For the first time, a woman will direct a film from the galactic franchise, the Canadian of Pakistani origin Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The actress daisy ripleywho played the Jedi Master Rey in the latest installments of ‘Star Wars’, will lead the return of the saga to the big screen, with a trilogy directed by three different directors, one of whom will be, for the first time, a woman, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
The announcement was made in London by the president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, within the annual convention ‘Star Wars Celebration’which is being held in Europe again for the first time since 2016.
Ridley herself appeared by surprise to the delight of fans at the event in which the Disney franchise unveiled its great news, starting with the trilogy that will be directed by Dave Filoni and James Mangold, in addition to the aforementioned Obaid-Chinoand.
The film by the Canadian director of Pakistani origin will take place after the end of the previous trilogy and episode IX of the saga, ‘The Rise of Skywalker’, and will narrate how Rey creates a new order Jedi after the supposed defeat of the dark forces.
Meanwhile, the film directed by Mangold, who also made the next installment of Indiana Jones, ‘Indiana Jones and the Day of Destiny’, will focus on the birth of the jedYo. For his part, Filoni will film the development of the New Republiccreated after the destruction of the Empire, and which is also the plot axis of most of the series of the ‘Star wars’ universe for Disney+, such as ‘The mandalorian’ or ‘The book of Boba Fett’.
Kathleen Kennedy welcomes at the #StarWarsCelebration James Mangold, Dave Filoni and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy as future directors of the next three Star Wars films. pic.twitter.com/MfcQzBkxhD
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Precisely, one of those series, ‘Ahsoka’, which is presented as one of the most desired by fans, revealed a trailer on the first day of the convention that shows its protagonist, Rosario Dawsonn, on the paper that gives the product its name. “Something is coming, something dark, I can feel it,” says the jedi Ahsoka in the trailer, a character made popular by her appearance in the series ‘The Mandalorian’. In ‘Ahsoka’, which will arrive on Disney+ in August of this year, Hayden Christensen is also expected to appear as Anakin Skywalker.
warrior. Exiled. Rebel. Jedi.#ahsoka will be available in August 2023 at @disneypluses. #StarWarsCelebration pic.twitter.com/ZOuTyLtLzl
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Those present also had the opportunity to see exclusively the first trailer of another new series ‘Skeleton crew’, with Jude Law in the title role, who will be surrounded by a cast full of children to recreate adventures that have been compared to those of the legendary eighties film ‘The Goonies’. Some of the directors who will make the episodes of “Skeleton Crew” are Jon Watts, David Lowery, The Daniels, Jake Schreier, Bryce Dallas Howard, or Lee Isaac Chung.