Doomcock on YouTube has claimed that a Star Wars "civil war" is taking place within Lucasfilm between Kathleen Kennedy and those loyal to George Lucas...
...Doomcock previously said the new head of Lucasfilm could be Jon Favreau, or Doomcock said the new head of Lucasfilm could be a neutral third party so as to calm the dissension among the factions that support Kennedy and those loyal to Lucas within Lucasfilm.
The idea that there are these sort of factions internally at Lucasfilm seems pretty laughable when you look at Kathleen Kennedy's history working with George Lucas, as well as the fact that she's still actively involved in projects like
The Mandalorian just as much as she was with the Sequel Trilogy, and how all of those people interact whenever we've seen them in things like the BTS for
The Mandalorian.
I just think that most of the reeee-ing masses don't understand that what George Lucas did, what Kathleen Kennedy does, what Dave Filoni does, and what Jon Favreau does aren't all the same thing. Like putting Favreau or Filoni into Kathleen Kennedy's role is pulling them away from the things that you like them for, and giving them less ability to make the things that you like, not more.
Also if she just wraps up her contract normally or whatever it is for how things are set up for her, those people feel like they'll be getting a victory out of what is quite literally non-news. Lots of people who step in to leadership roles during transitional periods like this only stay there for a certain period of time before moving on. If all she wanted to do was make sure that things with Disney got into place and grew to a point where she felt that things were in good hands when she left – then that's pretty much exactly what we're seeing.
I just always keep in mind that these are the same people who would loathe George Lucas' sequels of the journey into the microverse even more than what we got with the Sequel Trilogy, but they'd never admit it.
My 2 cents is that with TFA & TLJ being literally back-to-back, what IX really needed was a bigger time gap to let Kylo Ren really be the Supreme Leader, and see what it was like to have a Skywalker ruling over the galaxy, before bringing it back to Anakin's legacy of being an enslaved kid outside the reach of the Republic. I feel like the space between VIII & IX should have been a whole region to explore and tell stories the way that we got with Clone Wars, and it's pretty clear that
Star Wars Resistance was originally going to be an early version of that. However, everything with the development on IX, Carrie's passing, and all of that momentum & stability fell to bits. They they just soldiered ahead with IX anyway, and we got what we got from that, so that they just made the smart move and decided it was best just to leave it be & let it alone for a while.
That's why I think that the grain of truth attached to all of this is that they're not pushing on expanding content around the time period of the sequel trilogy –
but that much was pretty obvious with the focus on the High Republic that was announced months ago. Everyone knows that Episode IX wasn't a solid landing to grow from for telling new stories, and that they'd focused storytelling efforts elsewhere.
I think that if they are introducing a "Veil of the Force" thing, that it'll be a label for telling "What If?" type stories like what if Maul & Ahsoka
DID team up together to go stop Anakin, and other things like that that are clearly interesting to audiences. It would let them explore a lot of things like "Infinities" used to, and eventually give them a way to feel out what to do with the era around the Sequel trilogy. It would also let them tell stories that ignored the sequel trilogy, so I feel like some small piece of truth to that + Kathleen Kennedy potentially passing the torch in an entirely normal and uneventful way got spun up into the crazy rumor mill & that's how we got fed the information.
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