The Power is with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: the “Ms. Marvel” director has been tapped to helm a “Star Wars” movie. Deadline stories that the script remains to be being written, and plot particulars stay beneath wraps.
Obaid-Chinoy is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who is about to make her narrative function directorial debut with “Brilliance,” a futuristic story a few world the place non-neurotypical individuals — and their items, which embody studying individuals’s secrets and techniques by how they fold their arms — are demonized by society.
Two of Obaid-Chinoy’s shorts, “Saving Face” and “A Lady within the River: The Worth of Forgiveness,” gained Oscars and Emmys. Her function docs embody “Track of Lahore” and “A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers.” Most not too long ago, she directed two episodes of Iman Vellani-starrer “Ms. Marvel.”
“My recommendation to different feminine administrators could be to pay no heed to naysayers,” Obaid-Chinoy advised us. “Ladies will be united in the truth that there has all the time been somebody in our lives who has advised us, ‘It will possibly’t be achieved’ or ‘There’s solely a lot you are able to do.’ We’re consistently inspired to suppose that being born a lady means we had been born with restricted selections and compromised desires.”
“Marvel Lady” helmer Patty Jenkins signed on to direct a “Star Wars” pic again in 2020. Initially slated for a 2023 launch, the movie, titled “Rogue Squadron,” was pulled from Disney’s schedule this September. It’s unclear whether or not the challenge remains to be occurring or when to anticipate it.
Supply: Women And Hollywood