New Book Details HUGE MISMANAGEMENT at Lucasfilm and Star Wars

New Book Details HUGE MISMANAGEMENT at Lucasfilm and Star Wars
#starwars #lucasfilm #mandalorian

For the full story, check out Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, now available to purchase.

A new behind-the-scenes book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan shed light on some of the issues facing Lucasfilm in recent years, mostly where its streaming shows are concerned. While not as scathing an exposé as the one that covered shows like her takedowns of toxic set environments on LOST or Sleepy Hollow, she revealed that there are still issues to be examined at the house that built Star Wars.

The first anecdote covered in the sections dedicated to Lucasfilm concerns a source known by the pseudonym Emma, who was hired to work on expanding Lucasfilm’s existing IP with a spin-off of some kind. Emma worked with a person at Lucasfilm (who is given the pseudonym Derek), who she believed did not understand the assignment despite being well-connected within the film and television industry. Emma noted that despite her hopes to make an impact on the project in question, she was mostly hired to “babysit” Derek as he put out subpar scripts and contributed to a chaotic set environment. It was indicated that this is one potential example of the issues that have happened behind-the-scenes at Lucasfilm with problems being brought to the company’s attention but not sufficiently acted upon.

Another anecdote concerns someone under the pseudonym of Christopher, who indicated that the pursuit of making movie-quality television shows often come at the expense of television writers. While Christopher does not appear to be a Lucasfilm employee specifically, he expressed concern that directors and producers from movies have taken the reins of these sort of projects. Case in point, Emma noted that one Lucasfilm showrunner (presumably Derek) dismissed concerns about micromanagement of a writer just because of their status as an executive. Emma also had concerns about budgets at Lucasfilm, as it seems that the company is willing to overspend on projects instead of approaching them with a fiscally-sound mindset, with the budget on one project doubling and potentially further increasing following her departure. Despite that approach stemming from confidence following the success of The Mandalorian, it may no longer fly in 2023 with Disney tightening budgets on their projects going forward.

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For the full story, check out Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, now available to purchase.

[StarWarsThrowbacks]

Growing up, not once did I look at characters like Xena, Scully, Buffy, Padme and wished they looked like me. I gravitated towards their storylines. These people are total insufferable narcissists by only relating to insufferable characters.

[jameswyman]

I don't know about anyone else but I think that it's time for a big change, not only to Lucasfilm but Hollywood in general.

[christophernuzzi]

She had me until she started complaining about the "lack of diversity." Ho-hum, another wokie-woke. I won't be buying her book.

[liamh]

I am not sure but this woman's medicine seems worse than the illness at Lucasfilm; something I would have thought was impossible.

[peppermintspacecapsule]

KK's infamous "burn it down" rant will probably be the phrase she's forever most associated with. That, and "Solo lost money." 🤑 🤢 🤮

[FTChomp]

Kathleen Kennedy hires people based on Diversity and non talent! George Lopez did a episode on an issue like this and man it is scary how people would hire people who aren't good at what they do instead of hiring actual talent.

[Elerad]

We will never return to the days when good stories were the goal. Ever. DEI has gobbled up the entire market and it's never going away.

[chasehedges]

1:20, Gina Carano didn’t deserve to be fired. They should have kept her.

[The_Zilli]

not sure what is worst, the video content creator doesnt realize that the author to the book is a woke idiot or that the writer herself is crying that the Lucasfilms products arent woke enough and that the garbage that they put out was perfectly fine but poorly managed fiscally.

[slimpaco]

KK and Iger should be sued by stockholders.

[Shrike]

Diversity doesn't matter. Only good stories and characters matter. Disney Lucasfilm cannot write or imagine either of those. Disney star wars is hopeless.

[leandercarey]

By 'diversity and inclusion', , more often than not what they actually mean is 'segregation and exclusion'. Rather than finding talented people with a story to tell who may come from diverse backgrounds, they really mean talent and creativity don't matter as long as they aren't white and/or male. They have a very specific agenda and political message that is their prime directive. There are many many examples of movies and TV shows that have had philosophical messages designed to provide thought on various subjects and have been ragingly successful. One of the chief differences between those and this modern absurd excuse for writing is that the people involved in the successes of old had talent and an actual story to tell. It wasn't 'here's the message now whip up a story and characters to fit it'. People used to make movies because they had a story to tell. The story was a journey. Throughout the journey the characters experienced joy, sadness, hardship, failure, redemption, etc, and grew as the journey progressed. There was a point to the journey beyond a superficial, vapid, and condescending 'See? It's a generic black woman being generically strong, not letting a man rescue her, and doing stuff because.. reasons..' That's not a story. That's a pointless character devoid of depth. If you were to take modern movies, TV shows, and video games as actual representations of the world you would think that most human beings are non-white and gay. I have no problem with actual diversity in media. I think it's great to show all kinds of people doing all kinds of things but there has to be a point beyond: "See this 'diverse' character? They're doing stuff! See? There's stuff happening! And they're 'diverse'!! They're not letting the patriarchy hold THEM down! They can do stuff! Ooh, yeah! See how they showed that generic stand-in for the patriarchy that they can be jerks too?!" --- It's beyond moronic. I haven't event gone into the 'Mary Sue' factor yet... The story doesn't matter to these people. There's no creative spark, no deep emotional connections, no point other than ticking the right box. One sure sign that instead of 'diversity and inclusion' they mean 'segregation and exclusion' is when they do race and gender swapping. They didn't feel the need to actually CREATE a story that would take you on a journey with a character of color or a woman. They decided that the original character's portrayal and story were the only thing of value so it had to be changed. If the original character was white and male, according to their very premise, that is what his value was. So they're going to take that value away BECAUSE he's white and male and give it to someone they seem to think can't achieve on their own merits. That's about as condescending toward people of color and women as anything I can imagine. A condescending pat on the head, saying 'See? We took it away from THEM and gave it to YOU!' There was never a conversation where someone said 'You know, this story would be so much better if this character had this ethnicity or that gender'. It's solely a zero-sum game to them. When MLK used identity politics it was about what makes us all alike. Now it's about how different we MUST be. So 'inclusion' doesn't mean what they think it means. Merit SHOULD MATTER. 99.9% of all people don't care whether a character is black, white, male, female... all they want is a good story worth their time. To feel like the time they spent consuming it left them better and more fulfilled than before. A story can be happy, sad, angry, thoughtful, insightful, educational, bittersweet, and anything in between or all of it together. They need to respect the audience. Stop being condescending, insulting, and conflating the words 'progressive' and 'regressive'. They don't mean the same thing and just because you believe something doesn't make you 'progressive' and anyone who disagrees with you an -ist or a -phobe. Hollywood, and Disney/Lucasfilm in particular, have been taken over by spoiled, entitled, talentless, narcissistic teenagers who think they are better than the entirety of human history and the first to have ever thought of anything. They are also CLEARLY bigoted against older people. Astonishingly agist. They insult and demean any older character in any of their media. THEY are the bigots. And on that note... (mic drops)

[michaelcharlesthearchangel]

Fans are enjoying my script for Star Wars Episode X that I wrote & published on faceBook. Luke's back, Rey is a Kenobi. Snoke is Plagueis. The Knights of Ren are fleshed out with names and backstories. Episode VIII & IX are revealed to be a massive Sith Mind trick that will blow your mind.
Everyone is loving it.

[Aenarion]

My mom LOVED watching Judge Judy and her reasoning was the cases. Her being a woman had nothing to do with it.
We would watch her during dinner and it wasnt because Judy or my mom shamed us but because it was entertaining for everyone.
No putting men in their place.

[DarkEagle]

I agree, Coach. I'm not a bit surprised. It explains a lot. I wonder how much they pay their "babysitters?" I'm surprised Disney Lucasfilm didn't offer the author "hush money, " but, as we all suspected, they have no money at hand. What a shameful legacy for my cousin (through marriage). I'm truly disgusted and disappointed.

[aluvrianne]

Given what Iger put into Ride of a Lifetime, there's nothing that shocks me anymore.

[chasehedges]

Star Wars is dead and Modern 2020 Disney killed it.

[treystephens]

nothing can stop me now because i don’t care anymore

[tiredoffools]

I agree with you Coach. I don't give a rat's ass what race or gender the producer, writers, directors, etc are. Just give us great Star Wars... Hell, I'll even accept competent SW at this point.