Kathleen Kennedy claims that Lucasfilm’s departure from the Skywalker Saga is “vital” 

Following the poor reaction to Solo: A Star Wars Story, Kathleen Kennedy said Lucasfilm is concentrating on expanding George Lucas’ universe beyond the Skywalker trilogy, rather than telling fresh tales with famous characters performed by new actors.

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Lucasfilm’s president discussed the lessons learned over the last decade of exploring a galaxy far, far away. This includes lessons learned through fan and critical response, such as casting Alden Ehrenreich as a teenage Han Solo after Harrison Ford created the character and portrayed him in many films.

Kennedy presented Solo to screenwriter Larry Kasdan (whom she has known “forever”) as “one of the first ideas that came up after the firm was sold,” she added, and both “genuinely thought at the time it was a brilliant concept.”

But doing an origin story for one of the franchise’s most adored characters ended up being a “learning moment” — and one that saw Donald Glover as a younger Lando Calrissian garner the most of the accolades for the Solo-focused picture.

As Kennedy said. “Some people have talked about how, well, maybe Solo should have been a TV show. But even doing Solo as a TV show without Harrison Ford as Han Solo … it’s the same thinking,” added, “Maybe I should have recognized this before. We would never make Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford. Having just finished the fifth movie, I can tell you, there wasn’t a day I wasn’t on set where I wasn’t like, ‘Yes — this is Indiana Jones.’”

Kennedy went on to claim that the company has now applied similar strategy to all of the characters from the original Star Wars trilogy. “We can’t do anything with Luke Skywalker that isn’t Mark Hamill,” she added later in the interview. “We’re not going to try to accomplish it on the spur of the moment.”

This shift in how the studio views the Star Wars world was “essential” to the franchise’s future, she claims. It will also influence whether fans see further chapters dedicated to the Skywalker tale.

“Just staying within the construct of George’s storytelling, to keep chipping away at that, I think would be wrong,” she explained. “It’s our job to step away now, but still have a connection to the mythology that George created. That won’t stop. But we are moving on from the Skywalker saga. That’s what’s taking a lot of time, discussion and thought right now.”

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