Holy Filoni! Dave Filoni Promoted Again to Chief Creative Officer of LFL

Link to article: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/11/star-wars-ahsoka-dave-filoni

Well deserved! This man is a legend. This promotion will make him the #2 person in all of LucasFilm. The article says Kennedy will be primarily in charge of the business side, Carrie Beck will be the one recruiting the talent/project leads, and Filoni will be in charge of the story side.

He is the closest we will get to George, so pretty much a perfect fit for all parties involved (including the fans!).

 

Some of the decisions made in Ahsoka and Mando and Book of boba Fett make me question him sometimes. Although specifically Mando in that regards.

In before people still blame KK for things they don’t like despite her not being involved in the creative side of Lucasfilm.

 

Which decisions?

 

My problem with BOBF is that Mando takes away whole episodes. Just a horrible decision for the flow of the show IMO. That might not have been Dave but he gets part of the blame regardless as he was heavily involved in the show

Mando season 3 was a mess. It’s a mess I love but still a mess.

Ahsoka has some really good moments, but the final had some big problems for me. And the first 2 episodes also slightly bored me.

there was some payoff I was really expecting that didn’t happen.

this is all opinionated. So it’s not like it matters beyond what I think.

my real point is I don’t think Dave will be some magic bullet. Especially not within the next 5 years.

Acolyte and Andor don’t seem to have much involvement from him. And I think that will continue to be the case. So I don’t think this will change much especially with Lucasfilm probably cutting back on how many shows they are doing. Hell we still don’t know if TBB will be the last PG animated show or not.

I don’t expect Dave to have much direct influence beyond the Mando shows for some time to come. Which IMO is a good thing. I would rather there be completely seperate projects like Andor and the Acolyte so that way you get different flavors. We’ll have to see how it all shacks out

edit: to surmise I don’t think this will be the change that some Star Wars fans think it will be. Because I don’t think it will be a change.

 

does this mean we will get an OT reboot with Ahsoka in Luke's rule

and Luke and Leia being reduced to cameos?

plot: can former apprentice Ahsoka Tano save her former master from the dark-side?

 

That is my other worry. You all know I am not a big fan of Ahsoka. I am a fan of her just not the biggest. My real problem is she survived rebels.

If I had to choose between her dying in twilight of the apprentice or getting the Ahsoka show ai would choose apprentice.

I would love to see Dave make a show that he’s heavily involved in that doesn’t involve Ahsoka. I want to see him stretch his creative wings beyond his comfort character.

Ahsoka has appeared enough

 

Hey, Lucasfilm finally listened to me! Flashback to almost 2 years ago...
https://boards.theforce.net/threads/children-of-blood-and-bone.50055225/#post-57800089

Filoni as a solo writer/showrunner was a big mistake on Ahsoka. That said, he does seem to get what Star Wars should be on a macro-level. I like him overseeing the future of Star Wars storytelling with A+ level writers like Tony Gilroy and Beau Willimon doing the actual writing.

 

Well that is amazing news. I have 100% trust in him. I love ALL the content he has made and supervised.

It's also great that @2Cleva was once again right. Everything will officially have to go through Filoni now, not that it didn't before.

I hope that means he can still write and direct entire seasons of SW shows, if that means we get gems like Ahsoka again in the future.


Now the only thing that remains is for KK to finally retire at some point, so that Dave can become president of Lucasfilms. And then.... we shall finally.... have peace.

 

I highly doubt Dave ever becomes the president of Lucasfilm. This position will make it harder for him to be extensively involved in any single project. Being the president would make it impossible. He would be in charge of the financial and creative side. What exactly would be the point? No him being the president of Lucasfilm is a waste of his skills it was a waste of George’s which is why he wasn’t the president after 2002. Ya that’s right

George wasn’t the president of his own company.

Dave being president makes no logical sense especially for people who want him to continue to create.

Maybe I am cynical but I have a feeling his promotion was more just a pay raise than anything else. He was probably already doing everything he was doing regardless. That’s what happened last time he was promoted. KK literally said he was just given a job for what he had been doing for years.

 

There was a reason the original Fett movie/show got scrapped.

My guess is Disney saw the success Mando got and how well received the Fett cameos were and forced the project that was already DOA.

 

This should have happened a decade ago.

 

I really don’t think all that much would have changed except Ahsoka would have been on the sequels for some reason

 

This is a huge change, now we get more planned projects and less contradictions if any. He will have input on everything going forward and guide creatives to make Star Wars like GL would. And he be the guy to tell thats not how the force works and thats not how Jedi opperate.

 

This is good news! No one outside of George Lucas understands Star Wars like Dave Filoni imo, and I've long thought he should basically take on his old role going forward. I'm excited to see what he has planned for the future!

 

I remember calling for this as soon as Lucas stepped down.

Instead we got JJ

 

He wasent ready yet and he knows it.

 

That may be true to a certain degree, but he was still a better option than anyone else.
Noone would have been ready to follow in GL's footsteps in 2013.

With Filoni as the creative chief officer, the sequels would have been drastically different.
In fact, they would have certainly been completely different movies, and also respectful to the story GL had given us.
And Ahsoka being in the sequels, might actually have been a good thing.

 

I agreed there.

 

I think you guys are overestimating how much Filoni will be involved in any one given project. I would even go as far as to say in 7 years the Star Wars fandom will either be just as divided as it currently is if not more. And those of you who haven’t liked the direction Star Wars has been heading will continue to not like it. His previous role was as creative director of Lucasfilm. I really truly think him being the cco will literally change nothing except give him a pay raise.

at the very least expect Star Wars to continue as it has for the next 2-3 years. Because any projects with him as CCO won’t come out until then.

 

I also think you are underestimate him and his new position. Dave Filoni and Cary Beck will be second to Kathleen Kennedy.. He probably has same power as James Gunn in DC and Kevin Feige in MCU.

 

Maybe so. All I am saying is I think people are underestimating how much he has already been involved in his current role.

 

Oh no doubt he but like he said late or in middle the Project production. Now he will be there in beginning

 

I think you might be remembering things wrong. Cleva as always isn't right about much of anything. He said Filoni would replace Kathleen Kennedy. The role Filoni got is something lots of people have said he would be a good fit for. Infact I thought it was a role he already had. Perhaps he did but it just wasn't official.

 

Welp that's really bad news personally I have not been a fan of his recent shows with the exception of TOTJ, he's very strong when it comes to animation but severly lacking in the live action medium.

 

His writing is severely lacking and his directing is just mediocre at this point. But he is a great lore person which is something he will be able to focus on in this position. Basically all they are really doing is making the story group even more important than it was before.