Last night saw the big news hit that Kathleen Kennedy plans on stepping down and retiring from Lucasfilm and Star Wars by the end of the year.

While it has not officially been announced, that hasn’t stopped speculation about who could replace Kathleen Kennedy — and one name happens to be Marvel’s .

It’s known Feige is a huge Star Wars fans as he included Easter Eggs in various MCU films. He was also set to develop and release his own Star Wars movie, which has since been placed on the backburner.

THR goes over who could possibly replace Kathleen Kennedy, which includes names we’ve gone over with and . Some others they say could be in the mix include , (interestingly enough, Watts worked on the X-Men movies with Simon Kinberg who is supposed to be developing a new Star Wars trilogy, and Kinberg’s pal also recently became Lucasfilm’s new VP of Development; Watts also helped launch the Deadpool movies), and (who previously worked with Abrams).

Regarding Feige, THR says that ““

However, THR goes on to say it looks as if Feige might have missed his opportunity to take over Star Wars due to the downfall of the MCU post-Endgame.

The site says that “Feige is focused on recalibrating Marvel.”

As my own insiders have said and has been confirmed, that includes the retooled Daredevil: Born Again, which gets released next week on Disney+. THR also adds that means “relaunching Fantastic Four this summer and focusing on the new Avengers movies, which will shoot this year.“

“He’s the only one that makes sense, but he needs to focus on Marvel,” said one Disney insider, according to the site.

It’s expected the big announcement about how will replace Kathleen Kennedy as the new head of Lucasfilm will be at Star Wars Celebration Tokyo.  Who is your pick to take over Star Wars? Let us know in the comments below.