The Lucasfilm of the past three decades is finally moving on, growing up...
There's a great article in The Hollywood Reporter about Kathleen Kennedy, and what it's like for her to run the company that makes Star Wars. It really is a crack into the world she travels in and her approach to all this madness.
You can tell that her style will definitely be different from the Bearded One. It's going to be an interesting five years ahead (which is how long her contract will be). Not just for these films, but the others that she moves into production for the Lucas brand.
My favorite part of the article is the quote where she talks about J.J. Abrams leaving a three hour meeting with Michael Arndt and Lawrence Kasdan and her, where she said afterwards he "was on the ceiling" when it was over. That must of been some story session they had with him. Wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall in that room when it went down? How many people would kill to see that script Arndt is going to turn in? I have a feeling this is the beginning of something beautiful.
It's a new century, a new world, and a whole new galaxy ahead of us...
