{"id":52003,"date":"2023-11-21T20:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=52003"},"modified":"2023-11-21T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:26:53","slug":"dave-filoni-lucasfilm-chief-creative-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/21\/dave-filoni-lucasfilm-chief-creative-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Filoni Named Lucasfilm Chief Creative Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52004\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Star-Wars-Dave-Filoni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Star-Wars-Dave-Filoni.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars Dave Filoni\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Star-Wars-Dave-Filoni.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Star-Wars-Dave-Filoni-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image collage via FilmBuffOnline,Lucasfilm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dave Filoni has been named Chief Creative Officer at Lucasfilm.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2023\/11\/star-wars-ahsoka-dave-filoni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanity Fair<\/a>, who broke the news, Filoni will be involved in the early development of future <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> film and television projects, working alongside Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and head of development Carrie Beck.<\/p>\n<p>While Filoni has been a major creative force in the Star Wars universe for the last two decades, the new position will see him offering input on future projects as they enter the development process. &#8220;In the past, in a lot of projects I would be brought into it, I would see it after it had already developed a good ways,&#8221; he explained to Vanity Fair. &#8220;In this new role, it\u2019s opened up to basically everything that\u2019s going on. When we\u2019re planning the future of what we\u2019re doing now, I\u2019m involved at the inception phase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Filoni first came to Lucasfilm to help develop and direct the animated <em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em> series which debuted in 2008. He additionally oversaw the Clone Wars follow ups <em>Rebels<\/em> and <em>Resistance<\/em> before moving onto live action with the Disney+ series <em>The Mandalorian<\/em>, <em>The Book Of Boba Fett<\/em> and most recently <em>Ahsoka<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In his early days at Lucasfilm on <em>The Clone Wars<\/em>, Filoni often worked in tandem with <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> creator George Lucas developing much of the lore and backstory featured in the series. As such, Filoni is thought by many fans to have the second best understanding of the franchise right after Lucas himself.<\/p>\n<p>While Lucasfilm has been having success in rolling out their various Disney+ series, they have stumbled in getting a new feature film out to theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The creator of many of the Disney+ STAR WARS series assumes a position at Lucasfilm to help creatively steer the franchise going forward.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/21\/dave-filoni-lucasfilm-chief-creative-officer\/\" title=\"Dave Filoni Named Lucasfilm Chief Creative Officer\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[11722,1552,260],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dave-feloni","9":"tag-lucasfilm","10":"tag-star-wars"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52003"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=52003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}