Less than a day after her public exit from “The Mandalorian” at Lucasfilm and the Disney+ service, actress Gina Carano has revealed she is teaming with the conservative website The Daily Wire for a new film.
Carano will help develop, produce and star in the film which The Daily Wire says it will release exclusively to its members. Dallas Sonnier will produce.
In a statement, Carano says: “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.”
Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro says: “We could not be more excited to be working with Gina Carano, an incredible talent dumped by Disney and Lucasfilm for offending the authoritarian Hollywood Left. This is what Daily Wire exists to do: provide an alternative not just for consumers, but for creators who refuse to bow to the mob.”
Carano played bounty hunter Cara Dune on the first two seasons of “The Mandalorian,” but only appeared in a few episodes. Her most recent controversial social media postings, described by Lucasfilm as “abhorrent,” saw her exit “The Mandalorian” and dropped by her agency UTA.
However, Carano’s tweets over several months last year were already raising eyebrows with THR doing a deeper dive recently into how this dismissal was a long time coming.
The trade indicates that rumors of Carano’s character Cara Dune starring in her own “Star Wars” show were true and it was to be announced during December’s investors day presentation – plans scrubbed after erratic and contentious tweets in November about election fraud. It seems the studio had been looking for a reason to fire her for two months, and this week’s tweets were the final straw.
The nature of “The Mandalorian” makes her absence a fairly straightforward one to explain and so it’s likely the character simply won’t return as opposed to being recast. The Daily Wire meanwhile premiered its first feature, the school shooter movie “Run Hide Fight,” last year.