Dave Filoni Confirms The Mandalorian Climactic Event Is Still Happening

In December 2020, Kathleen Kennedy announced during a Disney investor's event that the stories being told by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni in The Mandalorian and its spin-off series would culminate in a 'climactic story event'. However, no more details were provided, and we've heard nothing about that event since... Until now.



In a new interview with TheWrap, Filoni confirmed that said event is still very real, and in fact, it's not contradictory to Jon Favreau's recent comments about The Mandalorian not having an end plan yet. Said Filoni:

He added that a big part of the creative process that he and Jon Favreau have involves a lot of planning ahead and having a sense of the overall picture, even if there isn't a clear end in sight for The Mandalorian yet:

He was also asked about the process of bringing characters from animation into live-action, which The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett have done repeatedly. Filoni explained that to him, they are just characters that populate these Star Wars stories, and they always try to bring them in the most organic way possible:

A perfect example was Cad Bane, the lone ranger from The Clone Wars that was brought into live-action in the last couple of episodes of The Book of Boba Fett out of the necessity of having another antagonist for the titular character of the series. He then added that this process will continue, especially in Ahsoka:

A lot of exciting things are coming down the pipeline over the next few months. At Star Wars Celebration we'll be getting some major Ahsoka announcements, including a trailer and likely a release date. But with the convention not happening again until 2025, maybe Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni think it's time to give some clarification about where this is all going. We know that characters from Skeleton Crew are going to appear in The Mandalorian season 4, which is already in storyboard phase and could begin shooting within the next few months.



But what then? Could Filoni and Favreau announce what this 'titanic event', as Filoni describes it, will be about? The timing of this interview certainly lines up with Lucasfilm bringing the topic back into the conversation. With Grand Admiral Thrawn being brought into live-action in Ahsoka, there is heavy speculation that this could all coalesce into an adaptation of sorts of the Heir to the Empire story from the 1990s novels by Timothy Zahn. Those books followed Han, Luke, and Leia in a post-Return of the Jedi world where they faced off the last remaining Imperial forces, spearheaded by Grand Admiral Thrawn. The protagonists will likely differ from the book's, but The Mandalorian has been teasing that there are still remnants of the Empire living in the Outer Rim, and they are more organized than what many want to believe. Filoni is a self-professed fan of the novels to the point that he brought its main antagonist into modern canon, making him the main villain of the last two seasons of Star Wars Rebels.



New episodes of The Mandalorian are coming out every Wednesday; Ahsoka will debut on Disney Plus later this year, either in late summer or early fall. Stay tuned for more Mandalorian news and check out Matt's review of Chapter 19 here!



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