Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Casts First Transgender Actor in a Major Role
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This would be hilariously embarrassing if this weren't a PR stunt by a disenfranchised harpy on the outs. Ah what the hell, I'll laugh anyway.
I believe Kennedy is being positioned (willingly, because she's actually stupid) for a very public and very messy execution. Indiana 5 is being very obviously positioned to bomb, screening it a month ahead of release with no review embargo, and no paid-for fluffing in the media at all. She's being allowed to douse all of her projects with all the accellerant she can handle with these kinds of 'leaks' popping all over. And all it will take is the company to call her due for gross financial malfeasance to strike the match.
I don't say this out of any kind of silly hope that Star Wars can be saved. To be clear there is little chance that any Disney property will ever get my attention again. There is no forgiveness in my soul for their crimes. But I will still laugh. They kill her or she kills them, either way I win. Best outcome of all of this is that it isn't just Lucasfilm that Disney sells off to remain solvent, but Marvel too. So long as either property has Disney's hands on it, I say, "No, thanks."
The damage to get here though was enormous, they turned starwars from a cash cow with bottomless udders into a franchise that they don't even know if they'd be able to continue to turn a profit on, I can't imagine that was intentional.
Even without a nice little bonus most reviewers would still want to pull their punches and heap on praise just to stay in good graces with one of the most prominent companies in the industry.
I don't claim that the past 10 years were a specially constructed psy-op to discredit Kathleen Kennedy. She wreaked all that havoc with the explicit support of Iger and many others in leadership.
But now that the damage is done, Disney finds itself in a crisis. There's strong indication that this Hulu buyout mess they got into with Comcast is dangerously close to breaking them. Disney has even been soliciting offers on several of its subsidiaries, Lucasfilm included, for the purposes of establishing valuation. That isn't something a company in a good financial place does. Instead, it looks like they're desperate and trying to decide if selling pieces will cover the gap.
What I claim is that Kennedy is a millstone around Disney's neck and they recognize it. She's been in a mad scramble over the last 4 months announcing new projects (new Rey series) and claiming progress on things that hadn't peeped in literal years (Acolyte) all in the lead up to Indy 5. A movie that was finished filming 2 years ago, but reshot and reshot and reshot, and even now the most positive reviews are claiming it is 'inoffensive', but not 'great.' Sent up to Cannes and allowed to wallow there unaided by the usual Disney hidden hand of media cooking.
That can be read as sublime confidence. But I think it isn't. I think they are preparing to pivot on this and drop it all on Kennedy's head, casting her as the sole perpetrator. She isn't, I don't claim that. But that is the play I expect to be tried soon.
What does Kathy have on Disney that she still has a job? They fired a lot of people recently, including the Chief Diversity Officer or whatever.
She's been in Hollywood a long time. Lotta Skeletons
She's the regimental standard, the symbol of their infestation? If they're forced to get rid of their most visible representative, it's proof the industry should get rid of them all.
They may be manipulating her, but before that she sure as fuck was more than happy to shit up a franchise that was special to a lot of people. I’m gonna laugh with you if she actually gets the public ousting she deserves.