Speaker 1: Here's the thing. So I'm gonna bring this up very quickly.
Dyn't refer to it. We did a like the first topic.
I think it was like forty five minutes where we
gotnet to everything right because we talked about Kennedy, Star Wars,
the history, who could replace her? This is one thing
that I want to get because even the headline of
the article, so she did an interview. This is not
like a scoop, not like an OH source of say,
Kenny sat down with Deadline and here's the headline. She's
not soon retiring and the films that and the films
that will keep her in Star Wars orbit for years
to come. So that's the headline again, she is not
soon retiring and the this is very.
Speaker 2: Weirdly worded, like it doesn't feel ai but it feels
like a hack job of an article title.
Speaker 3: Look at that hatchee. Now listen, I just made up
a word.
Speaker 1: And we know I stumble on stuff all the time, right,
but that's not me misreading that, right, the films that
will keep her in Star Wars orbit for years to come.
Speaker 2: That yeah, they just wanted the orbit pun. They just
wanted the space pun. But at the cost of like
a legible headline. So this isn't even saying she is
soon retiring?
Speaker 3: Is I think it says not? I think my the
GV logo is cutting it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's not soon retiring, right, which is also a
strange sentence.
Speaker 1: But it's so this is the odd thing, right. So
I saw this credit to uh, it's whenever are now?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: But with the ga Chadham on Twitter, Chris Bogo shared it,
and I saw the head this headline right away, right
if she's not retiring, Oh boy, Okay, there's some scoop
of stuff that didn't go well. She's putting a caboche
on it. And I'm not gonna spend a long time
and I'm gonna go down to the very last question of
this article, or the second last question here, two final questions.
Deadline says, will you step up as lucasfilm boss? This here, Kennedy,
we really don't know the stage. There's so much going on, Mike,
I don't know.
Speaker 2: I read that. I love the Kama, Mike. I loved
her adding the interviewer's name just has like an air
of like she's so pissed off and exhausted of this
and I love that first.
Speaker 1: And to play that this is why this whole thing
is deadline. Then asks when it happens, who will make
the decision. It's my decision. This is one hundred percent
my decision, and that's what I want to get on that.
I think this article was either if it was whether
it was just a scooper that heard something and just
wanted to go fast, or it was somebody that's like,
I don't like Kennedy.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 1: Somebody, because like the puck we went over, this puck
is like a business one they put out and then
like all the other Steer scoopers jumped on and said, oh,
I've heard the same thing, so we don't know. But
this definitely feels like this was not she's leaving. It
still sounds like she's leaving. Just sounds like the message
that they wanted to put out was her announcing or anything, right,
because even the cliff notes of this article tried to
find somewhere she talks about like the Mandalorian movie and
the Sean Leavy movie and stuff, how she's like, oh,
I got many projects coming up. These are products she's
working on right now. That of course, yeah, we'll released,
but she could still be retired. You're still a producer
credit on them, right, Like George Lucas still gets credit
on Star Wars movies, but he's.
Speaker 3: Been long gone.
Speaker 1: So that, yeah, it was like kind of a weird
gas lighting article. I think that just was put out
there to like, Okay, hey, we didn't want we wanted
to be I want to break this. For some reason,
somebody put out there. We weren't ready to share it,
so let's put the cabasche on it. But everything is
just like even then, I want to find the quote
is here you go Deadline says, how far down the
road do you expect before a change gets made? Then
you will go off and produce these two big stars things.
Kenny says, We'll probably make an announcement in months or
year out. I have every intention of sticking around to
help that person be successful. So again it's so it's it's.
Speaker 2: We'd be like staying as like an advisor advisor role
or something.
Speaker 1: Kind of like what I did a few months with Chappick.
Obviously we talk about that in the newscasts. That didn't
work out, and we could see a world where even
Kenny comes back but it's so weird to be just like,
here's the very first paragraph. Uh, let's see the truth.
This is what she They just asked, are you retiring?
What's the truth?
Speaker 3: This says?
Speaker 1: The truth is I just want to say loud and clear,
I'm not retiring. I will never retire for making movies,
which makes sense. She could do other stuff, but lusam,
I will die making movies. This is the first thing
that's important to say. I'm not retiring. What's happened at
Lucasfilm is I've been talking for quite some time with
Bob and Alan about the eventual succession might look like.
We have an amazing, amazing bench of people, and we
have every intention of making the announcement in the months
or year down the road. So I just that's why,
because I just want to talk about this because I've
seen this everywhere, like so many articles, headlines, news like
Kathleen Kenny's.
Speaker 3: Archtime should go anywhere.
Speaker 1: That's where you have to, like, Taylor ask me today, right,
I'm not sure IF's on the disc where I share
that Christian Richards and Dexter and I'm like, oh, another
serial Kay. He's like, well, how you know that I'm like, well,
did you click the article? He's like, oh, well, you
know me. So that's not just telling folks like go
out and read the thing for her to say, Hey,
I'm not retiring.
Speaker 3: But what is it? Or is it again?
Speaker 1: The we have we have a succession plan, we have
an amazing bunch of people, every intention of making an
announcement in months or a year down the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah that means nothing right when it comes down to it.
Speaker 1: But like to me, it was like, Okay, the report
that came out two nights goes she's retiring at the
end of twenty twenty five, and what she's saying, well,
we have a succession plan that might come out in
the months or a year from now, which even then,
if she were, let's say, retire in February two thousand
and six, would give that Scooper credit and say like, yeah,
that's pretty close to the end of twenty twenty five, right,
Like right, that's around then. So the only other things
that's gonna bring up, which was funny is she talked
about these projects. She confirmed, Yeah, Mando and Grog's going
going good. Oh and that's what I was gonna say too.
That last thing about we have an amazing bunch of
people here. Obviously who knows that she gets her way.
But to me, when you read through like the tea
leaves and like between the letters, I think that's literally
saying like when we're talking about a was it five
year someone else? I think it sounds like they have
every intention of someone on the team, right or multiple people,
like she's making it sound like they're working on a
succession plan with people that are around them. Obviously could
not happen, but I feel like that is her intention.
And even that original article said that she wants to
be like she would prefer being fullony or someone she's.
Speaker 3: Worked with right, same way George picked her.
Speaker 1: So they talked about Mandalori and Grogo movie. Whatever they
did confirm, I'll try, Oh where was that? There's some
other good quote too, about or something about plans. Let
me do a control f here, here we go plans.
There's a good quote. Okay, let's just do the word plan.
You know, there's a lot of plans.
Speaker 3: I think here go.
Speaker 1: So Deadline asked the flurry of press coverage, it sounds
like chaos. What's the reality Kendy chaos? Question Mark, there
has never been any chaos because we know exactly what
the plan is. That just made me fucking laugh. And
we've been covering stars the whole time. We know exactly
what the plan is. There's been made like there's I'm
sure there's been concepts of a plan, but not the
actual plan. But the only other things here. She confirmed
that it looks like it is going. You have the
Manu Grogo movie next to film, and Shawn Leavy's movie,
So she did confirm that Ryan Gossling is in that
and that's supposed to take place like five to six
years after Fork Awaken, Force Awakens. Then she said they
are working on three to four things currently, and which
was odd to me, is even down here, I'll find it?
Speaker 3: Where is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Any others I've forgot in the deadline person asked after
they talked about the ones I talked about. She says, well,
I keep waiting for Tayika. He is working on he's
working with another writer now.
Speaker 3: He's so busy. Yeah, I love him, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So what was surprised me was we heard the Taika movie,
and then in this whole article she never once mentions
that Ray movie, which I thought would be very curious
because like last year they announced it, they said we
got a writer. So she says like, hey, yeah, we
got Manelin Grogu coming out, we got the Sean Leavy movie,
we got another one, we.
Speaker 3: Got Taika's Ray's movie.
Speaker 1: At one point, we're supposed to start filming this year,
and it feels very odd that she not in this
this Deadline article.
Speaker 3: Guy even at Mike even asks, hey, any other any.
Speaker 1: Other projects we haven't talked about. No, I mentioned the
ray one. So I'm just gonna say people, we're gonna
talk about Dazy Ridley. But later on maybe there's a
reason we're talking about her because her schedule is gonna
be cleared up again. So just buck up as always.
But yeah, yeah, I just want to share that because
there's some some stuff in there that's interesting.
Speaker 2: But that's a I mean, I didn't read the whole thing, obviously,
I just bits you popped up there. But that is
a pretty weird article, even though she's talking, is kind
of strange, and I don't read other articles with her,
so maybe that's part for the course. But that is
saying that there's no chaos, we know what's going on.
Seems like this article is chaotic. You can't even answer
these questions in a regular human being way, so we'll see.
Speaker 3: It was weird.
Speaker 1: It just felt like, hey, there's lots of fire, let's
take a bucket throw water on it. But then the
fire is still going because you it really conferred like
I don't know, maybe maybe she took an abundance to
maybe she thought people thought she was retiring in general,
and I just took it as from Luca's film or whatnot.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so look up for that.
Speaker 1: Who knows me next weekly Geek, there'll be another article
or another thing coming up. But to me, like Scooper said, hey,
she's tiring in the next year, and she says, well
the plant, that's not true, but the plan is in
months or a year to come.
Speaker 3: I don't know. If it walks like a duck, wacks
like a duck. I think it's a duck, but just
might be Howard. Yah. Yeah,