Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy to step down
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Kennedy is handing over the presidential reins to Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave Filoni and general manager Lynwen Brennan. The next upcoming Star Wars film on the docket is The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is set to hit theaters on May 22. Shawn Levy's Star Wars: Starfighter is slated for a 2027 release.
It's about as likely to make it as the Soderbergh Ben Solo film, says outgoing Lucasfilm chief in status update on raft of ill-fated Star Wars movies
In November 2024, Lucasfilm hired Simon Kinberg to begin work on the next Star Wars trilogy. Kennedy confirmed that Kinberg is still working on the script for the first film. “He wrote something that we read in August,