Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct upcoming Star Wars movie | CBC News

Canadian Star Wars fans, rejoice — Lucasfilm Ltd. on Friday announced three new live-action films in the franchise, including an instalment that will be directed by one of our own.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a two-time Oscar winner for her short documentaries A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness and Saving Face, will helm one of the upcoming projects after directing two episodes of the DisneyPlus series Ms. Marvel.

Obaid-Chinoy’s movie will take place after the events of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, with Daisy Ridley returning as Rey, the protagonist of the sequel trilogy that began with 2015’s The Force Awakens. The new movie will focus on Rey “as she builds a new Jedi Order,” according to Friday’s announcement.

The news was revealed at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 in London by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy as well as on the Star Wars website.

The two other directors included in Kennedy’s announcement are James Mangold, who helmed 2017’s Logan, and Dave Filoni, an executive producer at Lucasfilm who is writer-director of The Mandalorian.

Mangold’s film will mark “a return to the dawn of the Jedi,” and Filoni’s will be about the New Republic. It “will close out the interconnected stories told in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and other Disney+ series,” the announcement said.