Michelle Rejwan Steps Down as Lucasfilm Senior VP, Will Stay as Producer for Lucasfilm and Disney
Michelle Rejwan, who was promoted to Senior Vice President of Live Action Development & Production at Lucasfilm during the summer of 2019, is now leaving the position. Rejwan will return to producing for Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios overall, operating out of the company’s offices, Deadline is reporting.
Rejwan’s job as Senior VP involved overseeing all live-action content development for Lucasfilm, which included the production of the Disney Plus series Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor. She was an executive producer on those, as well as Lawrence Kasdan’s docuseries Light & Magic and the upcoming Willow sequel series. Even though she is stepping down from the position, she will still be producing upcoming Star Wars projects, including Taika Waititi’s long-awaited movie, which is still in the early stages of development.
The former Bad Robot producer became a member of the Lucasfilm Creative “Brain Trust” in 2015, four years prior to taking on the Senior VP role, where she served as a co-producer on J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens and as an executive producer on The Rise of Skywalker. With Bad Robot, Rejwan co-produced Star Trek: Into Darkness and was an associate producer on Super 8. As Senior VP for Lucasfilm, she was essentially Kathleen Kennedy’s second-in-command and helped shape the current and upcoming slate of Star Wars movies and Disney Plus series.
No new projects for Lucasfilm or Disney were announced as part of her new producer deal.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
