After making history in a galaxy far, far away, Victoria Mahoney is eyeing her big studio directorial debut. Mahoney served as second unit director on 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” making her the first woman and person of color to direct in the course of the franchise’s 40-plus year history. Now she’s in talks to direct Paramount’s “Kill Them All,” an adaptation of Kyle Starks’ graphic novel. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.

“Kill Them All” is “described as a love letter to 1990s action movies,” and “tells of a betrayed murderess on a revenge campaign and a hard-drinking former cop who team up to take down a crime lord,” the source details. “Their nemesis rules from atop a 15-story Miami high-rise, so the duo must go floor by floor cutting through assassins, murderers, Luchadore gang bosses, ex-boyfriends, and office workers.”

Mahoney made her feature directorial debut with 2012 Zoë Kravitz-starrer “Yelling at the Sky,” a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a 17-year-old girl.

“The freakiest thing about indie filmmakers is that we are bred and conditioned for harsh news. We wake up to 32,000 ‘nos’ a day, and self-preservation protects us from the ambush of let down. We have made an intrinsic peace with the fight required to shape shift those 32,000 ‘nos’ into a version of ‘yes.’ That’s how we live. With hand crafted versions of yes,'” Mahoney wrote in a 2011 guest post for Women and Hollywood. Check out her account of screening “Yelling at the Sky” at the Berlinale.

Mahoney’s small screen directing credits include “You,” “Seven Seconds,” “Power,” “Claws,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” and “Queen Sugar.” She’s re-teaming with the creator of the latter, Ava DuVernay, for a TV adaptation of Octavia Butler’s “Dawn,” the story of a Black woman who is one of the few survivors of a nuclear war. The series is in development at Amazon.