The Drive is with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: the “Ms. Marvel” director has been tapped to helm a “Star Wars” movie. Deadline stories that the script remains to be being written, and plot particulars stay below wraps.

Obaid-Chinoy is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who is ready to make her narrative function directorial debut with “Brilliance,” a futuristic story a couple of world the place non-neurotypical folks — and their presents, which embrace studying folks’s secrets and techniques by how they fold their arms — are demonized by society.

Two of Obaid-Chinoy’s shorts, “Saving Face” and “A Woman within the River: The Worth of Forgiveness,” gained Oscars and Emmys. Her function docs embrace “Tune of Lahore” and “A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers.” Most lately, she directed two episodes of Iman Vellani-starrer “Ms. Marvel.”

“My recommendation to different feminine administrators can be to pay no heed to naysayers,” Obaid-Chinoy informed us. “Girls might be united in the truth that there has at all times been somebody in our lives who has informed us, ‘It may possibly’t be performed’ or ‘There may be solely a lot you are able to do.’ We’re consistently inspired to suppose that being born a lady means we had been born with restricted decisions and compromised goals.”

“Surprise Girl” helmer Patty Jenkins signed on to direct a “Star Wars” pic again in 2020. Initially slated for a 2023 launch, the movie, titled “Rogue Squadron,” was pulled from Disney’s schedule this September. It’s unclear whether or not the undertaking remains to be occurring or when to count on it.