The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau said Filoni “intuitively understands how to walk the line between learning and teaching.” The two became friends more than a decade ago when Filoni was finishing the first season of The Clone Wars and Favreau was at Skywalker Sound mixing 2008’s Iron Man. One reason Lucas liked working with Dave Filoni? “Well, you listen to me.” Filoni was persuasive-he could push-and the trust he earned allowed him to translate Lucas’s vision in ways that strengthened them both. For the next eight years, he worked side by side with Lucas, telling the battlefield stories of Anakin Skywalker before his transformation into Darth Vader, when he was fighting alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi and nurturing his own Padawan learner, the alien Ahsoka Tano, a young girl with distinctive white and blue “head tails” instead of hair, who was just as defiant and clever as her master.
Uprooting from Los Angeles to San Francisco was an easy choice for Filoni and his wife, Anne, a writer and teacher. “He just starts describing how Jedi would be in negotiating situations, how it relates to the Force, and how they fit into The Clone Wars scenario.” It took the younger man a moment to understand. “Then he shuts the portfolio and goes, ‘A Jedi Knight, in a situation where they’re bartering with somebody else, basically puts his lightsaber on the table and says, ‘Here’s how we’re going to do things,’ ” Filoni said.
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