How does Kathleen Kennedy still have a job at Lucasfilm?

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https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/kathleen-kennedy-job-lucasfilm-indiana-jones-star-wars/

For the past several days, the internet has been focused on the astounding Independence Day failure of Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny, which was beaten on its opening day by an anti-human trafficking indie movie starring Jim Caviezel, Sound of Freedom. Of course Indy 5 will, and already has, raked in far more than the Christian-themed film based on the true story of OUR Rescue founder Tim Ballard, but the latter film already made its $14 million budget back while going toe to toe with a $300 million CGI-laden Disney-Lucasfilm picture. But the real…

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Kennedy’s decision to hire young, up and coming directors like Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson backfired when she had to hire Tony Gilroy to scramble to fix Edwards’s mistakes in reshoots of Rogue One (the most iconic scene in the film being one of them), and when Johnson’s decision to “subvert expectations” went so far it left many viewers going “what the hell was that?” before returning to the bland jumble of J.J. Abrams for The Rise of Skywalker.

Worst of all was her botch of a promising standalone, Solo, directed by 21 Jump Street and Lego Movie pair Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Six months after filming started, Kennedy — urged on by Lawrence Kasdan and his son, the writers of the movie — got cold feet and fired the young directors to bring in her contemporary, the old reliable child of the early Fifties Ron Howard. Howard reshot about 70 percent of the film, ditched the humor and improv of Lord and Miller, scrapped Michael K. Williams as the villain for Paul Bettany, and turned in a film so poorly received it remains the only Star Wars movie to actually bomb at the box office.

EXCERPT

Continuation of a discussion this morning about what happened to Indiana Jones.