Lucasfilm Meeting With Four Female Directors and Three Female Writers For New STAR WARS Films

Lucasfilm head honcho Kathleen Kennedy recently promised that she'd hire a female director for a Star Wars movie, and now it looks like the wheels are in motion for that to actually happen.

In a report from The LA Times (via ComingSoon) about a recent summit held by Women in Film and the Sundance Institute to discuss the issue of gender inequality in Hollywood, WME partner and agent Adriana Alberghetti said that as a result of the two-day summit, she secured meetings with four female directors and three female writers for upcoming Star Wars movies. That's great news for not only the industry itself, but for the audience watching these films, too. It's important to have different perspectives out there, and it's especially important when those perspectives are involved with what's likely to become the biggest film franchise in the world.

There's no word yet on who those candidates are, but Alberghetti represents directors S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones) and Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (Aquamarine) along with writers Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island, Terminator Genisys), Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, Maleficent), Dana Stevens (For The Love of The Game), Ann Biderman (Ray Donovan, Public Enemies, Primal Fear), so they seem like good guesses.

If your first instinct is to jump in the comments and say something like, "Why can't they just hire a good director, regardless of gender?" you should read the full article because the data they've compiled should answer that question.