Posted on 01/04/2024 8:01:35 AM PST by Red Badger
A sure way to make a movie flop is to hire a director who alienates a big chunk of the audience before the film is even released.
Will Disney ever learn? Not until it goes broke, it would seem.
The company has hired activist and documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct the next “Star Wars” movie, slated to be released in 2026.
Obaid-Chinoy is on record saying, “We’re in 2024 now, and I think it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far, far away.”
In case Obaid-Chinoy isn’t aware, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has led the “Star Wars” franchise for a decade. So much for breaking the glass ceiling. Kennedy’s been there, done that.
In a 2015 interview with Obaid-Chinoy, Jon Stewart observed that there seems to be a thread running through Obaid-Chinoy’s work — the idea that “men are a**holes.”
Stewart’s comment caused Obaid-Chinoy to giggle like a schoolgirl, exposing her hatred for roughly half the human population. I wonder if she holds male dogs or cats in equal disdain.
“I like to make men uncomfortable,” Obaid-Chinoy said in the interview. “I enjoy making men uncomfortable.”
What production company in its right mind would hire someone who obviously despises men to direct a film for a franchise worth billions of dollars? Disney would.
People — men, women, children — don’t go to “Star Wars” movies to feel uncomfortable about themselves. It doesn’t take a market research firm to figure that out.
Obaid-Chinoy went on, “It is important to be able to look into the eyes of a man and say, ‘I am here and recognize that. And recognize that I am working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable, and it should make you uncomfortable because you need to change your attitude.'”
I don’t think she needs to worry. If Obaid-Chinoy brings that message to “Star Wars,” it will be recognized. But it is unlikely to change anyone’s attitude. Normal people aren’t going to pay the price of admission to be hammered by yet another member of the woke elite.
Disney is on a roll of making bad decisions — and losing money in the process.
In 2023, for the first time in years, it lost the overall box office crown. Choosing Obaid-Chinoy to direct a Star Wars film will in all likelihood be the latest in a long string of missteps for the Mouse House.
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh agrees. In a Wednesday X post, he stated, “This movie is destined to be Disney’s biggest flop yet.”
If Disney allows man-hating Obaid-Chinoy to “shape the story in a galaxy far, far away,” it better learn how to market the film to that faraway galaxy instead of this one.
When will Disney figure out it is supposed to be in the business of making entertaining films, not social engineering?
At the rate it’s going, not very soon.
She is Pakistani, so her view of men may be a bit understandably warped.
Is she also a lesbian?
I’m a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie.... galaxy far far away
It’s fiction......
What a bitch
I went to the FIRST SW in 1977 after all the hype.
Never went to or saw another one...................
And not even good fiction..................
So is Heather Has Two Mommies. Won't be partaking of either work.
Skipped my last day in High School to stand in line to see opening night. I thought it was great, but really didn’t get into the remaining ones.
How the Vietnam War Inspired George Lucas’ Star Wars Vision
(It was based on his admiration for the Viet Cong)
https://www.cbr.com/george-lucas-vietnam-war-star-wars-inspiration/
“Put a chick in it, and make her gay!”
Same
This may gall some people but I noticed decades ago that if an adventure movie is scripted or directed by a woman it will not be up to par as other adventure movies. That also goes for si-fi movies.
Though she was educated in a Christian elementary school, she identifies as being Muslim. So we have a Muslim Pakistani feminist wanting to re-create Star Wars and a Female forward, male diminished franchise.
Does she, or anyone around her, remember that the Star Wars fan base is a solid 70-75% male base? You can go to any Star Wars fan “Cons” and it’s wall to wall dudes except for a few female cos-players.
+1 on SW
I will be seeing Dune Part Two when it goes to DVD and streaming however.
I found the 2021 remake very enjoyable.
WAY easier to follow and understand that the 1984 original.
Driving away an audience is not an effective propaganda technique. They must be done with recruitment.
How the Vietnam War Inspired George Lucas’ Star Wars Vision
(It was based on his admiration for the Viet Cong)
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Lucas cherry picked influences from a LOT of places.
The storm troopers were borrowed from Nazi Germany.
I’ve read that the first concept of a ‘space opera’ was inspired by some Japanese sword fighting fugitive movie (forget the name)
I have noticed myself that A LOT of the place names are slight variations of those borrowed from the old testament
Me too....................
As far as I am concerned, that Star Wars franchise died years ago.
The Star Wars fanbase is significantly majority-male, so she's targeted more than half her potential ticket buyers with an actual promise that they will hate the movie.
Hey Disney. Don't move her over to sales, make her a door-person in the corporate lobby. Or give her a few hundred million to make your next flop. Your call.
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