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Back in November of 2018, I wrote a blog post about the possibility of The Story Group not being a big fan of JJ Abrams. This theory came from a Twitter user by the name of The Church of JJ.

The LFL story group and KK hated JJ’s power over the production of 7, he could basically tell them no when they told him to do something in the movie he didn’t want. They were really salty about this and that’s why TLJ rendered TFA irrelevant — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

Yeah bro, this is just based on a mixture of things that I have heard on various podcasts and stuff, Ken Napzok from Collider said that JJ didn’t collaborate with the story group but Rian did. — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

I remember Pablo Hidalgo saying that he wasn’t a fan of TFA and there were a lot of rumours that JJ shut out the story group from all decisions involving the narrative of TFA. — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

here is my first piece of evidencehttps://t.co/0x5PaAXY44 go to 14:51 — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

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Go to 24:00 of that video, Ken elaborates more on it that JJ didn’t collaborate with LFL during 7, I tend to believe that he might tried to at first then was like you guys are nuts i’m just gonna retreat to the Bad Robot lot and make the movie from there — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

Evidence #2 https://t.co/D5QOkQabid This is probably the weakest but it does make a whole lot of sense, if there were issues between her/story group and any other director they would’ve been fired or ghosted by someone like Gilroy instantly but cos JJ is who is that didnt happen — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

Can someone explain the “JJ and KK not on speaking terms” rumor?

Evidence #3 https://t.co/bxJfX69mXI It is important to know that the Mod said OP gave some verification on this being 50/50 legit, it said that the story group didn’t like TFA a month before Ken said on Jedi Council that JJ didnt work it them, so there seems to be a pattern — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

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https://t.co/1pLQXh05qY 33:10 there was strife between her and JJ but they got it together, now I believe if it was again any one else they would have been either ghosted or fired and I do think the strife was over the story and JJ not collaborating with LFLSG — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

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Harloff says it was a little thing but I believe that LFLSG weren’t happy with JJ shutting them out of the creative decisions in TFA’s narrative, KK stepped in and JJ probably took this to Iger and KK probably lost and JJ moved on making the movie — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

Adding this to the pilehttps://t.co/99Ifj9U8LQhttps://t.co/wU3cHq6Uqx Pablo has since deleted those tweets however they did exist and here clearly did not seem a fan of TFA pic.twitter.com/BETORI1YQE — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

Anyone else get the feeling the people at Lucasfilm enjoyed working with Rian Johnson on “Last Jedi” much more than they did working with J. J. Abrams on “Force Awakens”?



What movie coming out in 2017 do you have the least/most hope for?

Also the other big hard evidence is whenever you are on twitter all the LFL employees like Pablo and Bryan are still kissing Rian’s ass everyday and they barely ever praise JJ, who is the guy right now making a Star Wars movie — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 6, 2018

Yes, I’m pretty sure this theory is accurate. Grace Randolph reported on it back in June saying Lucasfilm was a “house divided” between JJ and KK. She has legit sources… https://t.co/4Mk9jIHDoY — Dataracer (@Dataracer117) November 7, 2018

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100% believe that KK loyalists are indeed the story group — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 7, 2018

Of course they are. There is also that Variety (i think) article that has them all at KK’s house for a photoshoot article. Carrie Beck, Kiri Hart, Lywelyn Brennan, etc. All KK hires running the Lucasfilm “No Story Group.” https://t.co/CeU06b9qLi — Dataracer (@Dataracer117) November 7, 2018

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hmmmm pic.twitter.com/l58nz6F6bE — The Church of JJ (@KenobiJj) November 7, 2018

More recently, we’ve read potential inside leaks from WDW Pro regarding Kiri Hart and her departure from The Story Group, along with comments regarding Carrie Beck.

In it, WDW Pro states that both Carrie Beck and Margaret Kerrison didn’t like George Lucas’ Star Wars. He also states that Kiri Hart only saw Star Wars as a vehicle for socio-political change. If JJ Abrams reveres Star Wars as much as he claims, that could be cause for the rift.

It would certainly explain some of the bad blood with Ben Burtt, and why that bad blood took place during TLJ production, but not TFA production.

We then read a statement from the same WDW Pro, stating that The Story Group had largely been dismantled.

Now comes a statement from another leaker, ki adi moonshine at milleniumfalcom.com. He lays out a number of spoilers for TROS. VGculturehq.com reports:

I’m not really interested in the spoilers. But this statement did interest me:

Another statement suggesting a rift between JJ Abrams and The Lucasfilm Story Group. How much truth is there in all of this? Who knows. We’ll have to wait for NDAs to expire to get the real story.

Thanks to RayRay Jackson for the tip.

Originally published here.