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Before Disney had the reigns on Star Wars, Kathleen Kennedy was attached to the franchise. George Lucas picked her specifically to run Lucasfilm and once Disney took over, she remained a big part of the galaxy far, far away. Now, she's revealing more information about the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
In an interview with i09 Gizmodo, Kathleen Kennedy answered many questions surrounding the new Star Wars film. One of those questions was why Colin Trevorrow, the original director attached to The Rise of Skywalker, was taken off the film.
When asked what "didn't work" about Trevorrow's pitch, Kennedy replied, "Well I wouldn't say it didn't work. Colin was at a huge disadvantage not having been a part of Force Awakens and in part of those early conversations because we had a general sense of where the story was going. Like any development process, it was only in the development that we're looking at a first draft and realizing that it was perhaps heading in a direction that many of us didn't feel was really quite where we wanted it to go."
She added, "We were on a schedule, as we often are with these movies and had to make a tough decision as to whether or not we thought we could get there in time or not. And as I said, Colin was at a disadvantage because he hadn't been immersed in everything that we all had starting out with Episode VII."
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, Matt Smith, Anthony Daniels, Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams and Carrie Fisher, with Naomi Ackie and Richard E. Grant. The film arrives on Dec. 20.