By now you probably have heard that Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman shut down a new Star Wars movie, The Hunt for Ben Solo, that was moving toward development. The movie was developed by Adam Driver with Steven Soderbergh as director, working in conjunction with the Lucasfilm brain trust of Kathleen Kennedy, Carrie [...]
Adam Driver spent two years developing a Star Wars movie with director Steven Sodenbergh, script-writer Scott Z. Burns, and the Lucasfilm brain trust of Kathleen Kennedy, Carrie Beck, and Dave Filoni, only to have Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman kill it. The reasoning? "They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive," Driver told [...]
Adam Driver dropped a pretty massive Star Wars tidbit in an interview with the Associated Press, released today: he was quietly working on developing a Star Wars film for two years before Disney ultimately killed the project. In the interview, which was in promotion of Driver's upcoming film Father Mother Sister Brother, the actor known [...]
When Star Wars announced the full panel schedule for Celebration Japan, one panel caught my attention above the rest. Sure, there are panels for some of the franchise's headliners, like The Mandalorian & Grogu, Andor, and Ahsoka. But there's another panel that has the potential to really steal the headlines. On the first day of [...]
It is an undeniable reality that Lucasfilm has a spotty track record of getting movies done in the Disney era. Every film they've released since Disney bought the company has experienced significant production problems, with the sole exception of The Last Jedi, and there have been a litany of projects quite publicly left on the [...]
At any given point Lucasfilm has several different projects in the works, and we know they currently have several movies at various stages of development. In her recent interview with Deadline, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy spoke to a number of them, but perhaps the most interesting part of it pertained to the trilogy of movies [...]
Earlier this week reports started to swirl that Kathleen Kennedy was going to be retiring as President of Lucasfilm this year. It was originally reported by Puck, but major trades like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported hearing the same thing - though these reports were a bit more conflicted. Kennedy didn't wait long to [...]
If you follow Hollywood and the movie industry, you've no doubt seen some comments from Disney CEO Bob Iger in recent days that have stirred conversation. The comments I want to focus on today are those he made in a recent CNBC interview about Disney's current lull and what the studio is doing about it. [...]
By now you've surely heard people talking about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the box office, so I thought I'd jump into the discourse. What follows are a series of thoughts about it that are somewhat connected and somewhat random, but that I hope are helpful contributions to an online discourse that [...]
Lucasfilm is incredibly well-represented in the official list of Emmy nominations this year, as the studio received a very impressive 23 nominations across four shows. Included among those nominations were Andor being nominated in Outstanding Drama Series and Obi-Wan Kenobi being nominated in Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, two of the most prestigious and notable [...]
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