Rian Johnson is not to blame

Sounds about right. I think Johnson got his trilogy exactly for the reasons outlined in this piece. The repeated director and writer firings were becoming an embarrassment. One director, whose name escapes me, was asked by a reporter if would like to do a Star Wars movie. “No, I like to finish my films.”

Kennedy is the personification of the Peter Principle. She ascended just beyond the level of her competence. I think Solo will profit but will also underperform relative to their expectations. I think Episode IX will see an extensive boycott and will flirt with Justice League territory, struggling to reach the black. Only that kind of failure will displace the Queen Bee.

Sincre advice from a non-StarWars fan...

It will continue... Not only that but this kind of ideology will spread to other big studio movies...

Haven't you asked why this started, at this scale, with Star Wars? It is because it needed a rabidly loyal fanbase, which is also infantalised. Innocents. StarWars is about not letting go of childhood. Thus viewers bring their childhood attachments with them as they buy the tickets and merchandise regardless of what is on screen as long as it is StarWars branded.

These aren't the kind of people who will reject a movie and take their money elsewhere... Rather, StarFans will watch the movie several times in theatre just to make sure it is actually not any good and will still buy the steelbook special deluxe edition discs with toy for their collection, for completeness sake... 😂

90% of the complainers will still watch Solo and have already started to convince themselves to watch the fiollowing one. It will do decent enough numbers. People here are arguing at the margins. The Force Awakens was 3 years ago and by the time the next Star Wars movie is released, completing the Rey trilogy, it will be the only Star Wars that a generation of children knows. Rey is thier Luke/Hans... It's already done. Kathleen is the new Lucas.

And other executives, producers and filmmakers will copy Kathleen's success...

But don' dispair! There is another world out there.. As a non-StarWars fan I always saw StarWars as a cultish obsession, as a way to be part of a tribe that I didn't want to be part of.. This is liberating, as there is a whole world of actual cinema out there that trounces StarWars in all aspects, yet it doesn't demand loyalty, consumersim or adopting an idiology of "force" nonsense, eternal childhood or feminism. 😉 Liberate yourselves from StarWars and you'll be able to see Kathleens StarWars as just another consumer cult, with weird ideology. Take your money and mind elsewhere... Grow out of it. It's easy...