Dave Filoni Says His STAR WARS Movie Will Draw Inspiration From REVENGE OF THE SITH
There’s still so much we don’t know about Dave Filoni’s upcoming Star Wars film, but we do know that it 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.”
Filoni continues to talk about his big and exciting Star Wars project, and this time he talks about the inspiration behind the film, and specifically mentions George Lucas’ Revenge of the Sith. He told Rotten Tomatoes:
“There’s a treasure of things to draw from, not just within our own series, but in the bigger galaxy. I definitely think a large-scale battle that would be very hard to do in our time, that we’re doing right now … when I saw the opening of Revenge of the Sith, and the starfighters came over the bow of the ship and revealed this massive battle, I’m like, ‘This is it. This is the movie that I want to see, right here.'”
So, that's exciting! I guess one thing we can expect and look forward to seeing is an epic space battle! I can’t wait to see what Filoni has imagined come to life! During a previous interview with Filoni, he was asked about his movie and what the singular thread weaving the varied stories together was. He said:
“On a base level, I would just say the coming conflict, the growing idea that the empire wasn’t as defeated as a lot of people want to believe and that the remnant is out there. We saw that from the very beginning with The Mandalorian and how Giancarlo’s [Esposito] character Gideon was plotting. There are always people that are willing to undermine something that the Republic is trying to build and put back on its feet.
“I grew up with a lot of stories in the expanding universe that were exploring what happened after Return of the Jedi. There has been this, for fans, idea that there was a new Republic and a remnant Empire and the conflict persisted after Return of the Jedi, even though the heroes won and were more in control. What did that control look like? And since Force Awakens is 30 years on out from Return of the Jedi, we have room then to tell another story. That’s what I’m coalescing into this time period.”
The story, which he started telling years ago, has been quite an epic journey and it’s exciting to know that it’s going to lead to a huge-scale conflict. Filoni previously teased that a “big event” was coming, and obviously, this movie is what the whole thing is leading to. He said:
"Well, from a certain point of view, it could. It could build to a climactic thing and The Mandalorian could still go on. It's not necessarily an either/or, is it? It's an interesting way to think about it. I tend to think, as we've been working on the The Mandalorian and then writing Ahsoka, and then Jon Watts came in with Skeleton Crew, there is an entire time period that is post-Return of the Jedi. And I look at that time period, which before The Force Awakens, is around 30 years of time. When you look at the original trilogy, it's a much less significant amount of time that those three movies take place in. And so, what I like is that we're really building very slowly an ecosystem of characters and politics and events in the post-Return of the Jedi time period. And that may or may not expand in a bigger way as we add more shows to it and add more characters to it.
“I think that the reality of there being a big event in this time period is very real, is all I would say to that. But yes, if Jon wanted to keep making Mandalorian stories, as long as he does not get bumped off in said titanic event, then they, I suppose, could continue. There doesn't seem to be any lack of interest in Grogu and Mando, that's for sure."
It’s probably going to be awhile before we see this movie get made, but I hope that it’s not the last of what we see from these characters. I hope it’s the end of one story, but the beginning of something new. It’s pretty awesome, though, that the animated series that Filoni started a long time ago has evolved into what’s coming!