Disney Gives Dave Filoni Full Star Wars Control

Did Favreau Turn Down Kathleen Kennedy and Bob Iger?

Kathleen Kennedy is no longer in creative control of STAR WARS. That now goes to Dave Filoni, who takes a position that we announced on this channel months ago would be created. But the original target of said position, Jon Favreau, appears to have turned down the offer. Today, we're reporting the news, then getting into a huge amount of analysis about why Dave Filoni leads Star Wars, what it means, and why Kathleen Kennedy is still there.

Kennedy's ACOLYTE EMERGES

Kathleen Kennedy STRIKES BACK!

Fireworks ERUPT at Disney Meeting

Over Box Office FAILURE of Indy 5!

After making a paltry $60 million at the box office domestically, Indy 5 appears to have dialed up a destiny of losing money, and Disney is extremely unhappy with the opening weekend grosses. My Hollywood spies, along with a walk-in source, claim that an emergency executive meeting was called, and that exchanges between Kathleen Kennedy and Bob Iger got very heated, with factions inside Disney and Lucasfilm trying to assign blame for this box office catastrophe. Here are details from a walk-in source, relaying to me the rumor that's spreading through the halls of Lucasfilm about what allegedly happened at that meeting, but of course as with all walk-in sources, take this with an extra teaspoonful of salt!

Bob Iger FURIOUS at KK Source Says!

KK deflects blame on EVERYONE else!

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