Elon Musk slams Disney Star Wars after new woke Pakistani director announces 'it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story'

While discussing a new Star Wars movie that had recently been announced, award-winning Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy said during a recent interview “I think it’s about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far, far away."

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk reacted to the news, saying "this is getting ridiculous" and agreeing that Disney shareholders should file a class action lawsuit for breach of its fiduciary duty.

Musk and Disney have gone head-to-head before. Musk slammed the mega-corporation for not boycotting Meta over ad placement as they did Twitter, and told CEO Bob Iger that he would not be manipulated over ads buys.



The series was imagined and created by George Lucas in the 1970s. Obaid-Chinoy appears to have forgotten actress and director Bryce Dallas Howard who directed two of the critic and fan acclaimed episodes of the Star Wars Disney+ spinoff The Mandalorian, (season one episode “Sanctuary” and the season two episode “The Heiress”) and one of the stand out episodes of the Book of Boba Fett (“Return of the Mandalorian.”)

She also seemed to have ignored that LucasFilm, the studio behind Star Wars, is helmed by CEO Kathleen Kennedy, who has been criticized by long-time fans for her stewardship of the franchise and emasculating male characters, not just in a galaxy far, far away but also in the recent Indiana Jones sequel which was a box office disappointment and alienated fans.

During the interview, CNN host Kristie Lu Stout focused on how the Pakistan-born Obaid-Chinoy was the "first woman and the first person of color to direct a Star Wars film" which is scheduled to be released in 2026 and pick up the story of Rey Skywalker, the heroine of the controversial Star Wars sequel trilogy.

Obaid-Chinoy recently posted on Instagram about the film that had been announced at the 2023 Star Wars Celebration event in London writing, "It has been quite a day in London....The news is OUT! I am so very excited to be directing the next Star Wars movie and bringing Daisy Ridley back to the galaxy," adding, "I have always been attracted to the heroes' journey and the world definitely needs more heroes!"

She continued, "The blueprints of the heroes we see on screen are rooted in reality - I’ve spent my life meeting real-life heroes, who have overcome the most oppressive empires and battled impossible odds and that to me is the heart of Star Wars...which is why I was attracted to the promise of a new Jedi Order …And why I'm particularly excited about being immersed inside a Jedi Academy with a powerful Jedi Master... #starwars."

Stout asked Obaid-Chinoy about her real life, to which the filmmaker gave the example of a female teacher in Pakistan and credited her husband for supporting her noting, "It’s so important to have male champions in your life who sort of help you when there are difficult times."

Obaid-Chinoy added that she wants to help the "…next generation of female filmmakers in my own home country of Pakistan. If I can lead the network of the next generation of filmmakers in Pakistan, that is the kind of legacy that I want to lead.”

Disney, the parent company of Lucasfilm, has been slammed by parents and conservatives recently for being too "woke" and focused on identity politics.

Box office results of films touting the ideology have been disappointing causing the Mouse House to lose over $900 million on its past 8 films.

After the star of the studio’s upcoming live-action remake of "Snow White," Rachel Zegler​​​​ slammed the original animated classic as a "weird" love story with a "guy who literally stalks her," the resulting blowback caused Disney to postpone the release of the movie by a year and the star to walk back the comments.