For the past several days, the internet has been focused on the astounding Independence Day failure of Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny, which was beaten on its opening day by an anti-human trafficking indie movie starring Jim Caviezel, Sound of Freedom. Of course Indy 5 will, and already has, raked in far more than the Christian-themed film based on the true story of OUR Rescue founder Tim Ballard, but the latter film already made its $14 million budget back while going toe to toe with a $300 million CGI-laden Disney-Lucasfilm picture. But the real question people should be asking is: will this embarrassment finally be the end of Kathleen Kennedy?

Since seizing the throne atop Lucasfilm in the wake of its sale to the House of Mouse back in 2012, Kennedy has presided over reboots and reshuffles and Disney+ launches that have, with few exceptions, amounted to a steadily spiraling series of failures. The excitement around The Force Awakens steadily decreased over the following films, to the point that the last episode of the sequel trilogy did less than half the box office. And the output from Lucasfilm on Disney+, while initially impressive with Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian, has meandered with a mostly disappointing Obi-Wan Kenobi series, a very disappointing Boba Fett series and a Willow series so disappointing it was yanked from the service within a year of its launch. Is everyone excited for The Acolyte? I bet you are.

Kennedy’s decision to hire young, up and coming directors like Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson backfired when she had to hire Tony Gilroy to scramble to fix Edwards’s mistakes in reshoots of Rogue One (the most iconic scene in the film being one of them), and when Johnson’s decision to “subvert expectations” went so far it left many viewers going “what the hell was that?” before returning to the bland jumble of J.J. Abrams for The Rise of Skywalker.

[If you’re wondering as well about this particular trainwreck failing perpetually upward, I hope this doesn’t paywall on y’all. Didn’t when I went through. ~ Beege]