Acclaimed Star Wars creative Dave Filoni opens up about why he feels canon isn't all that important.

Speaking to ScreenRant, Filoni explained, "People get into all these debates of what's canon and what's not, and sometimes forget the special nature of telling a good story and creating great characters. Part of the fan debate in the past always used to be, 'What's canon? What's not?' because there was George, and we always knew George was the canon." Filoni continued, "I look at it very broadly, and I just say there's a love of Star Wars. Because I knew George, I worked with him, and none of us are going to be him. But we love the Galaxy he created, and we're very much a product of it; growing up with it."

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Dave Filoni's Star Wars Journey

Filoni began his career in Star Wars following his work on shows such as King of the Hill and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Most associated with the development of Ahsoka Tano alongside franchise creator George Lucas, Filoni has most recently served as part of the production, direction and consulting crew for The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, as well as the upcoming Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew series.

During Star Wars Celebration 2023, it was announced that Filoni would be helming a new Star Wars feature film that will act as a "culmination" of the narrative events that have intertwined The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka on the silver screen. Neither Filoni nor Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy offered any indication of when this film would be hitting theaters, though it was noted that it would be one of three new features from James Mangold, Filoni and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

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Mangold's project in the trio, Dawn of the Jedi, is set to take place in the "deep past" and act as an exploration of the origins of the Force as a religious symbol in the Galaxy Far, Far Away. "It's a chance to tell the entire story of its own, the birth of the Force," Mangold said of the project. "When I first talked to Kathy Kennedy about it, I just said, 'I just see this opening to make kind of a Ben-Hur or The 10 Commandments about the birth of the Force.' The Force has become a kind of religious legend that spans through all these movies. But where did it come from? How is it found? Who found it? Who was the first Jedi? And that’s what I'm writing right now."

Source: ScreenRant