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You can almost hear the filmmakers celebrating tonight in their treetop homes, banging giant drums and singing the “Yub Nub” song like the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi. So many writers and directors have been jerked around by Kathleen Kennedy on Star Wars projects, hired with great fanfare, only to be squeezed and second-guessed and eventually fired without much explanation, that her exit as president of Lucasfilm today could be seen as almost cathartic. We all knew it was coming—hell, I told you it was coming last year and again at the beginning of the month—but if you’ve still got P.T.S.D. … breathe out…
