TCTTS said:
- Kennedy should have signed them to an exclusive SW deal, i.e. not let them make anything else until they at least completed the first movie in the trilogy. Granted, they might not have agreed to that, but if not, then don't sign them in the first place and go and find someone else.
Ding ding ding.
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Kennedy, according to a source familiar with her thinking, was nervous. The duo would become the fourth directors to exit a Star Wars project since she took the helm of Lucasfilm. Josh Trank was fired from a Star Wars standalone movie in 2015; Chris Miller and Phil Lord was canned from Solo: A Star Wars Story mid-production in June 2017 and, that same year, Colin Trevorrow departed Episode IX, replaced by J.J. Abrams. Production under Kennedy has also run into trouble, with Tony Gilroy brought in to reshoot and rewrite much of Gareth Edwards' 2016 standalone Rogue One, and Ron Howard stepping in after Lord and Miller's departure from Solo to finish the project.
All these things keep stringing together. Counting Ep IX, have been 5 movies so far. Trank, Miller/Lord, Trevorrow, and Edwards makes 4 directors canned (I don't care if Edwards name stayed on Rogue One) before D&B. The saga trilogy was poorly (not) planned. Two more trilogies announced; one director already let go*, the other controversial and with a slipping release date implying that it's a matter of time before he quietly moves on, too.
The only thing that has definitely gone right was JJ Abrams making a jillion dollars on TFA, and that wasn't exactly a crazy plan that only a genius could have devised.
*I don't know what terms are usually in directorial contracts, but every employment agreement I've signed has said that I can't work for anyone else at the same time. Sure seems like that oughtta be in a deal with a couple billion of revenue at stake. It was in the Netflix deal....
