Why don’t women get the budgets men get? The argument tends to be a circular one familiar to many post-college job hunters: you need two years of experience to get this entry level job. No women are given big budgets because no women have made big budget movies. This becomes an excuse for keeping certain people out of the game, an excuse that - if you look quickly - makes sense. Well, why would you entrust a huge budget movie with a director who has never had a huge budget like that? It’s simply common sense!

But Bob Orci [as the director of Star Trek 3] breaks that argument.

Which means Bob Orci has just made a huge advance for women in film. By removing the ‘experience’ excuse from big budget filmmaking, Orci has opened the door to anyone to waste $150 million plus of the studio’s dollars. Literally every single woman who has ever directed anything is more qualified than Bob Orci. Which means Paramount, at least, is out of excuses as to why a woman shouldn’t be brought in to direct Transformers 5 or GI Joe 3 or any of their other tentpole pictures.

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