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.
I’d rather watch the Star Wars Christmas Special.
To each his own, but I could never get into Dune. I didn’t/don’t want to see the Caliphate conquer space or any other Muslim nonsense.
You could probably argue that it is not at all about that, but as I read the books back in the 70s, that’s what came out to me.
When a steady diet of nutraloaf doesn’t correct a prisoner’s misbehavior. the prisoner is forced to watch the Star Wars Christmas Special.
It’s very effective.
Don’t let the ACLU find out.
These morons go to a lot of trouble to lose billions of dollars.
As a former Broadcast TV & Film Producer, I know EXACTLY the type! She'll not only have the male crew members walking (if she hires any), she'll also alienate the other female crew members. Her type is a nightmare to work with, are horrible communicators, they never take advice, and are never "wrong". They are probably already having staffing challenges. Oh, and she's already boasting her "person of color" virtue card.
The SisterhoodTM took care of my attitude in the 70's and 80's with 8 straight years of nothing but rejection...
Wanna make a man uncomfortable? Get him attracted to you and then turn him down... It doesn't get too much more uncomfortable than that.
And BTW... eat s---t and die you sadistic b---ch.
Oh, hell! I didn't even see THIS little gem! She's going to be much worse than I previously described. May God help her crew.
Many already believe the Star Wars series has gone woke...they need to go in the opposite direction. Disney doesn’t seem to understand their problem.
Anybody see the parallel here? Disney (Biden) takes a pretty well off franchise (country) and runs it into the dirt.
I’m sure you’re right and that’s what makes this so sad. Walt must be spinning!
Wokism is Marxism. The most ugly ideology under the communist umbrella.
Liberals NEVER equate their policies with their realities.
It is not possible, in their minds, to be wrong, it is someone or something else that is wrong.
They will double down, triple down, even quadruple down on their policies until they run out of other peoples’ money to show you they are right.
Then, if they have the POWER, they will force it down your throat or eliminate you as the problem...................
The only reasonable conclusion is that the people at Disney making the decisions are “shorting” the stock.
I might watch her film - if she makes me a sandwich first (hope that doesn’t make her feel uncomfortable).
I saw Star Wars I in the theater at least three times. I also saw SWII and SWIII, but neither of them came even close to being as good as SWI, which at the time, I thought was the greatest movie ever made. I also saw the '96 SW film, but it was the worst of them. I haven't seen any since.
I saw that kind of “sisterhood” in the 80’s and 90’s. I got passed over for promotions by unqualified nasty attitude women.
“I like to make men customers uncomfortable,” Obaid-Chinoy said in the interview. “I enjoy making men leave the theater and not spending money on my product. I enjoy forking over the parent company to satisfy my vengance driven mind.
Great hire there.
Bud light again.
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