Is It Rian Johnson?
Hell, no! He’s left Star Wars behind and is exploring the lucrative Knives Out shared cinematic universe.
Is Jar Jar Abraham?
Uh, uh. He’s going to ruin Superman and other DC properties over at Warner Bros once he and his people completely destroy Star Trek for Paramount.
So who then? Opie? Gareth? George?!?
Who?
It’s Victoria Mahoney, the second-unit director on The Rise Of Skywalker.
That’s right, the entertainment media is claiming that second-units are directors now:
And not only directors, which I guess is technically true, but filmmakers:
Why would they do this? Why would they give a second-unit director the title of Star Wars director or Star Wars filmmaker when that title has always meant only one thing?
I’m vexed. Terribly vexed. Who is this Victoria Mahoney anyway? Let’s check out…
Oh my god!
What About This Sci-Fi Thing?
The series is based on a trilogy written by Octavia E. Butler in the ’80s about — and this is very important because it’s been specifically mentioned in every article — an African-American woman who works with aliens to resurrect the human race after we wiped ourselves out in a nuclear war.
That’s an interesting concept. Here is the full summary:
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali — who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction.
They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.
The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.
I don’t know. It could be good if anyone other than Ava Duverney was involved.
Then again, Variety says that the trilogy gets into “themes of sexuality, gender, and race” and we know how well Ms. Duverney handles those.
This woman is just a complete joke as a member of society and, after her disastrous attempt to race-swap and justicize A Wrinkle In Time, as a filmmaker:
Dawn might show up sometime on Amazon, but I doubt it.
