Kathleen Kennedy Doesn’t Think There’s a Woman Director Ready for “Star Wars”
*Scream of frustration*
— Melissa Silverstein (@melsil) November 26, 2016
Kathleen Kennedy Doesn’t Think There’s a Woman Director Ready for “Star Wars” https://t.co/MLIwsGL2N0 pic.twitter.com/YQWxxBGIet
"We want to make sure that when we bring a female director in to do “Star Wars,” they’re set up for success. They’re gigantic films, and you can’t come into them with essentially no experience."
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Ugh. That sounds well and good until you remember that plenty of guys with minimal experience get handed franchise films all the time. Also if someone mentions Bigelow - so help me God. There are other women directors out there.
(actually I do think Bigelow is a more visionary director that Lexi but I hate when people bring her up for franchises because she so obviously has zero interest in doing that. If they want someone visionary there are soooo many other talented women I can think of with a decent amount of experience: Julie Taymor, Michelle MacLaren, Rachel Talalay, Jennifer Phang, Karyn Kusama etc etc.)
I would honestly die to see her direct a superhero movie, I can't even begin to imagine how beautiful it would be. Someone really needs to throw $100 mil at her and watch her play.