Dave Filoni Explains How His STAR WARS Movie is Different From AVENGERS: ENDGAME

Star Wars fans went crazy over the news that Dave Filoni is going to be directing a Star Wars movie. That movie will “close out” the interconnected stories that are being told in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka. It’s also said to follow "the escalating war between the imperials and the fledging New Republic.”

While it seems like this is going to be equivalent to Avengers: Endgame, that’s not actually the case. When asked by CB if the movie will be his version of Avengers: Endgame, Filoni explained:

"I don't think of it that way. I mean, I think what Marvel does is astonishing. I just watched that film again the other day and it's such an accomplishment and it's built over so many years. I mean, when you work in this kind of theater of a galaxy or what Marvel does cinematically, it is astonishing and you stare and wonder what they were able to accomplish. Jon [Favreau] and I have our own little theater that we've been playing in, but Star Wars is a big galaxy. I think there's a lot of possibilities, but we do things our own way."

The filmmaker went on to talk about A New Hope as an example of the unique way that Star Wars stories are told:

"I think of, you know, A New Hope is an important moment in the timeline. The Death Star blows up. That changes everything ... A cinematic moment for this time period has to be a moment that's changing things and we understand it as the audience and then it can ripple down if we have other shows going on underneath that. So if there was a show taking place in the New Hope time period that you were watching as a kid, you would understand that things have changed in the show because the Death Star blew up. But they didn't necessarily need to be there. So there's a ton of possibilities for how to tell these stories in a unique way for Star Wars as well." 

I’m just excited to see what this epic story is that Filoni is going to tell ends up being! No rush, though, I’m enjoying what he and Favreau have been creating for us.