The Force 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 below wraps.
Obaid-Chinoy is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who is ready to make her narrative function directorial debut with “Brilliance,” a futuristic story a couple of world the place non-neurotypical individuals — and their presents, 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 Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” gained Oscars and Emmys. Her function docs embody “Song of Lahore” and “A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers.” Most lately, she directed two episodes of Iman Vellani-starrer “Ms. Marvel.”
“My advice to other female directors would be to pay no heed to naysayers,” Obaid-Chinoy informed us. “Women can be united in the fact that there has always been someone in our lives who has told us, ‘It can’t be done’ or ‘There is only so much you can do.’ We are constantly encouraged to think that being born a woman means we were born with limited choices and compromised dreams.”
“Wonder Woman” helmer Patty Jenkins signed on to direct a “Star Wars” pic again in 2020. Originally 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 venture remains to be taking place or when to count on it.