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Lucasfilm Leadership Changes: Kathleen Kennedy Exits as Dave Filoni & Lynwen Brennan Named Co-Presidents

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Skytalkers, where this week we are breaking down the biggest news out of Lucasfilm: Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as President after 14 years! Lucasfilm additionally announced that Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan will take over as Co-Presidents. Tune into hear us discuss:  Discussion of Kennedy’s in-depth interview with Deadline and her incredible 40+ year career!  What did Kennedy have to say about future Star Wars projects?  Who is Lynwen Brennan and what has her role been at Lucasfilm?  What are our thoughts on the future of Star Wars under the leadership of Filoni & Brennan? …and so much more!  Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more! Our website! Follow us on Twitter/X @skytalkerspod Follow us on TikTok @skytalkers Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @skytalkerspodcast Follow Charlotte on Twitter/X @crerrity Follow Caitlin on Twitter/X @caitlinplesher Email us! hello@skytalkers.com For ad inquiries please email: skytalkers@58ember.com Please note this Episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this Episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to a 58 Ember production.

0:16.8

Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin. Hello, and welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your host, Charlotte and Caitlin.

0:23.3

Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.

0:26.0

Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin. And welcome to this week's episode where we're back again with breaking news.

0:31.8

Breaking news. We never do this. And now we've got two weeks in a row of brand new news coming out of Lucasfilm and Disney.

0:43.6

Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as president of Lucasfilm.

0:48.3

After 14 years, which is really crazy, we're going to talk all about it.

0:53.0

This has been out for a couple of days now,

0:55.3

but honestly, we wanted to let it sit for a little bit, and we were hoping that there would be

1:00.2

some kind of interview that came out of this, and there was. And we wanted to be sure to be

1:04.2

able to talk about that. So that's why maybe this is coming to your podcast feed a little

1:08.7

later than maybe you've expected. But that's why.

1:12.6

Yeah, we kind of wanted the dust to settle a little bit. Sometimes I think with big breaking news like

1:17.3

this, it needs a second. And then you get some interesting things that have happened on social

1:23.7

media, like things that have come up, different scoops that have happened, I think,

1:28.7

like the Hollywood Reporter. So I feel like we, there's a lot to discuss and I think there's,

1:34.5

I know there is, like a lot of emotions around this. So I think we, we need to break it all down

1:40.2

and talk it through. I feel like this is all, this is huge news, right? I feel like we're on the

1:45.0

precipice of a new era of Star Wars. And it's one of those things where it's like, what do you do

1:51.7

in this situation? I feel like for the past two years specifically, I have been nervous about what

2:00.3

this transition would look like because

2:02.3

Kathy has been the president for a long time at Lucasfilm.

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