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Is the Kathleen Kennedy Nightmare Finally Over?

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4.8747 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

She’s killed off more loved ones than the Bubonic Plague. She’s utterly wrecked what was once the most valuable IP in the world. For 13 years she has brought her venom, her bitterness and her feminism (but I repeat myself) to Lucasfilm and systematically destroyed what used to be the very heart of pop culture. Now, for the fourth or fifth time, she says she is about to step down. Is it too late?

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What do you call somebody with the power to destroy one of the most valuable entertainment and merchandising franchises of all time?

0:07.0

Well, with any luck, we're about to call her Kathleen Kennedy, first of her name, Destroyer of Star Wars, and former head of Lucasfilm.

0:16.0

We can only pray.

0:17.0

Hey, everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.

0:19.0

This is Right Angle, brought you by the

0:21.1

members. We're at Puck. Matthew Belloni reported on Tuesday that in the next week or two,

0:28.1

Disney will finally confirm what we've all known for months. Kathleen Kennedy is indeed

0:32.8

stepping down as Lucasfilm president. And Bill, this is what irks me. After so many flops and driving

0:40.8

lifelong fans like me by, you know, this forces female crap and all the rest, is it too

0:47.6

late for anybody to save Star Wars? I think it is. Yeah, me too. Yeah, I think it is.

0:54.8

And the same goes for Star Trek.

0:57.3

There comes a point where the damage becomes so overwhelming that fans leave.

1:05.1

So, you know, there are these stages of grief.

1:07.3

For those people not up on Inside Baseball here, Kathleen

1:10.9

Kennedy took over as head

1:12.7

of Lucas film once George Lucas sold

1:14.5

Star Wars to Disney, which was

1:16.6

after the prequel movies.

1:19.1

And then everything after that,

1:20.9

including the three

1:22.3

sequels,

1:25.1

and any number

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