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 likes to make men uncomfortable unless it’s Muslim men. Then she is very, very careful. /spit
I was immediately turned off by the scrolling intro:
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away........
Which basically told me I was going to watch a FAIRY TALE and it was exactly that, a Fairy Tale, set in Space with robots instead of dwarves or elves.................
Entertainment what’s that it’s Brainwashing now and brainwashing doesn’t sell ,LOL
It died in 1977.
It is now a Zombie Movie...................
The Force is female and now is generated from Midol-Chlorians.
Driving away 65% of your audience is not a good business model.......................
Disney must be run by the dumbest, most clueless, trash on the planet.
“ 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.’”
That’s all well and good, in principle, but reality shows that the full implementation of her theory gets her a sock in the mouth by “uncomfortable” males. Women behave this way because men have allowed it. She would do well to remember that. Don’t turn us back into cave men unless you want us to act like cave men. You wouldn’t like the result.
I have always believed that Lucas stole a lot of his Straw Wars ideas from Dune..............
Many of us were so looking forward to the original Dune release. We were terribly disappointed.
Ah, Star Farts. We can feel the power of the farce. Well, this one of N proofs (where N is a large number) that the left ruins everything they touch. I’m very glad that I was there when it was a great story. And it somehow made billions without any silly insertions of nonsensical sidelines about you know whos, you know whats, and assorted other whatevers.
Yes, Liberals....................
Hahaha... I see what you did there!
“We were terribly disappointed”
Personally, I couldn’t follow the original. Totally lost. 😵💫
“Straw Wars” 🤭
I am beginning to think the media companies are no longer primarily being run to make a profit. Instead, their primary goal is to reshape culture. There are enough large investment funds and investors that will invest in these media companies to maintain an adequate stock price such that they never go bankrupt. It is like church donations.
Disney leadership makes more money than they can spend and their shareholders must be deaf dumb and blind OR radical leftists. Leadership isn't worried about a good product, just their leftist activism.
“PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE HER GAY!”
😁.........................
The idea that now they're intending to really finish off Star Wars by the dual disaster of continuing the bogus Daisy Ridley character and bringing in a director intent on doing her imitation of that fat slob Chris Christie in being there just to spew hatred, no thanks. If you cannot learn from what your fan base has been telling you with their feet while looking across the way at Marvel and seeing the carnage from dropping the Brie Larson neutron fan bomb into the MCU, you deserve what's about to happen.
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