Dave Filoni, producer for Lucasfilm, has commented on the “pressure” involved in making new episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
When news broke that the beloved Star Wars: The Clone Wars was returning for a new season, fans of the series were unsurprisingly very excited, with many never thinking that they would see the day.
The popularity of the series is well understood by the folks over at Lucasfilm and producer Dave Filoni has spoken to ComicBook.com about the responsibility he feels to get it right:
“With Clone Wars, I will say there is a bit of pressure because, obviously from [the reaction to the new season], the people loved it. I mean, they grew up with it. It was massive. So I do feel the pressure of wanting to make something amazing for them, and I challenge myself to not take the easy outs in the story and not do simple things.
“We’re also working at certain points with some material that we had written in the past, and so I’ve gone back and looked at it because I’m a different storyteller, and I think a better storyteller now. And how do we improve things, you ask yourself. I mean, we do that every season, in all honesty, so, in the last season, Rebels should be significantly better than the first. And the same is true for Clone Wars. So now how do I take a show that we stopped making five years ago and make it better than it was? That’s the challenge. We’re not just recreating it. We are continuing it, and we have to make it better.”
Fans of the show will be pleased to hear about the immense care and respect Filoni still has for the show and will hope this attitude will be reflected in a quality product once the new season airs. Do you think Lucasfilm will be able to meet Filoni’s goals and produce the best ever season of The Clone Wars?
