Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Tapped to Direct a “Star Wars” Pic

The Pressure 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 ready to make her narrative function directorial debut with “Brilliance,” a futuristic story a few 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 Lady within the River: The Value of Forgiveness,” gained Oscars and Emmys. Her function docs embody “Tune 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 can be to pay no heed to naysayers,” Obaid-Chinoy instructed us. “Ladies could be united in the truth that there has all the time been somebody in our lives who has instructed us, ‘It could’t be completed’ or ‘There’s solely a lot you are able to do.’ We’re continuously inspired to suppose that being born a girl means we have been born with restricted decisions and compromised desires.”

“Marvel Girl” 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 mission remains to be taking place or when to count on it.