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.
Can you imagine being hired by a company and in the interview you say, “I enjoy making men (or women) uncomfortable?”
I saw the first two, and that was it...
back in the late 70s I worked for a high end auto stereo and custom shop met all the big wigs and stars of the day Kathleen Kennedy gave me a ton of 1941 movie stuff she was pretty cool but i was not in tune with politics back then
So why would anyone pay money to see a movie that makes them uncomfortable?
I for one, am really enjoying watching disney commit hari-kari.
.......by all means, please continue!!
“We’re in 2024 now, and I think it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to finish driving this franchise right into the ground, leaving nothing but a stinking, smouldering pile of wreckage and fiscal ruin.”
She will certainly have some thinly disguised antisemitic characters, akin to Watto (the hook nosed slave owner of Anikan with a Yiddish accent) as the major villains.
Pissing off your target audience - men - is bound to be a big box office hit as men everywhere go elsewhere.
New target audience will be misandrists and snowflakes dragged in by their ‘friends’ and ‘partners’ to be humiliated
With the creation of Jar Jar Binks.
Put a chick in it, make her gay and lame!
Bingo. Too many other choices, certainly not deserving of my time or money.
Light sabers will now have a non-lethal vibrate mode.
Maybe they can get Dylan Mulvaney to be their front person................
The liberals will double down until they run out of other peoples’ money.........
I like the SyFy miniseries the best. Hated 1984 movie, wanted to like the new one but didn’t.
Indeed.
I’ve noticed that as well.
Not even worth pirating.
THAT'S what they think is wrong.
They want to change it, or think they can make it 50/50%.
However, all they're doing is losing the males, and not getting the females.
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