Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct one among three new Star Wars movies | Leisure Information

Pakistan-born Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy would be the first girl and particular person of color to direct an episode of the blockbuster film franchise.

Pakistan-born Oscar-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is about to turn out to be the primary girl and particular person of color to direct a Star Wars movie.

Studio executives on Friday introduced three new Star Wars motion pictures are within the making, with the primary slated for launch in 2025.

Obaid-Chinoy will direct a movie set 15 years after the top of the final film, starring British actor Daisy Ridley as she returns to the function of Rey, the heroine of the final trilogy, which wound up in 2019 to combined critiques.

The brand new movie will comply with Rey’s efforts to revive the Jedi order.

Simply revealed at #StarWarsCelebration, Kathleen Kennedy welcomes James Mangold, Dave Filoni & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on stage as future administrators of three new upcoming Star Wars movies. pic.twitter.com/v2os1tdHJH

— Star Wars (@starwars) April 7, 2023

Obaid-Chinoy, who has two Oscars for documentaries denouncing violence towards ladies, stated she was “drawn to the hero’s journey” within the Star Wars universe.

“I spent the higher a part of my lifetime assembly actual heroes who’re overcoming oppressive regimes and battling not possible odds, and I believe that’s the center of Star Wars,” she stated.

Obaid-Chinoy directed final 12 months’s Ms Marvel tv sequence that includes a Muslim superhero.

Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, the studio purchased by Disney in 2012, stated every of the three movies would cowl completely different durations within the Star Wars narrative. And every can have a unique director.

James Mangold, himself a two-time Oscar nominee, will helm one other of the movies after directing the newest within the Indiana Jones sequence, which is about for launch later this 12 months.

His movie will take a look at the origins of the Jedi order, 1000’s of years earlier than the unique storyline.

And the third movie will probably be directed by Dave Filoni, an outdated hand within the Stars Wars universe, having produced a number of tv sequence together with the wildly profitable The Mandalorian, now in its third season.

Followers on the conference additionally bought a primary view of US actress Rosario Dawson within the function of Ahsoka, a feminine Jedi warrior who first appeared in an animated sequence.

The character has been similar to hit with the Star Wars fanbase that she has graduated to a tv sequence, out in August.