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Disney Casts Priyanka Chopra-Jonas As Jar Jar Binks In Star Wars TV Series

She was born for this role!

Ellie Salvaje
The Haven
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6 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Picture of Priyanka Chopra-Jonas (left) from GulfNews. Picture of Jar Jar Binks (right) from IndieWire.

Hollywood writers usually drop a character when it’s reviled by the audience. Disney took the road less traveled by and gave it an extreme makeover.

A bird told us that Disney was thinking of bringing back one of their characters in a flashback episode of television series The Book Of Boba Fett. Disney CEO Robert Chapek jumped on Zoom to confirm the rumors.

“We bought George Lucas’s vision to build upon his science fiction universe. Star Wars is an integral part of the Disney brand for two main reasons: it provides the typical hero story that kids adore and it increases our profit through merchandise sales. Bringing back Boba Fett to television gave us a formula to increase our profits through writing stories for our side characters.”

Chapek continued.

“We thought of doing a spin off show about Jabba the Hutt, but no one wants to watch a fat ass lead an army of thugs through temper tantrums. It hits too close to American politics. We decided to play it safe by bringing back polarizing character Jar Jar Binks. But there’s a twist. To avoid racist Jamacian stereotypes and rastafarian undertones, we have decided to make Jar Jar

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Ellie Salvaje
The Haven

Pushing the boundaries of dark humor and satire a bit further than before.