Dave Filoni is officially the new co-president of Lucasfilm, but the appointment has landed unevenly with fans, particularly following renewed scrutiny of his comments about one of the franchise’s most acclaimed recent projects.
‘Andor’ Finds Success Amid a Lukewarm ‘Star Wars’ Landscape
Recent years have been uneven for Star Wars, particularly as the franchise pivoted aggressively toward Disney+. The first season of The Mandalorian was widely embraced, but subsequent series struggled to generate the same momentum.
The Acolyte faced heavy backlash and was ultimately canceled after a single season. Even Obi-Wan Kenobi, despite bringing back Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan and Hayden Christensen and Anakin Skywalker, drew a notably mixed response from both critics and longtime fans.
That is what made Andor stand apart.
Created by Tony Gilroy, Andor serves as a prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), following Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in the years leading up to his involvement with the Rebel Alliance. The series trades lightsabers and legacy characters for grounded political tension, espionage, and the slow mechanics of resistance.
Rather than framing rebellion as a mythic destiny, Andor depicts it as a series of compromises, moral failures, and quiet sacrifices. Its storytelling is deliberately restrained, focusing on ordinary people navigating authoritarian rule rather than galaxy-spanning heroics.
Much of the show’s acclaim stems from that restraint. Fans and critics praised Andor for treating its audience seriously, leaning into mature themes such as surveillance, radicalization, and the cost of dissent. The series was frequently described as less concerned with expanding lore and more interested in examining power itself.
For many viewers, Andor represented a version of Star Wars that felt both new and overdue — a sharp contrast to a franchise increasingly defined by nostalgia and interconnected spectacle.
And yet the man set to take over the creative reins of a galaxy far, far away isn’t a fan.
Dave Filoni Isn’t a Fan of ‘Andor’ – And Fans Are Alarmed
According to The Wrap, Filoni “disliked” Andor.
“The series, a stark spy thriller about how tyranny takes root, is unquestionably the greatest creative triumph of the [Kathleen Kennedy] era,” the publication wrote in a recent report. “It was also, according to an individual who worked inside Lucasfilm, a series that Filoni disliked.”
Needless to say, some Star Wars fans haven’t taken well to the news. Many think Filoni’s anti-Andor sentiment is indicative of the direction the franchise will take under his tenure.
“So the best thing that they’ve put out in the past 10 years they will make sure never happens again?” one X, formerly Twitter, user wrote.
Another said, “Of course, it didn’t take an old EU novel and shit all over it. That’s Filoni’s favorite way of writing ‘Star Wars.'”
I’m not surprised dave filoni could never write something as strong and as powerful as Andor.
I'm not surprised dave filoni could never write something as strong and as powerful as Andor. https://t.co/4cwf1opIdx
— Thomas Thorburn (@ThomasThorbur11) January 16, 2026
“Andor is for adults not for children like most Star Wars content,” one said. “Which is the kind of garbage he prefers.”
What’s Next For Dave Filoni’s ‘Star Wars’?
Regardless of Dave Filoni’s feelings towards the show, a third season isn’t on the cards for Andor.
While showrunner Tony Gilroy initially envisioned the show as a five-season project, he ultimately decided to condense the storyline into two dense seasons after realizing the full extent of Season 1’s production process.
Diego Luna also emphasized the impossibility of making future seasons.
“We work two years and a half for each season of this show,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “Imagine five seasons. It’s impossible. That’s more than a decade doing just one show. It’s impossible to keep the rigor, the attention to detail that we have in this show. So it was the best that could happen, saying, ‘let’s have two seasons. Let’s finish in a moment where we are all loving what we’re doing.'”
Without Season 3 of Andor – and with the exception of Ahsoka Season 2 – the upcoming Star Wars release slate is primarily composed of theatrical projects.
Next up is The Mandalorian & Grogu, which will take Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu from Disney+ to the big screen. If recent reports are accurate, it will also usher in the end of the MandoVerse, a collection of projects largely overseen by Filoni before his ascension to co-president.
This will be followed by Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter, a standalone adventure set five years after the events of the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Theoretically, we are also set to receive a Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy-directed film focused on Rey (Daisy Ridley) as she attempts to rebuild the Jedi Order after The Rise of Skywalker.
Then there’s the James Mangold project that will apparently “go back to the dawn of the Jedi” in a story set around 25,000 years before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). Kennedy recently confirmed that a script is complete, but the film is currently on hold.
Similarly, Taika Waititi has apparently submitted a “hilarious and great” script for an unknown project, while Donald Glover has submitted a draft for a standalone spinoff film focusing on Lando Calrissian in which he would reprise his role as the iconic gambler.
While Star Wars has gained a reputation in recent years for greenlighting then abandoning projects (RIP Rian Johnson’s trilogy), fans remain hopeful that the studio’s new leadership will usher in a more proactive era.
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