Since this all seems to revolve around Kennedy backing up Kasdan over M&L I can’t say that I’m too worried. I’m as confused as everybody else that it took this long for her to make this decision, but I’m glad that Kasdan’s vision is being prioritised here. I don’t see why everyone is saying it’s Kennedy who’s trying to tell the story here, from what I’ve read it seems like they’re trying to preserve Kasdan’s story, and M&L apparently wasn’t living up to his script. If they can find a good director to reshoot all the important character moments, while ILM keeps working on the special effect scenes (which I doubt were compromised in any way by M&L’s style), I think this film could turn out pretty well.

I never had much hope for M&L’s involvement anyway, but was always cautiously optimistic thanks to Kasdan being the writer. If all of this really is about staying try to Kasdan’s script, then it might turn out to have been a good, albeit late, decision.