{"id":2250306,"date":"2026-01-26T01:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250306"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:08:20","slug":"rian-johnson-hopes-star-wars-brings-in-fresh-voices-and-filmmakers-to-tell-new-stories-in-that-world-as-kathleen-kennedy-exits-lucasfilm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rian-johnson-hopes-star-wars-brings-in-fresh-voices-and-filmmakers-to-tell-new-stories-in-that-world-as-kathleen-kennedy-exits-lucasfilm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rian Johnson Hopes \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Brings in \u2018Fresh Voices and Filmmakers\u2019 to Tell \u2018New Stories in That World\u2019 as Kathleen Kennedy Exits Lucasfilm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rian Johnson<\/a> is \u201cexcited to see\u201d what Kathleen Kennedy<\/a> does next after stepping down as the head of Lucasfilm<\/a>. Kennedy, who took charge of the \u201cStar Wars<\/a>\u201d franchise after George Lucas<\/a> handpicked her to run Lucasfilm 14 years ago, announced her studio exit earlier this month. She is being replaced by Dave Filoni<\/a> and Lynwen Brennan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Kathy. I am excited now to see what she does next,\u201d Johnson said at the Variety Studio presented by Audible<\/a> while in Sundance as an executive producer on \u201cThe Only Living Pickpocket in New York.\u201d \u201cAs a \u2018Star Wars\u2019 fan, the most exciting thing for me is always seeing when they bring in fresh voices and fresh filmmakers to come in and tell new stories in that world. That\u2019s what I am looking forward to seeing more happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson directed \u201cStar Wars: The Last Jedi<\/a>\u201d and said of the experience, \u201cI had…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rian Johnson is \u201cexcited to see\u201d what Kathleen Kennedy does next after stepping down as the head of Lucasfilm. Kennedy, who took charge of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d franchise after George Lucas handpicked her to run Lucasfilm 14 years ago, announced her studio exit earlier this month. She is being replaced by Dave Filoni and Lynwen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2250306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rian-Johnson-Hopes-\u2018Star-Wars-Brings-in-\u2018Fresh-Voices-and.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250308,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250306\/revisions\/2250308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}