J.J. Abrams Wants Ava DuVernay to Direct a Star Wars Movie, but She Probably Doesn't Want To

No woman has ever directed a Star Wars film (only a handful have even spoken in them!), but that doesn’t mean the men in charge of the series don’t think a woman could. In a recent interview with Nerdist, J.J. Abrams, the man who recently referred to Star Wars as a “boys’ thing,” knew exactly who’d be great at the job (if, of course, it’s ever actually offered to her): Ava DuVernay.

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