Five upcoming Star Wars movies look increasingly at risk following the studio shakeup at Lucasfilm. In mid-January, Kathleen Kennedy stepped down as president after 14 years running the company, closing the era that produced the sequel trilogy, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and The Mandalorian. Dave Filoni, the longtime animation chief behind Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Ahsoka, replaced her as president and chief creative officer, while veteran executive Lynwen Brennan stepped up as co-president to run the business side.The new leadership inherited a giant brand and a thin theatrical schedule. With The Mandalorian and Grogu now out of theaters, Lucasfilm’s only confirmed big-screen plans are a 50th anniversary rerelease of the original 1977 film, Star Wars: A New Hope, on February 19, 2027, and Star Wars: Starfighter, the Ryan Gosling adventure from Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy, on May 28, 2027. The studio also has a long record of announcing movies that never got made. Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss saw their project evaporate, and a planned trilogy from The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson never moved forward either.Kennedy addressed that backlog head-on in her exit interview, and the picture she painted was bleak. Several announced films are on hold or waiting on decisions from the incoming regime, while a planned trilogy from X-Men producer Simon Kinberg, which she said would take the franchise deep into the 2030s, appears next in line. Between her comments and the reporting around the transition, these five movies now face the most serious doubts about ever reaching theaters. Read full article on The Direct.