Dave Filoni has one of the guiding forces for the Star Wars universe since directing the 2008 feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and serving as writer, director and executive producer throughout the Clone Wars animated series and into Star Wars Rebels.
Because Star Wars Rebels takes place prior to the events of A New Hope, Dave Filoni has an interesting creative challenge in telling new stories that are also influenced by major “historical” events.
“[W]e’ve been kind of forging how these things evolve,” Dave Filoni told a small group of journalists backstage after the Rebels panel.
“I can’t remember when I wrote that line,” Rebels‘ showrunner Dave Filoni laughs.