After `Rise of Skywalker´ and Baby Yoda, Kathleen Kennedy´s plan for `Star Wars´ and beyond
(WorldNews Business)

San Francisco - Rob Bredow, head of Lucasfilm´s visual effects division Industrial Light & Magic, came to Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy in early 2018 with a bold idea for filming Jon Favreau´s upcoming TV series, `The Mandalorian.` The filmmakers wanted to use what they´d been calling the `stage of the future`: a set wrapped in LED screens to create the virtual backgrounds for the show. The company had used the technique previously to create the Millennium Falcon´s Kessel Run in `Solo: A Star Wars Story,` but never at the scale Bredow was proposing. Kennedy, however, recalled her days working on Steven Spielberg´s `Jurassic Park,` which was greenlit before they were...