Well so far he hasn’t done anything for Star Wars or Star Trek for that matter. He was a producer on the Fox X-men series and did two lousy attempts on adapting the Dark Phoenix Saga the second of which he directed, and which closed out the Fox X-men franchise on a whimper.
I guess his name is in the credits of Logan and Deadpool and Wolverine and Lucasfilm wants that kind of cachet. I mean look they desperately want Sean Levy to make a Star Wars movie as well.
Hasn’t done anything for Star Wars? You do realize he was involved in the early story stages of TFA and R1, right? He even got a thank-you credit in both movies. He also basically co-created Rebels, alongside Filoni.
He is not the reason why Rogue one was good. That was mostly John Knoll, Gareth Edwards, Tony Gilroy. TFA and Rebels are awful to me and further proof Kinberg is trash.