Dave Filoni takes cost of Star Wars as new president of Lucasfilm

There’s a brand new identify answerable for stewarding Star Wars at Lucasfilm. The studio simply introduced that Dave Filoni — best-known for his work on The Mandalorian and The Clone Wars — will probably be taking up as president. Former president Kathleen Kennedy, whose departure had been rumored for a while, will probably be stepping down and returning to producing movies full-time.

Below the brand new construction, Filoni will proceed to function chief inventive officer at Lucasfilm, alongside changing into the studio’s president. Lynwen Brennan, who has been on the studio since 1999 and most just lately served as president and GM of Lucasfilm enterprise, will probably be co-president.

“My love of storytelling was formed by the movies of Kathleen Kennedy and George Lucas,” Filoni stated in a press release. “I by no means dreamed I might be privileged to study the craft of filmmaking from each of them. From Rey to Grogu, Kathy has overseen the best enlargement in Star Wars storytelling onscreen that we’ve got ever seen.“

Filoni has been with Lucasfilm since 2005, and is at the moment hands-on with a number of in-development tasks; he’s showrunner on the second season of Ahsoka and a author and producer on the upcoming movie The Mandalorian & Grogu. He’s additionally taking up the studio at a pivotal time, as Star Wars is about to return to theatrical releases after years of false begins. Along with The Mandalorian & Grogu hitting theaters on Might twenty second, the Shawn Levy-directed Starfighter is due out in 2027.

Kennedy, in the meantime, had served as president since 2012 when Disney acquired Lucasfilm, and was handpicked by Star Wars creator George Lucas for the position. Previous to that, she had produced iconic movies like ET and Jurassic Park, and he or she’ll be a producer on each the Mandalorian movie and Starfighter.

“It has been a real privilege to spend greater than a decade working alongside the extraordinary expertise at Lucasfilm,” she stated in a press release. “Their creativity and dedication have been an inspiration, and I’m deeply happy with what we’ve completed collectively. I’m excited to proceed creating movies and tv with each longtime collaborators and recent voices who signify the way forward for storytelling.”