According to a new report about David Benioff and D.B. Weiss' departure from their slated Star Wars trilogy, filmmakers who work on the franchise do not have a lot of creative freedom.
Variety reports that new ideas can be shut down by Kathleen Kennedy and her team if they stray too far away from the company line. This has led to deep disagreements, resulting in the creatives leaving the project instead of trying to find common ground. In the case of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Lucasfilms turned to newcomers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, only to fall back to Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back and serves as a creative consultant for Star Wars productions.
Notably, every Star Wars production is run by the Story Group, a specialized department that ensures creative cohesiveness and canon trustworthiness across every production in the franchise, be it a movie, a YouTube series, a comic book or a novel. This ensures that the universe and the timelines remain stable and allow a large number of people to work simultaneously on different projects without losing sight of the big picture.
Directed and co-written by J.J. Abrams, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker stars Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo, Billie Lourd, Keri Russell, Anthony Daniels, Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams and Carrie Fisher, with Naomi Ackie and Richard E. Grant. The film arrives Dec. 20.
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