Following up on yesterday’s big news that saw Lucasfilm part ways with directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller from the production of 2018’s young Han Solo film, Variety adds that their departure from the project was the result of them butting heads with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.
Their exit comes after months of conflict with producer Kathleen Kennedy, others from her LucasFilm team, and co-writer and executive producer Lawrence Kasdan, and the two directors hired to infuse the “Star Wars” universe with a tongue-in-cheek sensibility.
Miller and Lord were stunned to find that they were not being granted freedom to run the production in the manner that they were accustomed to. They balked at Kennedy’s tight control on the set.
A person with knowledge of the production said that the chemistry between the directors and Kennedy was never right.
