The point is Kathleen Kennedy has worked on more movie productions as well as having greater success. Perhaps she knows something about movies after all of her experience.
Ah but that wasn’t the point I paraphrased in my post. The article was saying Kathleen Kennedy believes she knows how to “bake the Star Wars cake”. She has never been a part of a good Star Wars movie, and there have been several production screw-ups in the last couple years.
If your point is “she’s successful because her films make the most money” then would you say Michael Bay is also good at what he does? And further, what does it matter to you or I how much money the film makes? In a few years, the film isn’t going to be any more enjoyable or less enjoyable to watch at home because it made $100 million or $500 million at the box office. So what was your point? If you are a Disney shareholder or personally invested money in those films, congrats I guess.
For the record, I agree with Kathleen Kennedy’s decision to part ways with these guys. They were seemingly a very poor fit for a Star Wars movie.
But I also take the side of the directors, that once they were hired, there shouldn’t have been undue micromanagement of THEIR film. It’s a collaborative process, other people, the studio, cast, crew, they are all going to have input and the director(s) need to be able to work with all of these people in a collaborative way, but at some point their vision may become compromised and it’s no longer their film anymore. It sounds like that’s what happened. If Kasdan and Kennedy want to direct the film from the studio, why not just direct it themselves?
All of this could have and should have been solved a long time ago, well before principal photography, in my opinion.