given the brand new gig until he goes the Gunn route and retains writing and directing initiatives), and there are a number of others in several levels of improvement.
(L to R) ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’s Ryan Gosling and director Shawn Levy at Star Wars Celebration 2025. Picture: Lucasfilm.