Breitbart Reports: The best news Star Wars fans have received since we watched in disgust as Luke Skywalker tossed away his father’s lightsaber in The Last Jedi (2017), is that Lucasfilm would dump franchise serial killer Kathleen Kennedy by the end of this year.

Well, once again, Kennedy has decided to crush the hopes and dreams of Star Wars fans by announcing that she is not retiring. All the news about her retiring was fake news.

Or, is it…?

After six paragraphs of far-left Deadline shamelessly sucking up to Kennedy — “Kennedy arguably is the most successful female producer/executive in Hollywood history … a first-ballot Hall of Famer, not someone who deserves to be batted around like a piñata” — the CorporateSpeak is off the charts.

The whole interview is premised on the news of her retirement as Lucasfilm boss being fake news. Here is her answer to the first question…

“The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies. That is the first thing that’s important to say. I am not retiring.”

Okay, but then we get this…

“What’s happening at Lucasfilm is I have been talking for quite some time with both Bob and Alan about what eventual succession might look like.”

And then, later in the interview, we get this exchange:

DEADLINE: How far down the road do you expect before a change gets made and then you go off and produce these two big Star Wars things?

KENNEDY: We’ll probably make an announcement months or a year out, and I have every intention of sticking around to help that person be successful. I’m already producing the Mandalorian movie, and Shawn Levy’s is after that.

The “change” here is Kennedy stepping down as Lucasfilm boss “months or a year out.”