The Future of Star Wars: Dave Filoni and Lenwyn Brennan Take the Reins at Lucasfilm
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this very special episode of Children of the Watch, we discuss Kathleen Kennedy stepping down as Lucasfilm president, as well as Dave Filoni and Lenwyn Brennan stepping up to new leadership roles! We reflect on the amazing work Kennedy has done for Star Wars, the exciting directions Dave Filoni could take the franchise creatively, as well as the fate of many announced or anticipated Star Wars projects, including the New Jedi Order movie, The Hunt for Ben Solo, the Star Wars movie being developed by James Mangold & Beau Willimon, and many more.
We hope you enjoy this out-of-the norm news episode, we just had too many thoughts not to share! We will be back later this week with the continuation of our Mandalorian Rewatch, specifically Chapter Five of The Book of Boba Fett!
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Music by Mac Lacey
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so we have had some big news in the last few days. |
| 0:15.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.1 | And we figured this needed its own episode to kind of break down and talk about everything that has |
| 0:23.5 | happened with Lucas film. Yeah. We've got some leadership changes. We've got updates on a lot of |
| 0:30.1 | product status or project statuses. I think that's maybe even the more interesting part to me |
| 0:35.7 | anyway. We've got some motorcycles just |
| 0:39.3 | Revin in the background. But yeah they're Darth Revan out there. You'll just have to bear |
| 0:45.8 | with us for some audio quality issues. It's not a big deal. But yeah, we wanted to get on |
| 0:50.8 | Mike. I think the plan at the moment is that the patrons are going to get access to this a little bit early. |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.5 | And then it'll hit the main feed. |
| 0:59.0 | But nothing is set in stone until it happens with our show. |
| 1:02.2 | So don't know anything about that. |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.3 | But that's the plan. |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.3 | Okay. |
| 1:06.7 | So we got this news. |
| 1:10.3 | Not yesterday. |
| 1:11.6 | It's Saturday, January 27th, or January 17th. |
| 1:15.6 | We got this news Thursday night. |
| 1:17.6 | And it kind of, there were some rumors that this was gonna happen. |
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