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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What’s ACTUALLY killing Disney? Film producer weighs in



For many, many years, Disney was America’s favorite family entertainment conglomerate. But the tides seem to be turning. More and more people across the country are abandoning Disney, leaving the company in a massive revenue deficit.

What exactly is causing Disney to decline? Is it progressive films (aka box office flops), the threat of AI, or a combination of the two?

American actor and film producer Matthew Marsden joins James Poulos on "Zero Hour" to discuss what’s going on.

Disney has “absolutely destroyed what made that brand brilliant,” says Marsden. “You’re seeing it now with the woke ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”’

For those who don’t know, this progressive "Snow White" remake will feature no prince and no dwarves because apparently those two things are offensive, and a Latina actress will star in the role of Snow White because whiteness, as we’ve been told, needs to be done away with.

“If you have an established IP … even though it's made millions of dollars [and] it's been hugely successful, some screenwriter comes along and he goes, ‘Do you know what, I can improve that,’ and they change it,” says Marsden.

Which is exactly what they’re doing with "Snow White." Despite the fact that the original is a beloved classic, the screenwriters and producers are turning the script upside down to create what will inevitably become yet another woke disaster.

“Just make the movie of the book,” pleads Marsden. “It's sold X amount of a million copies; people want to see it up on screen … it's really simple.”

“When you see that happen, they're always successful for the most part,” he continues.

“Tech is part of the problem here too,” adds James, because many screenwriters wrongly assume that putting “CGI in every scene” means “people will get it and they'll watch it because it's got technology in it … and that doesn’t work.”

“So if that doesn’t work, and woke-ifying things doesn’t work, then you’ve got stagnation,” he continues.

Based on Disney’s profit margins, it certainly seems like the company is in a state of stagnation.

To hear the full conversation, watch the video below.


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