{"id":100796,"date":"2022-05-18T23:38:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T18:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/lucasfilms-kathleen-kennedy-on-moving-away-from-skywalkers\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T23:38:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T18:08:01","slug":"lucasfilms-kathleen-kennedy-on-moving-away-from-skywalkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/lucasfilms-kathleen-kennedy-on-moving-away-from-skywalkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy on Moving Away from Skywalkers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cStar Wars\u201d is in a fascinating place right now. The franchise, which began in 1977, is now relegated exclusively to streaming. And without a new feature film since Christmas 2019, when the underwhelming \u201cThe Rise of Skywalker\u201d closed out the so-called Skywalker saga, the cinematic output is very much in flux.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Vanity Fairy\u2019s Anthony Breznican<\/a> published Wednesday, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy was asked how important the move away from the Skywalker saga was for the vitality of the franchise. (Keep in mind that Luke Skywalker has now appeared in the second season of \u201cThe Mandalorian,\u201d that show\u2019s spin-off \u201cThe Book of Boba Fett\u201d and will be a part of \u201cObi-Wan Kenobi,\u201d which starts streaming next week. The Skywalker saga might be over but the character is still a keystone of the franchise.) <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is vital,\u201d Kennedy said about moving beyond the Skywalkers. \u201cJust staying within the construct of George\u2019s storytelling, to keep chipping away at that, I think would be wrong. It\u2019s our job to step away now, but still have a connection to the mythology that George created. That won\u2019t stop. But we are moving on from the Skywalker saga. That\u2019s what\u2019s taking a lot of time, discussion, and thought right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What that looks like is anybody\u2019s guess, although one of the new Disney+ series, \u201cThe Acolyte,\u201d take place 100 years before the events of the first \u201cStar Wars\u201d film, in a period known in the continuity as the High Republic. It will be great if the company follows through on this commitment \u2013 the \u201cStar Wars\u201d universe is so vast and diverse, to keep circling back to the same family seems unnecessarily limiting, on both a narrative and emotional level.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the next big screen \u201cStar Wars\u201d adventure will once again take place in a galaxy far, far away only this time with characters we\u2019ve never, ever seen before.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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