In an interview with Deadline, Kennedy pushed back on the intense scrutiny, which has at times led to information getting out about certain projects before the studio was ready to unveil them. "It doesn't matter if you're doing Star Wars or anything else. What's troubling and frustrating is that our development gets scrutinized, and I don't know any other production company where their development gets scrutinized like that," Kennedy said. "It's very hard for anything to happen within Star Wars without some aspect of it becoming public before you even want it to become public."
Kennedy stated that it was not unusual for in-development projects not to see the light of day, but it seemed different rules were being unfairly applied to Star Wars by fans. "So, I guess managing the message in some way is also quite a challenge because, of course, not every single thing we put in development we going to make," she said. "That's not unusual. We want to make those things that we feel are the best. We want to make those things that, as time passes, feel relevant to what the audience is responding to."
We want to make those things that we feel are the best.
Kennedy stated that it was not unusual for in-development projects not to see the light of day, but it seemed different rules were being unfairly applied to Star Wars by fans. "So, I guess managing the message in some way is also quite a challenge because, of course, not every single thing we put in development we going to make," she said. "That's not unusual. We want to make those things that we feel are the best. We want to make those things that, as time passes, feel relevant to what the audience is responding to."
We want to make those things that we feel are the best.
Kathleen Kennedy is Going Nowhere
Kennedy also addressed recent retirement rumors and talked about the succession plan at Lucasfilm. "The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring," Kennedy said. "I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies. That is the first thing that’s important to say. I am not retiring. What’s happening at Lucasfilm is I have been talking for quite some time with both Bob and Alan about what eventual succession might look like. We have an amazing bench of people here, and we have every intention of making an announcement months or a year down the road."
"George [Lucas] asked me 13 years ago to step in, and now I'm looking at who's going to replace me," Kennedy continued. "And as I said, we have a bench of people internally to handle the business, the creative side. The job has grown also since I stepped in. There was no streaming, there weren't a lot of the things that we’re involved in right now going on. So it has grown."
Source: Deadline
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