Dave Filoni promoted to creative head of LucasFilm: Ahsoka creator to oversee Star Wars

“Literally, hours of Star Wars stories I’ve come up with. See? I’m even starting to talk like Yoda!”

Kathleen Kennedy has finally found her Kevin Feige! Like the creative brain of the MCU, the franchise Star Wars will now be headed by one and the same person: Dave Filoni. The showrunner ofAhsoka immediately reacted to the announcement of his promotion as “chief creative officer” of Lucasfilm, for which he will work closely with the producer at the head of the studio, as well as development manager Carrie Beck, whose task will be to find other screenwriters to imagine the future of the saga, both in cinema and ‘on the television.

Hired in 2008, when Lucasfilm was still led by George Lucas, on Clone WarsDave Filoni has since overseen the studio’s flagship series such as The Mandalorian and the one dedicated to the heroine played by Rosario Dawson, therefore.

“So now I’m what we call the creative head of Lucasfilm, comments the person concerned. In the past, I have been hired for several projects, but only once they were well underway. Thanks to this new role, I will supervise all stages. When we imagine the future of Star Wars, I will be involved from the inception phase, from the initial design. Literally, hours of stories Star Wars I imagined. You see ? I even start talking like Yoda! In any case, I won’t tell people what to do. I will be there to try to help them tell the best stories possible. I will be a support in the galaxy, a bit like a member of the Jedi Council.”

Among Dave Filoni’s first tasks in this position, there will of course be the creation of the second season ofAhsokabut also the establishment of new films, Lucasfilm having decided to take a break after the mixed reception of the end of the Skywalker saga to rethink the future of Star Wars At the movie theater. Several projects have fallen through, such as those of Patty Jenkins or Kevin Feige, while new blockbusters are being produced: one doing return Daisy Ridley as Rey and another concocted by James Mangold (Logan, Indiana Jones 5…). Without forgetting Filoni’s own filmof course, which is one of the studio’s priorities.

“To truly help filmmakers, it was important for me to have been in this place, he finally clarifies. I believe I can offer perspective on the challenges of wanting to tell a story in this universe. I feel capable of helping on this point, well beyond comments like: ‘Jedi are like this, Sith are like that…’“

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