After the shock news late last week that The Mandalorian star Gina Carano has been let go by Lucasfilm/Disney, the star has seemingly moved forward pretty quickly and has already set a new movie deal and spoken out about it.
For quite some time a small faction of people have wanted Carano fired after a Twitter storm and, while none of us really thought it would ever come to anything, come to anything it did.
“The Daily Wire is helping make one of my dreams — to develop and produce my own film — come true. I cried out and my prayer was answered,” Carano said in a statement.
“I am sending out a direct message of hope to everyone living in fear of cancellation by the totalitarian mob. I have only just begun using my voice which is now freer than ever before, and I hope it inspires others to do the same. They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them.”
While we here at FTN would prefer not to become embroiled in the whole event, we will say that we were big fans of Carano in The Mandalorian and felt that she really embodied the strong female characters that have become a part of the Star Wars lore under George Lucas and which, for the most part, Disney had struggled to relay with the movies with the possible exception of Jyn Erso in Rogue One.
So, from that point of view, we really liked Cara Dune and would much prefer her character return and Disney make their peace with the tweets and mobs that started this all. Much the way they did with James Gunn when his horrendous tweets came to light (here).
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what happens with Carano next… and maybe, down the line, we’ll see her return to the galaxy far, far away.
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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