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 studies 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 about to make her narrative characteristic directorial debut with “Brilliance,” a futuristic story a couple of world the place non-neurotypical folks — and their presents, which embrace studying folks’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,” received Oscars and Emmys. Her characteristic docs embrace “Track of Lahore” and “A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers.” Most lately, 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 informed us. “Girls might be united in the truth that there has at all times been somebody in our lives who has informed us, ‘It will possibly’t be accomplished’ or ‘There’s solely a lot you are able to do.’ We’re continually inspired to assume that being born a lady means we had been born with restricted decisions and compromised goals.”

“Surprise 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 challenge remains to be taking place or when to count on it.