Justin Ridge (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: Rebels) has replaced Dave Filoni as the supervising director of the on-going Star Wars: Rebels animated series. Filoni is still working on the show as an executive producer and continues to promote the show, however he will now be overseeing future animation development for Lucasfilm as well as continuing to direct episodes of Rebels from time to time.
Ridge is no stranger to working on Star Wars animation. He was previously an episodic director and storyboard artist on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He directed the episodes “Rookies”, “The Gungan General”, “Innocents of Ryloth” and “Holocron Heist” for that show, and he was one of the first people to be brought on board to work on Rebels. Since joining the crew of Rebels he directed the Sabine Wren and Zeb Orrelios prelude short episodes “Art Attack” and “Entanglement” respectively, as well as the penultimate episode of the first season “Rebel Resolve”.
A statement from Lucasfilm says the following:
“Dave is still just as involved as ever – overseeing all aspects of Star Wars Rebels production as Executive Producer and occasionally directing episodes. In many ways, mentoring Justin and moving him into the role as Supervising Director has made it possible for Dave to be even more immersed in the writing and story structure of the show as well as creatively overseeing future animation development. Justin started with Lucasfilm Animation on the first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and worked with Dave before that on Avatar: The Last Airbender, so they’ve been working together for quite some time.”
Filoni has held the title of supervising director on two Star Wars animated shows now- Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels. It’s possible that the “future animation development” is the reason for his visit to the Episode VIII set earlier this year.
The third season of Star Wars: Rebels is currently airing every Saturday on Disney XD.
Thoughts on this news? Are you looking forward to finding out more about the projects Dave Filoni is working on?
By Ruari Williamson
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