Lucasfilm will now be run by Kathleen Kennedy, one of the most powerful and successful female producers in Hollywood history. She’s also Spielberg’s right-hand. Together they Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, she was the executive producer on the Gremlins and Back to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Goonies and E.T. Somehow I think Lucasfilm is in good hands.

What Star Wars needs now is a new direction, a new focus, and yet someone who knows the series roots and is in sync with George, and Kathleen is the person. Fanboys will be fanboys and haters will be haters, but doing a little research into finding out how the company will be run, and by whom changes the story completely. We’re getting one of the very best people in the industry spearheading this new direction, and personally I couldn’t be any more excited.

I’m baffled by the negativity surrounding the announcement of a new trilogy set in the future. Seriously, Star Wars fans? Isn’t that what everyone wanted? New movies that aren’t creatively controlled by George Lucas?