As we sit here in 2024, it’s clearer than ever that the current crop of releases from Lucasfilm reflect the very thing George Lucas spent years striving for. In StageCraft we have the ancestor of the volume he hoped to build at the Grady Ranch, while Young Jedi Adventures is the kids show he hoped to make with Squishies. The steady flow of live actions shows since the debut season of The Mandalorian in 1999 can cast its lineage back to the so-close-but-not-quite Star Wars Underworld project, so with Star Wars diversifying to keep its audience engaged and interested, these words from Dave Filoni (speaking alongside Rosario Dawson and Hayden Christensen on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast) only highlight that spread of content.
“The bottom line is: whatever we do, it has to be really well done. When you look at something that is taken as different, like Andor—it’s so well done, and Tony [Gilroy] and his team do such a phenomenal job, that I think that there’s an audience for that. I think also with that audience, I also though want to still be hitting the imagination of the kids out there so that they can grow up and appreciate those things. It’s almost like your taste for food, your taste in cinema and visuals changes as you get older.
My dad had me watch Seven Samurai when I was a kid because he knew I liked Star Wars and he knew George worked with Kurosawa. I’m not going to sit there and pretend I understood any of that when I was little… but as you get older, you’re like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s right there,’ and it’s hitting you in the face. You appreciate it in a different way … I think that [Star Wars] encompasses all types of styles, and the creative of the particular story driving it is kind of the most important thing. And they should do something that’s within their comfort zone.”
It’s worth remembering that Filoni is the Chief Creative Officer for Lucasfilm, meaning that whatever we see has passed by his desk, had his notes and been stringently crafted to fit into the broader story, a story that will take years to unfold.
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- Hardcover Book
- Revis, Beth (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 48 Pages - 12/03/2024 (Publication Date) - Random House/Star Wars (Publisher)
