Dave Filoni has revealed to The Wrap that bringing animated characters into live-action isn’t his priority, although he did tease of more to come in the Disney+ Ahsoka series.
How often are you thinking: “How can I get my cartoon characters into live-action?“
Very rarely. I know people think it’s the other way around, which is fascinating to me, but I think there’s two ways to look at that, which is that, yes, they were animated characters, but to me they’re just characters. And now I’m over here working in live-action. I’m comfortable with those characters, I know them, I like them and I like to see them around.
But also, it changes when they’re suddenly in a different medium. Katee’s talked about it a little bit, and the difference between performing Bo Katan as a voice actor versus performing her physically and being present on set as her – it’s a different vibe. I’m always cautious. And Jon and I talk about who will we bring in? I try to do it when it makes the most sense.
When we needed a gunslinger to go up against some of our characters in “Book of Boba Fett,” Cad Bane’s name came up. I think looking at that, the first thing I think is, “Well, how do we do that and make it believable?” Like the character, he’s so lean and gaunt in “The Clone Wars.” And if we don’t do that, is it all CG? How are we going to portray that? If we don’t think we can do that effectively, then we shouldn’t do it.
At the end of the day, I’ve been very happy with the ones that have gone over. There may or may not be more in “Ahsoka,” if that’s your thing. If you’re excited about that, I’m just saying that one might have a few more, which makes sense, by the way. As you know, I wrote it. You can’t fault me there.
Read the interview in full here. We expect to hear more about the Ahsoka series at next month’s Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 in London.
