‘Ahsoka’s Dave Filoni Is Now Lucasfilm’s Chief Creative Officer

For years, author/producer/director Dave Filoni has taken an more and more central function within the creation of the Star Wars universe. And now he has a job title to match.

A brand new profile of Filoni in Vanity Fair reveals he has been promoted to the “chief creative officer of Lucasfilm.” In this place he says he’ll extra straight with firm president Kathleen Kennedy, in addition to the corporate’s head of improvement. His job: “To originate and shepherd the next generation of Star Wars shows and movies.”

“In the past,” he defined, “in a lot of projects I would be brought into it, I would see it after it had already developed a good ways … when we’re planning the future of what we’re doing now, I’m involved at the inception phase.”

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Later within the piece, Filoni in contrast his function in Star Wars to being “a part of the Jedi Council.” (“I’m not telling people what to do,” he added, “but I do feel I’m trying to help them tell the best story that they want to tell.”)

Filoni labored his method up in animation for tv, after which served because the director of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated function and was closely concerned within the spinoff Clone Wars animated collection. Later, he served as an government producer on Star Wars Rebels and created the Star Wars Resistance tv collection.

While he has continued to over see Lucasfilm’s animated collection, he has additionally begun working  in live-action since Star Wars turned a centerpiece of the Disney+ streaming service. He is a director, author, and producer on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, and he additionally created the current Star Wars: Ahsoka collection. Filoni can also be in line to direct a film that can mix the storylines from all of those TV exhibits right into a single function. According to Vanity Fair, he will even discover “a possible second season of Ahsoka.”

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