Check out what the man-hating director of new 'Star Wars' film said 8 years ago



"Star Wars" used to be about epic space battles, galactic creatures, fearless jedi warriors, and good conquering evil, but like many Disney franchises, "Star Wars" is now heading down the path of wokeness.

Pakistani activist and director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who the liberal-run media is celebrating as the first woman and person of color to direct a "Star Wars" film, has made it crystal clear that she intends to make the next film radically feminist and anti-male.

The backlash from critics and fans has been anything but subtle.

However, Obaid-Chinoy’s intentions shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering Disney’s insistence on shoving a progressive agenda down our throats and the fact that Obaid-Chinoy has long had a radical feminist agenda.

Dave Rubin plays a clip of her at the Women in the World conference eight years ago telling Jon Stewart how she directs her films.

“I enjoy making men uncomfortable,” she said. “I am working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable, and it should make you uncomfortable because you need to change your attitude, and it's only when you're uncomfortable, when you're shifty, when you have to have difficult conversations that you will perhaps look at yourself in the mirror and not like the reflection.”

“I remember when I was 5 years old, the first time I saw ‘Star Wars,’ and I went into the bathroom after, and I stared in the mirror for like an hour, and I said, ‘you're a horrible person, Dave,”’ mocks Dave.

“She's been handed this legacy of this film franchise that has taken decades and decades to build [and] has millions of fans around the world,” adds Andy Ngo. “People should be concerned that somebody who has this history of saying these things — of having a political [and] philosophical agenda in her work — has now been handed this huge franchise ... it's really hugely disrespectful to the fans.”

Dave agrees, adding that alienating its original fans has really been Disney’s aim all along.

“Disney announced a few years ago when they got both ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Marvel’ that they were going to push ‘Star Wars’ to be more for young girls and the Marvel Universe to be more for young boys, so this is a type of social engineering, isn't it?” he asks.

“Absolutely,” says Colin Wright. “This is all part of a bigger pattern that you see happening in so many different institutions where they take an institution that has this legacy, this history, this earned prestige, and then the activists just at the eleventh hour hop in the driver's seat [and] commandeer the whole thing just to use as a megaphone to spout their own ideologies and ... undermine the entire legacy.”


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New woke ‘Star Wars’ movie announcement is the final nail in the coffin for fans



Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy may have just made a fatal error.

Kennedy is doubling down on making "Star Wars" more woke by hiring Pakistani activist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct the new Rey movie, starring Daisy Ridley.

The liberal-run media is ecstatic to announce that Obaid-Chinoy is the first woman and the first person of color to direct a “Star Wars” film.

Obaid-Chinoy is as well, telling CNN that because “we’re in 2024 now,” she thinks “it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far, far away.”

Others are not so excited.

“‘Star Wars’ has handed its $67 billion empire, whatever is left of its empire, to a feminist,” Dave Rubin laughs, noting that Kathleen Kennedy herself, who has been running “Star Wars” for the past 10 years, “has basically completely destroyed it.”

Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright is in total agreement.

“They’re just injecting the activism directly into the films,” he tells Rubin, adding that the problem with “woke ideologues” is that “they can’t just make movies that embody their vision. They have to make the movie overtly about the activism itself.”

“If you want to challenge norms, just write your strong female characters. This has been done in ways that doesn’t center activism,” Wright continues, citing Jennifer Lawrence in “The Hunger Games” as an example.

“The last thing that 'Star Wars' needs is to continue down this activist path. Just write the good characters and the good stories,” he adds.


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Rey returns as Star Wars franchise expands its empire: new movies, television series on the horizon

Rey returns as Star Wars franchise expands its empire: new movies, television series on the horizon



The Star Wars Celebration fan convention in London this week brought several announcements from franchise leadership, including three new feature films, four upcoming television series, and more, Variety reported.

"She was out of her mind excited," Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told the outlet about actor Daisy Ridley's response to returning as character Rey for a new film.

"It’s just exciting," "The Mandalorian" creator Jon Favreau told the outlet of Ridley's return.

"I always find it really satisfying, encouraging when you have people who come through Star Wars, come back to Star Wars. It shows you how strong that community is and how big of a bond you develop. For Daisy to come back and be part of where this is going, I’m excited to see where all at what happens there."

Though fans will get to see Rey again, a second season of "Obi-Wan Kenobi" is "not in active development," Kennedy revealed.

"But I never say never, because there’s always the possibility. That show was so well-received and [director] Deborah Chow did such a spectacular job. Ewan McGregor really wants to do another. Everybody’s all hands on deck with what we’re doing right now, as you can see by what we showed everybody [at the Celebration]. We’ll turn our attention to that again maybe down the road."

Fans of "Obi-Wan Kenobi" can drown their sorrows by immersing themselves in a new Disney+ spin-off of the hit series "The Mandalorian" called "Ahsoka." The first trailer was revealed at the convention Friday, Deadline reported. It will be released in August.

Rosario Dawson will star in the namesake role as Ahsoka Tano, a character from the alien species Togruta co-created by George Lucas and Dave Filoni.

Though plot details are scarce, some cast information is already available. As revealed on stage at the Celebration, cast members will include Ray Stevenson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera. David Tennant will play a droid character called Huyang.

“You have to have him. He makes it work,” Lucasfilm executive director Dave Filoni reportedly said of Tennant.

The Star Wars Celebration fan convention began April 7. It is slated to conclude Monday.

The "Ahsoka" teaser trailer from Disney+ garnered 7.9 million views as of Saturday evening since it appeared on YouTube Friday. Watch the trailer for the highly-anticipated "The Mandalorian" spin-off below.



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