As we’ve long suspected. I think Filoni is the right choice for creative. What I don’t know is how he is at overseeing other creatives plans.
I think Filoni is deserving of the shot and being in this role. I want him to do well and I want to see some good Star Wars. I think realistically he might struggle and be “promoted” to a different role in a few years, but I hope I’m wrong.
Agreed. On the one hand, sometimes keeping things moving towards a cohesive vision is good, which I think Filoni has long done well with the multiple properties he’s worked on.
But sometimes, knowing when to respect someone else’s vision and give them the tools they need to realize that vision is more important. Andor remains the best thing to come out of Star Wars since the original trilogy for me, and I think it succeeds in part because of how different it dared to be. It wouldn’t have succeeded if it was forced to conform to a mold and tie in to everything else.
Hopefully Filoni can strike that balance, keeping it all together while giving other creatives a chance to do what they want.
Fucking finally. Filoni has only been proving to the world that he deserves her job for the last ten years.
Freaking finally. We had an entire trilogy with zero direction or guidelines on what they wanted to accomplish, and got three very cobbled together messes that sort of kind of might make a story if you squint long enough. Then Solo, which I think would have done well if not released right after the worst received Star Wars when everyone was tired of it. Endless TV shows that had predictable “safe” plotlines to make investors happy while driving away audiences filled with “fan moments” that made it feel empty.
Rogue One and Andor are my only things I’ve enjoyed recently, and even then from what I’ve read/seen they constantly had to fight her to make the story they wanted to make. (And turns out they were the best ones)
Rogue One and Andor are my only things I’ve enjoyed recently, and even then from what I’ve read/seen they constantly had to fight her to make the story they wanted to make. (And turns out they were the best ones)
Everything I’ve read has suggested the exact opposite, like this bit from an interview with Tony Gilroy.
“When we started challenging Kathy, Kathy just kept saying yes,” Gilroy recalled. “‘Oh, I’m going to put the first scene in a brothel.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘I’m going to have them kill two cops.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘We want the production designer from Chernobyl.‘ ‘Okay, good idea.’ She backed our play and got everything that we were doing.”
And she was the one that wanted Tony Gilroy to do it in the first place, he didn’t go to her with the show idea, she went to him.
I honestly don’t give a single fuck which white rich idiot they pick to fuck up Star Wars.
