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Mar 9, 2023

Lucasfilm Sued For “Egregious” Axing Of Producer Karyn McCarthy From ‘Star Wars’ Series ‘The Acolyte’

On the same day it became public that Star Wars projects from Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins are now dormant, Lucasfilm has been hit with a breach of contract lawsuit over the upcoming The Acolyte.

 FULL STORY HERE - https://deadline.com/2023/03/star-wars-series-the-acolyte-lawsuit-lucasfilm-karyn-mccarthy-1235282595/

Not a surprise this is happening as there seems to be a controversy with every production involving Kathleen Kennedy..

The Force Awakens - Arndt was fired, and Abrams teamed up with then-consultant Lawrence Kasdan

The Last Jedi - Hiring of Rian Johnson and Luke Skywalker controversy

Rise of Skywalker - Trevorrow and his writing team were fired from the project titled Duel of the Fates.

Rogue One -  Gary Whitta was hired to write the script but was later dismissed and replaced by Chris Weitz, whose final drafts differed greatly from Whitta's.  director Gareth Edwards was fired deep in the post-production process

Solo - Directors had clashed with Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and got removed from the project

Kenobi - original writers for the Kenobi trilogy, Stuart Beattie spent over a year developing the film on which the Obi-Wan Kenobi series was based. writer left the project after the movie was canceled  Was a film trilogy then a tv series. New writer  Joby Harold revealed that he had no idea that Kenobi knew that Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader.

Acolyte - Leslye Headland Hired A Writer Who Has Not Seen 'Star Wars. 

I must admit with this being  a Kathleen Kennedy driven project I have no expectation on this series at all. Kenobi and BOBF did not meet the wishes of the fans was good and  to not great in parts. I think this will be worse as KK has no respect for the lore of Star Wars or the fans. It has production issues, problems with the script, even Jon and Dave moved on from it. The warning signs are there already, I guess we shall see, hopefully it is not a told you so prediction...