Bounding Into Comics Reports: The cognitive dissonance at Disney continues. In an interview with CNN, upcoming Star Wars director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy sounded off on the ‘historical significance’ of her being hired to lead the untitled “Rey film”, declaring that she is “thrilled” about the project because, “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.”

Do you feel the excitement?

With media interviews like this for Star Wars directors, there’s not much for fans to be excited about. While journalists at CNN might find it cool that an award-winning documentarian and co-chair of the 2017 World Economic Forum annual meeting is doing a Star Wars movie, fans tend to be motivated by more simple things like the kind of story being told and why it fits into the galaxy far, far away created by George Lucas.

Jedi. Smugglers. The Force. Inquisitors. Bounty Hunters. Sith Acolytes. New eras on the Star Wars timeline! Does Obaid-Chinoy have anything to say about these things? Does she have some sort of misgivings about the contributions to Star Wars by women such as Marcia Lucas, who dramatically shaped A New Hope, Star Wars: Rebels co-creator Carrie Beck, or Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah Chow, or the work of Mandalorian director Bryce Dallas Howard and Ahsoka directors Jennifer Getzinger and Geeta Vasant Patel.

Unlikely. By all available metrics, Obaid-Chinoy is highly accomplished and talented as a filmmaker, but her interviews on this Star Wars opportunity only seem to point toward ego and using this intellectual property as a vehicle for scoring political points.

Obaid-Chinoy made this clear in 2015 in an interview on stage with Jon Stewart where she affirmed her enjoyment of “making men uncomfortable” after he noted that the “thread” in her films were men that are “a—holes.”