states quote sources indicate that there were never any discussions to fire kathleen kennedy despite rampant online speculation and rumors i guess i'm not surprised to hear that given you know just what a colossal failure it would take to remove uh a strong independent woman who don't need no man like kathleen kennedy uh you know even though inks inexplicably she lost money on a star wars film which i would have thought was impossible she had the multiple director debacle that was the last jedi she had what was also another debacle in the rise of skywalker essentially the star wars franchise under the mouse house has been an absolute disaster with the tiny exception of the mandalorian which in and of itself still couldn't avoid controversy in the whole gina carano situation sutton even quoted one source who told him quote it's not like kathleen kennedy wrote or directed any of those films in disney's minds they brought in billions to their bank accounts another source told sutton kathleen kennedy won't be lucasfilm's president at this point only if she decides to retire strong disney strongly believes she will continue guiding star wars to greater heights the source also added she will have the power she's always had now there's been a lot of rumors around whether or not um she would be removed uh and have somebody like kevin feige take over but that always seemed really far-fetched to me given that kevin feige has his plate absolutely overflowing with terrible phase four marvel films the rumor is not out of left field current ceo bob chapic has lavished praise on kathleen kennedy for her leadership at lucasfilm back in march chappic appeared at a virtual conference hosted by morgan stanley where he was asked by morgan stanley's ben swineburn what are you guys doing why are you and kevin and the team doing what are you doing to make sure marvel continues to thrive particularly as you weave in disney plus blah blah blah in response to the question about marvel studios and kevin feige chapek answered by praising kennedy i would say the situation is the same for marvel it is for lucas and it goes to speak to the talent of not only kevin and his team but kathleen kennedy and her team over at lucas we are really fortunate to have both groups led by stellar creative talent chappic added now if you were thinking that bob chappic was going to criticize uh kathleen kennedy publicly uh obviously that wasn't going to happen so i suppose there really isn't any surprise here um that he said something nice about her but i know a lot of the star wars faithful had been hoping that there would be some change at the leadership position simply because in many ways the buck stops with kathleen kennedy and i don't think even fans even die hard fans of let's say the last jedi i think that they would if
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