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This week, The Business revisits a conversation with filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who is now being tapped to direct an upcoming \\u201cStar Wars\\u201d movie, along with Damon Lindelof, who will develop and co-write it. Obaid-Chinoy will be the first woman and person of color at the helm of this movie franchise.\\xa0Recently, the two-time Academy Award winner directed two episodes of Disney\\u2019s limited series \\u201cMs. Marvel.\\u201d She shares with Kim Masters her path from making intimate documentary shorts in her home country of Pakistan, to animated features, to \\u201cMs. Marvel\\u201d \\u2013 her first live-action, narrative fiction series. \\u201cI know what \\u2018Black Panther\\u2019 did for communities across the world. And this is exactly what \\u2018Ms. Marvel\\u2019 is going to do for South Asian communities,\\u201d says Obaid-Chinoy. The mini series portrays a teenage, Pakistani-American superhero, and within its first week on Disney+, it received a 97% score \\u2013 the best reviewed Marvel series and film production on Rotten Tomatoes, a record previously held by \\u201cBlack Panther.\\u201d\\xa0The filmmaker also talks about how the real life heroes she has depicted over the years in documentary form are tied to \\u201cMs. Marvel.\\u201d \\u201cKamala Khan/Ms. Marvel is a superhero who \\u2026 is very much in line with the other characters that I had been filming throughout my career,\\u201d she explains, adding she desires to continue telling important stories in the future.\\xa0First, Masters and Matt Belloni have a fresh banter about Lucasfilm and how its leadership\\u2019s lack of creative vision is running the franchise into the ground. Plus, Peacock has growing problems.\\xa0
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