Star Wars’ First Female Director in Talks to Direct Kill Them All

Star Wars got its first female feature director when Victoria Mahoney served as the second unit director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Now, after the film's commercial success, it seems like Paramount Pictures is tapping Mahoney for their own graphic novel adaptation.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures is looking to Mahoney to direct their own adaptation of Kill Them All, a graphic novel from Oni Press.

Written and illustrated by Eisner-nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks (Sexcastle, Rick and Morty), the book Kill Them All is a "new gonzo graphic novel love letter to 90s action movies." The comic book features a vengeful murderess and a hard-drinking ex-cop who's looking to get their job back.

The two are on a quest to take down a crime lord and because their enemy rules from the top of a 15-story high-rise in Miami, the unlikely duo has to go floor to floor killing murderers, assassins, ex-boyfriends, Luchadore gang bosses, and office workers that all get in their way.

It seems like the project is going to require quite a number of action sequences, however, Mahoney has had tons of experience, not only as the second unit director of The Rise of Skywalker but as episode director of shows like Power and American Crime.

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles producers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec are going to help produce Kill Them All with a script from James Coyne.

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