Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy Denies She's Retiring Amid Reports Saying So

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Kathleen Kennedy is shooting down the report that she’s retiring from Lucasfilm. The 71-year-old movie producer spent the early years of her career producing movies for Steven Spielberg and her husband Frank Marshall.

She became the president of Lucasfilm in 2012 and has guided the development and production of all Star Wars projects since then. “The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring,” Kathleen said in a new interview with Deadline. Keep reading to find out more… “I will never retire from movies.

I will die making movies,” she continued. “That is the first thing that’s important to say. I am not retiring.” Kathleen then opened up about what’s going on at Lucasfilm and why they’re looking for her eventual successor. “What’s happening at Lucasfilm is I have been talking for quite some time with both Bob and Alan about what eventual succession might look like,” she said. “We have an amazing bench of people here, and we have every intention of making an announcement months or a year down the road.

We are in lockstep as to what that’s going to be, and I am continuing. I’m producing Mandalorian the movie right now, and I’m also producing Shawn Levy’s movie, which is after that.