Ms Marvel director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has been tapped to helm a new Star Wars film, with Damon Lindelof attached as co-writer.
According to the entertainment website Deadline, the Lucasfilm project is currently under the scripting stage.
The movie is being touted as the first major big screen release for Lucasfilm after 2019's Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. The studio has been focusing on its TV projects — The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor — since then.
Obaid-Chinoy, best known for her Oscar-winning documentary shorts Saving Face, A Girl in the River and The Price of Forgiveness recently directed several episodes of Disney's hit series Ms Marvel.
The Star Wars franchise was created by George Lucas with his 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The original trilogy had two more films - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983). In 2012, Lucas sold his production company to Disney, relinquishing his ownership of the franchise. This led to a sequel of the original trilogy — Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017), and Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Two more standalone live-action feature films were also released by the franchise - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Solo (2018).
