Dave Filoni Talks What Will Happen With Kanan and How Lucas and Tolkien Influenced Him for Star Wars: Rebels

In a new article from syfy.com, Shana O’Neil sat down with Lucasfilm’s own Dave Filoni to talk more about this past week’s episode of Star Wars Rebels.

 

SPOILERS AHEAD

 

After the episodes “Jedi Knight” and “Dume”, we know that Kanan Jarus is no longer alive after he saved the crew of the Ghost from a certain death, sacrificing himself by doing so. In the interview, O’Neil asks Filoni some questions about those episodes.  

Shana asked Filoni the obvious question: will we see Kanan again? With Filoni responding:

That’s a great question. I’m not gonna say. The only thing I would bring up about that, and I’m imagining flying force ghosts, is that I learned from George that being a force ghost isn’t just as easy as dying and then you reappear. There’s actually a whole philosophy and methodology around it that we got into in Clone Wars with Yoda and Qui-Gon and how Jedi in the prequel era don’t actually believe that you can maintain your own individual consciousness after death. They believe you’re part of the living force at first and then you pass on and become part of the cosmic force and part of the whole.

In that way, when you see the Dume wolf, to say that Dume isn’t exactly Kanan, it’s not his individual consciousness, but it is a part of the whole. All material is matter, all things at one level on the same level in different states constantly changing. So Dume is kind of a version of that. There’s a consciousness to some degree of Kanan in it, but not so active that it would say, “Hello, Ezra.”

 

 

So, Kanan’s spirit is out there. Kind of. In the words of Filoni, “he’s kind of a version of that”. I think these statements are perfect from Filoni. It was a tough blow to see one of the characters we’ve spent numerous years with die so suddenly, but having his spirit fully return as a force ghost immediately after would have felt cheap. Yet, part of him is there with Ezra talking.

 

Another interesting part of the interview is when Filoni discusses his interpretation of one of Yoda’s famous lines from Return of the Jedi:

“I do not subscribe at all to the idea that because there’s one line in a movie that says “When gone am I the last of the Jedi you will be” that my characters have to die. I don’t buy into that in the least. I think all those lines are subjective. When I see people saying they have to die, that’s absolutely not true.”

 

 

So, what does this mean for Ezra Bridger? Well, according to Filoni’s statement, there could be a chance he survives the show. The issue with Ezra possibly making it out of Rebels is we are bound to then ask the question: Where was he during the original trilogy? Filoni could have an answer that we just don’t know yet. With just 4 episodes left, we won’t have to wait long to see.

 

Star Wars Rebels returns next week with “Wolves and a Door” and “A World Between Worlds”.

 

For the full interview, including how George Lucas and Tolkien influenced Dave Filoni check out syfy.com.

 

 

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31 thoughts on “Dave Filoni Talks What Will Happen With Kanan and How Lucas and Tolkien Influenced Him for Star Wars: Rebels

  • February 24, 2018 at 7:06 pm
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    *one of Yoda’s famous lines from Return of the Jedi.

  • February 24, 2018 at 7:11 pm
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    In my mind JJ is having meetings with Dave and George all the time and he is learning a lot about Star Wars, to make 9 the best possible Star Wars movie :).

    • February 24, 2018 at 8:26 pm
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      He is a recognized prequel hater. So, he would never talk about the SW Universe’s lore with George or Filoni. The Disney directors only love the original trilogy and the rest (books, comics, prequels, TV shows…) doesn’t exist to them.

      • February 24, 2018 at 8:46 pm
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        I wish the prequels didn’t exist

        • February 24, 2018 at 9:31 pm
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          I wish the Disney Star wars didn’t exist.

          • February 24, 2018 at 11:18 pm
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            I wish we just had the Star Wars anthology films and new projects and the Saga was left alone at the end of RotJ.

          • February 26, 2018 at 3:00 pm
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            That’s a dumb thing to say and entitled.

        • February 24, 2018 at 9:44 pm
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          And I wish the Star Wars movies were directed by Filoni, and Timothy Zahn and James Luceno as co-writers and not by haters who doesn’t have any knowledge about the SW universe and only like a little portion about it. But that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.

          • February 25, 2018 at 12:32 am
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            Ugh.

          • February 25, 2018 at 1:03 am
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            Timothy Zahn and James Luceno aren’t screenwriters. Writing a few books that you liked doesn’t qualify someone to write new Star Wars movies.

          • February 25, 2018 at 1:59 pm
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            Maybe they aren’t screenwriters but some of their books are better than some movies and way much better than any of the Rebels episodes

          • February 26, 2018 at 2:43 am
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            Yeah that’s just not true. Zahn is the best writer in the old EU, but that says more about the poor quality of most of those novels than it does about his skills as an author.

        • February 24, 2018 at 10:23 pm
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          I disagree with you 100%

        • February 25, 2018 at 7:56 pm
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          I wish I could read endless [complaining] by people with absolutely no sense of proportion about a 20 year old movie.

          mod edit: please watch your language.

      • February 25, 2018 at 12:32 am
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        Yet he has.

        And That’s false.

  • February 24, 2018 at 8:16 pm
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    I am pretty sure Ezra and Sabine will survive Rebels. I still have a hope that they will be connected somehow to Star Wars Episode IX, however improbable that may be.

  • February 24, 2018 at 8:48 pm
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    That famous Yoda quote was from ROTJ not ESB.

  • February 24, 2018 at 9:19 pm
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    Sorry, Dave, I love ya, but Ezra needs to die.

    • February 26, 2018 at 7:46 pm
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      I don’t know about needs to die, but more of needs a proper explanation as to why he spent all this time fighting the Empire and then all of a sudden isn’t when the Rebellion would probably need a Jedi/Force User the most to fight along side Luke Skywalker.

  • February 25, 2018 at 12:32 am
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    ““I do not subscribe at all to the idea that because there’s one line in a movie that says “When gone am I the last of the Jedi you will be” that my characters have to die. I don’t buy into that in the least. I think all those lines are subjective. When I see people saying they have to die, that’s absolutely not true.”

    Well you shouldn’t have put two Jedi in the rebellion like you did.

    • February 26, 2018 at 12:40 am
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      But don’t you think that Yoda could have referred to the last of the jedi, as a formal term meaning Jedi, as known by Yoda, with the classic training of the old republic and the jedi order? So Luke would be the last of the jedi trained by Yoda in the ways of the Old republic? Of course he knows there are other force users out there, but maybe Yoda wouldn’t consider those to be true jedi.

      (yes I see that this takes a little ret-conning but hey, as someone once said, much of our truths depend on our point of view)

      • February 26, 2018 at 2:57 pm
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        Yes, but no one forced Dave to create his characters in the way he did, thus opening up such parsing of a very simple line.

  • February 25, 2018 at 12:58 am
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    I love what Dave Filoni has done with Star Wars lore. I don’t think there is anyone who ‘gets’ Star Wars quite like Dave does. You can tell that its a passion of his – and not just a job. Ahsoka, Ezra, Hera, Kanan… they are all great, well-fleshed-out characters that rival anything that has been done in the live action films. Ahsoka walking away from the Jedi was one of the best arcs in all of Star Wars. (I believe she is still alive).

    Filoni made the prequels 100X better by expanding upon all of their ideas. Anakin and Obi Wan became an awesome story that finally did justice to the legend. I would love to see Dave re-make Episodes 1,2, and 3 in animated form. Perhaps told from a slightly different ‘point of view’ – as Obi Wan would say.

    • February 25, 2018 at 5:21 am
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      Personally I’ve always found Ezra to bne annoying and whiny – and the Rebels characters can afford to be moire fleshed out given they have a huge amount more screen time than Luke, Han or Leia.

      • February 27, 2018 at 1:32 am
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        “Personally I’ve always found Ezra to bne annoying and whiny”

        Episode 4 Luke Skywalker – “Hold my blue milk…”

  • February 25, 2018 at 5:20 am
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    Ezra is Snoke confirmed!

  • February 25, 2018 at 6:32 am
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    Chopper is Snoke confirmed!

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