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TLJ was far too important of a moneymaker/film to go PC with - but they did it anyway, and paid for it with Solo (IMO). Please understand, I don't know anything about Ms Lee; perhaps she was the best candidate? I don't know. I do know that Disney is being sure to virtue signal at every turn these days: lots of PC programming, checking off all of the SJW subjects in their films, etc. Their actions, and the politically-laden recent films like Zootopia and Last Jedi make me suspect their intentions at every turn. They brought this suspicion on themselves. This is exactly why affirmative action is such a scourge on our society today.
As an aside: You imply that she directed Frozen? I honestly don't know, but if they really wanted the person who made that film a mega-hit they would have hired the couple that wrote "Let It Go." That movie's success mostly starts and ends there.
She was brought in as a fixer after she finished her work with Wreck-It-Ralph. The Snow Queen was imploding (again) and she had to write a new screenplay and basically take over the production. She was given free reign to do whatever she wanted by Catmull.
There would be no Let it Go and no Frozen without Jennifer Lee. In the original script, Elsa was evil and that song wasn’t a part of it.
Catmull, one of the actual co-founders of Pixar, is 73. It’s time for a new generation to take the helm.
Catmull does have a good eye for talent though. I mean, he hired John Lasseter to work at Pixar after Disney fired him.