Kathleen Kennedy’s Lucasfilm Legacy: A Galaxy in Disarray | Analysis

Kathleen Kennedy was one with The Force. Until she wasn’t.

And now, at the end of her tenure at Lucasfilm, with current Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni and Lywen Brennan, current president and general manager of Lucasfilm Business, taking over, she leaves behind a complicated legacy of commercial hits, critical darlings, costly misfires and several filmmakers who were hired then fired from a galaxy far, far away.

Kennedy’s tenure at Lucasfilm predates the fateful Disney acquisition of the company in 2012.