CJS4715 said:
The role is more than just a creative type, so I don't see why people want to stick Filoni as the head of the studio. It might also do the franchise some good to move away from people who were close with Lucas.
Eh, the ideal solution would split it up: a creative head and a business head. Moving away from people who worked with Lucas as closely as Filoni did, who are intimately familiar with Legends and canon material and the concepts of Lucas' vision and how the force works, could also do as much or more harm than keeping those people in position. Granted, not completely adhering to Lucas' vision won't be a bad thing either.
Ideally finding someone who is passionate about the material to expand the universe and instead of going back to the well with established characters like they did with Solo and the proposed Boba Fett film, really is the way forward for the franchise. The franchise needs new characters that can actually grow/develop so audiences can form an attachment to them, rather than them being stagnant, and it's going to take a creative head who can cohesively tell a story. We were supposed to be getting that with the Sequel Trilogy, but I think we can agree that's not what we've gotten so far.
Filoni's series both were put in interesting places, one between two movies of the PT and the other before the OT. Regardless of how one may feel about the characters, one would have to admit that how he dove tailed the stories of the two series with the two trilogies, specifically the OT, was done pretty well. Additionally, with the EU being relegated as non-canon and the popular aspects of the EU/Legends, Filoni did try to incorporate aspects of the EU/Legends when appropriate.
