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Post #1392896

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sade1212
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The Bad Batch (animated series) - a general discussion thread - * SPOILERS *
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12-Dec-2020, 12:14 PM

There’s bits and pieces in The Art of the Rise of Skywalker from a meeting Lucasfilm had in ~2014, after the first draft of TFA was written, in order to decide what to do in VIII and IX. It included Filoni, Pablo Hidalgo, Dave Chiang, John Knoll etc. It was actually Filoni’s idea to have Leia train Rey after Luke fails to do so (he goes as far as to say Leia could become the “Obi-Wan” of the Sequel Trilogy) and that Leia should be the one responsible for Ben’s redemption, both ideas we see come about in TROS. Of course, that was before Carrie passed away or TLJ was written, so the wisdom of choosing to still use those ideas for IX anyway is questionable - but it’s clear evidence that Filoni was a creative influence on the sequels.

I think people underestimate his role at Lucasfilm - Kennedy isn’t stupid; she’s as aware as anyone that Lucas spent years teaching Filoni while they were making The Clone Wars. But Filoni isn’t a producer, and, as we see in the Mandalorian, he’s still only beginning to get his legs as a live-action director. Kennedy gets a bad rap because of the bumpy production of the sequels, but a lot of that comes down to Iger wanting to rush TFA out ASAP to recoup the costs of buying Lucasfilm, and then only giving each subsequent movie ~2 years rather than the 3 that the previous trilogies had.