STAR WARS: Dave Filoni Teases His HEIR TO THE EMPIRE Plans And AHSOKA's Big Mortis Gods Tease

STAR WARS: Dave Filoni Teases His HEIR TO THE EMPIRE Plans And AHSOKA's Big Mortis Gods Tease

New Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave Filoni has shed new light on his "Heir to the Empire" plans, while also breaking his silence on that big Mortis Gods tease with Baylan Skoll in Ahsoka's finale...

By JoshWilding - Nov 23, 2023 10:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: SFFGazette.com

Dave Filoni was recently named chief creative officer of Lucasfilm, giving him the power to shape the Star Wars franchise moving forward. He's already developing Ahsoka season 2 and, beyond that, Filoni will helm a Star Wars movie that's expected to partially adapt Timothy Zahn's classic "Heir to the Empire" story. 

When Ahsoka concluded, the title character and Sabine Wren were left stranded in a strange Galaxy on a planet named Peridea. Grand Admiral Thrawn, meanwhile, had returned to the main Galaxy with The Great Mothers alongside him; they were last seen travelling to seemingly Dathomir to resurrect what many fans believe will be an army of undead Nightsisters. 

Talking to Vanity Fair (via SFFGazette.com), Filoni said the idea of exploring neighbouring Galaxies first came to him while watching Attack of the Clones

"If you look, there’s an image of the Galaxy, and then there are actually these smaller Galaxies near it," he tells the site. "So I’m like, 'Oh, that’s interesting.' You know me, I plan for a long game. I really do. And that encompasses a lot more than it used to, as I help other people as well."

When it comes to his plans for "Heir to the Empire," Filoni chose his words carefully but confirmed we won't necessarily see the classic Rebel soldiers vs. Stormtroopers battles which have come to define the Star Wars franchise. So, the New Republic vs. undead witches? It seems likely!

"I’m setting up what seems to be a larger conflict with the Imperial remnant. That conflict can’t just mirror what we’ve seen before. It has to take on a different shape. It can’t just be the Empire versus what looks like the Rebellion, or even the Republic. It has to be visually different."

Ahsoka left us with many unanswered questions, particularly in regard to what the deal was with those statues of the Mortis Gods on Peridea. Baylan Skoll appears to want to make their power his own, potentially opening the door to Abeloth being unleashed

"You have to be careful with that," Filoni said of a tease which was almost certainly lost on most casual Star Wars fans. "I know it’s a very specific group of people that would even know what those statues are, but I thought it was an exciting image, and it does give you the shape of what Baylan is after."

"[Baylan has] tried to take these teachings that he learned as a young person and create his own way of being. And he’s looked at the cycle of things and said, ‘Enough with this. If I have this power, I should wield it. I should be the one making decisions,’ which a lot of people with power decide that’s the way to go," he continues. "He’s also very certain that what he’s doing now is the right thing."

Ahsoka season 2 is expected to be released before Filoni's Star Wars movie, so that will likely be what answers some of these mysteries and sets the stage for the war which took place between the original and sequel trilogies. 

Are you excited about Filoni's Star Wars plans? Let us know in the comments section. 

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McMurdo
McMurdo - 11/23/2023, 10:43 AM
The last two episodes were so bad.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 11/23/2023, 11:01 AM
@McMurdo - 🧢
McMurdo
McMurdo - 11/23/2023, 12:20 PM
@FireandBlood - zero emotional fallout. Zero stakes or tension. Flimsy to no characterization. Final 2 hours were worst of the series.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/23/2023, 8:19 PM
@McMurdo - I watched the first episode maybe the first two because they were released both together.

But that was enough for me boring episode(s).
EZBeast
EZBeast - 11/23/2023, 10:43 AM
Disney eliminated the extended universe to create their own lore but yet again they come back to rely on nostalgia and call it their own. It’s this kind of shit that continues to piss me off…

Happy thanksgiving
MrDandy
MrDandy - 11/23/2023, 10:46 AM
@EZBeast - you do know Filoni created the Mortis lore, right lol
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 11/23/2023, 10:50 AM
@EZBeast - To a degree, I get why they abandoned the EU stuff, given the time that has passed in the real world, some of the stories would be hard to do directly, without recasting the original actors with younger versions, which they have said they won't do.

At least Filoni knows about the EU though, KK sat there straight faced and said:

"Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything..."

Now whether that was just a poor choice in words as they'd decided to scrap the EU, or whether she was truly that clueless about the franchise she'd taken over is hard to tell, but either of those just give you pause to think that she really isn't the person that should be leading up Lucasfilm...
EZBeast
EZBeast - 11/23/2023, 10:54 AM
@MrDandy - Timothy Zalhn wrote heir to the empire and created thrawn and the extended the lore after sw films finished. Disney elimanted them as cannon to make way for their own ideas and yet again come back because they can’t create anything good. Adding your mortis lore changes nothing if he is calling this heir to the empire lol
MrDandy
MrDandy - 11/23/2023, 10:45 AM
Im assuming that Filoni disliked Rise of Skywalker undoing Anakin’s prophecy role as the chosen one and will be using the Mortis arc to re-establish it. Anakin taking the place of the father, Ahsoka the daughter, and a yet unknown as the son.
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 11/23/2023, 11:52 AM
@MrDandy - I'm assuming he disliked it, as it was just badly written and not thought out.
HegoD
HegoD - 11/23/2023, 1:09 PM
@MrDandy - Ezra as the son
LordHarryLatts
LordHarryLatts - 11/23/2023, 10:48 AM
Ahsoka...which I was really excited for...turned out to be so colorless and bland. The action wasn't good. I'm really disappointed.
Cleander
Cleander - 11/23/2023, 10:55 AM
Filoni needs to be doing animation only. Writing and directing live action projects just highlights that it isn't the best medium to show his talents.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 11/23/2023, 11:03 AM
Filoni’s cooking and we ain’t ready
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 11/23/2023, 11:34 AM
“It has to be visually different”

One of the biggest mistakes Disney made recognised by Filoni
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/23/2023, 11:39 AM
@Nightwing1015 - very much agreed. The sequels invented a lot of story in-between movies so that we just could see rebels vs Empire again
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 11/23/2023, 2:09 PM
@bkmeijer1 - Honestly I wouldn't even have minded something SLIGHTLY different like New Republic vs Imperial Remenant. But they couldn't even do that and had to give us the shitty Resistance which is basically just Rebels again.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/23/2023, 2:34 PM
@Nightwing1015 - New Republic vs Imperial Remnant would've already been different, so I'm all for it. Think the Thrawn stuff could go in that direction
CoHost
CoHost - 11/23/2023, 11:36 AM
Not to fat shame but Thrawn needs some Ozempic
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/23/2023, 11:42 AM
"It has to take on a different shape."

100% agreed. Not only does this go for continuing the Star Wars universe and it's inhabitants taking on different forms, but also for it being an adaptation. If it's all just the same, there is no need in adapting it imo.

Anyway, I also like he mentions playing the long game. Look forward to some continuity between stuff. Including following up on such a small thing from AotC.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 11/23/2023, 11:55 AM
I don't follow this show but, when did DATA join the Blue Man Group and pop-up in the Star Wars universe??? 🤨
PartyKiller
PartyKiller - 11/23/2023, 12:04 PM
HAHAHA! Thrawn: A Fat Guy Wearing An Obvious Wig.
LilJimmy
LilJimmy - 11/23/2023, 2:14 PM
If only Filoni was in charge of the sequel trilogy then we could have complained about that too.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 11/23/2023, 2:58 PM
Star Wars is currently dead to me. Been let down too many times. Fool me three times...wont get fooled again. I'm happy pretending the only movies were the first three, and I can go back and reread Heir to the Empire.

Filoni has a lot of passion, which is nice, but I've never been a big fan of his storytelling.
JollyR
JollyR - 11/23/2023, 3:18 PM
The best thing they can do for Star Wars is move forward at least a few decades and make new interesting characters. Or use Cade Skywalker that was an awesome comic. I can't get in to all this prequel stuff knowing how it all ends anyway idk. They rejected the EU just to use characters and story's from it???
WhoCARES
WhoCARES - 11/23/2023, 10:22 PM
Whine whine whine pathetic to see so much moaning on here. I’m thankful Star Wars is still going big after all these years and even tough I’m a fan of the original trilogy the cheese has been there since the very beginning filoni revived Star Wars and now he’s the new target. The one and only question is « what have you whiners done and the answer is nothing » so when you film your movie and get it done you can come on here and complain until then you’re just entitled pricks
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 11/24/2023, 8:51 AM
@WhoCARES - Umm, SW, before Disney bought it, was one the the world's most profitable entertainment franchises. Top 4 iirc. Now it is struggling to get Arrow season 4 numbers from the audience and is nothing more than a bunch of tv shows on a streaming platform that is losing more and more audience every show they put out. SW used to be about giant event movies that made insane amounts of money on the merchandise sales. Now Disney SW products sit on the shelves of bargain department stores cause they won't sell anymore. I'ts so awful and sad to see now what Disney has done to Lucas's SW story.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 11/23/2023, 11:54 PM
I liked the Anakin episode but man, the way Rosario is playing Ashoka is so off. Shes stuff, emotionless, sitting there with arms crossed all the time. I can't tell if its her acting or the writing.
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