‘Star Wars’: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy celebrates being first woman director
Daisy Ridley is returning as Rey in a new Star Wars movie directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy of Ms. Marvel and written by Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders, making Obaid-Chinoy the first woman and person of colour to direct a feature movie in the science fiction franchise.
The likes of George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand, J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson have all directed Star Wars movies before and now Obaid-Chinoy joins the exclusive list.
“I’m very thrilled about the project because I feel what we’re about to create is something very special,” Obaid-Chinoy recently told CNN. “We’re in 2024 now, and it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape a story in a galaxy far, far away.”
Little is known of the plot of the new film, but Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said that it will focus on Rey over a decade after the end of The Rise of Skywalker.
“Well we’re 15 years out from Rise of Skywalker, so we’re post-war, post-First Order, and the Jedi are in disarray,” Kennedy told IGN.
“There’s a lot of discussion around, ‘Who are the Jedi? What are they doing? What’s the state of the galaxy?’ She’s attempting to rebuild the Jedi Order, based on the books, based on what she promised Luke, so that’s where we’re going.”
Kennedy also said that the spirit of Luke Skywalker would be important to Rey’s storyline.
