The final three movies of the “Skywalker Saga” were crappy fanfiction elevated to canon, and Kathleen Kennedy has managed to devalue the IP and legacy of not only Star Wars, but Lucasfilm and Disney as a whole. When Disney bought Star Wars for $4 billion and renewed the franchise we all thought “hey at least it won’t be as bad as the Prequels!” WRONG.

At least the prequels could sell toys and video games, let alone carry a single overarching plot rather than cheaply-retconned contradiction-filled theme park ride to distract you from the incoherence of everything going on, making you realize nothing is actually going on. There are no stakes when your protagonist is just magically good at everything and never loses.

Nobody would wait in line for a Battlefront exclusively with new trilogy characters. There aren’t gonna be any “Boba Fett” action figures that gain in value over the years and inspire franchises and fanfiction. The IP is forever tarnished because Kathleen Kennedy and her lack of vision tried to please everyone, and ended up pleading no one.

Meanwhile the Marvel Cinematic Universe is able to pump out 23 movies over 10 years and only have a couple really bad ones, but you forget about them because quality like Captain America: Winter Soldier, Dr. Strange, Avengers: Infinity War & Endgame makes them seem like blips on the radar. Kevin Feige and his team meticulously mapped out the trajectory for 10+ years of cinema, linking together stories for a coherent metaseries. Why couldn’t someone do the same with Star Wars? Maybe that’s what you get when you hedge your bets behind JJ “let’s just cram all the plot development into the final act making everything else irrelevant” Abrams.

Rise of Skywalker was so bad you can see why Rian Johnson took it in a different direction. And if Kathleen Kennedy knew quality control, as any studio president should, she would have prevented him from going in a different direction in the first place. All it takes is vision and conviction both of which Kennedy clearly seems to lack.

Meanwhile in 7 short episodes that don’t have to be viewed in any particular order Jon Favreau has been able to craft a coherent plot and introduce main as well as side characters who can relate with audiences for reasons outside of dialogue explicitly telling you to care about them. There is a level of humanity and risk shared between “The Mandalorian” and the original trilogy— and even the prequels looking past diatribes about sand getting everywhere. Favreau has crafted “The Mandalorian” as the flagship Disney+ program. People are getting Disney+ simply so they can watch it. He and his collaborators have managed to make audiences relate more to a dude in a helmet blocking any facial expressions than any amount of award-winning actors or CGI could in these milquetoast stains on a series that literally redefined cinema’s role in pop culture and took it to the next level.

So by signing this petition it is our humble request that Disney immediately fire Kathleen Kennedy for ruining Star Wars worse than George Lucas at his most decadent, and that they replace her with Jon Favreau, someone who cares about the source material and whose passion resonates throughout the work. If the old trilogies were human, this was a human centipede.

Instead of having a trilogy of short term half-misses and two half-decent spin-offs, they could have hired people who actually cared about the quality of the cinematic universe instead of short term profits. And more importantly to Disney and their investors, they would have created new IP that could sell toys 40 years from now. So Disney, if you want to maximize your profits, do yourself a favor and promote Favreau. He’ll take Star Wars to places the MCU couldn’t even go.