Disney has clamped down on Pakistani documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy—slated to direct the first installment of a new Star Wars trilogy—banning her from being involved in any other Star Wars projects. The move comes after a money dispute between Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the Disney company, and actress Daisy Ridley (the star of the new trilogy).
Another factor believed to be involved with the director’s semi-detachment from the franchise is a series of old interviews that have recently gone viral, in which she reveals several distasteful things about herself, such as “I like to make men uncomfortable.” The director has also revealed that she views her Star Wars project as a vehicle for her activist agenda, which involves female empowerment.
In late 2022, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy invited Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to play a pivotal role in the Star Wars franchise as both a writer and frequent director. After Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy began demanding more money, however, Disney CEO Bob Iger pulled the plug, decreasing her pay and limiting her involvement to just one film. Around the same time, Daisy Ridley’s pay was increased.
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Part of the role of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in the Star Wars franchise would have been to ensure that the subversive DEI agenda of Disney was implemented across various projects. The Pakistani director’s removal does NOT indicate a reversal of Disney’s commitment to woke ideology, however. It is more likely the Disney company was unwilling to expend the effort to spin her toxicity into a positive feature.
The Star Wars film will be the first attempt for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy at directing a feature-length non-documentary film. The fact that Disney gave her the job in the first place, and then refrained from firing her outright, reveals that the only thing the company cares about is its subversive agenda. Quality storytelling is the least of the concerns at Disney.
In one of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s viral interviews, the director gleefully—and completely unwittingly—says several things about herself that conform to the very worst female stereotypes, revealing sociopathic, dishonest, and manipulative patterns of behavior. She says, “My greatest asset is I’m a woman. I really can get away with a lot of things. When you can play the woman card, you play the woman card… the damsel in distress. You’ve got to play all sides. If I need to scare [a man] off a bit, I do. I enjoy that power. You can do both, and I like that.”
Pop culture commentators have been making hay of these and other comments from the director, some of which date back nearly a decade.
Dating back to 2002, the work of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy mostly consists of documentaries, but she has more recently branched out and created several inspirational cartoons for Pakistani children. Her early documentary work focused mostly on the abuse of women and children in the Muslim world, but her more recent offerings have a more Westernized “woke” quality with topics such as “climate change” and “gender”. She directed one episode of Disney’s Ms. Marvel series, which featured a Muslim protagonist.
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