Disgraced Former Star Wars Star Says Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau Met With Her About a Potential Return
The Cara Dune rehabilitation tour is apparently underway at Disney, and the only people not invited are the fans who watched Lucasfilm call her social media posts “abhorrent and unacceptable” only five years ago.
Gina Carano, the controversial figure who has missed out on the MandoVerse over the past couple of years due to her very public, very far-right activism, recently said that she had a friendly Zoom call with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau.
According to Carano, the call was “really lovely” now that Filoni is “taking over as CEO of Star Wars,” and that Favreau opened with the chummiest possible icebreaker: “So, where did we leave off?”
Where they left off, just to refresh everyone’s memory, was February 2021, when Carano shared an Instagram post comparing being a conservative in modern America to being Jewish during the Holocaust. (Yes, I know it’s been a while, but that really happened.)
That came after a string of pandemic-skeptic and election-fraud posts, and after some pronoun-related riffing. Lucasfilm cut ties, the rumored Cara Dune-led Rangers of the New Republic spinoff vanished, and the character has not been mentioned on screen since.
From “abhorrent” to “where did we leave off”
The path that led to this Zoom call ran through Elon Musk. Carano sued Disney and Lucasfilm in 2024 for wrongful termination, and X publicly bankrolled her legal bills.
The case was settled in August 2025, with Disney’s statement notably adding it looked forward to “identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future.”
The decision to reintroduce Cara Dune might have less to do with Kathleen Kennedy exiting and more to do with how the cultural landscape has shifted over the past few years.
For Hollywood, this was never about championing the rights of minorities or using sensitive language to represent what it stood for. Allegiances shift as quickly as they form, and today’s disgraced MAGA crusader is tomorrow’s comeback story with a Netflix documentary in development.
Does this mean Rangers is coming back?
Well, not quite. Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau have ambitious plans for the future of the MandoVerse beyond the upcoming The Mandalorian and Grogu movie. We still have Ahsoka season 2, and a capstone feature film bringing all the different projects together, to look forward to, not to mention an as-of-yet unconfirmed fourth season for The Mandalorian, which could get the go-ahead as soon as the May 22 theatrical release clears the bar Lucasfilm and the industry have set for it.
As for Rangers of the New Republic, there has been hearsay that the scrapped project might be revived as part of Carano’s confidential settlement, with Timothy Olyphant’s Cobb Vanth still attached and Favreau at the helm.
Admittedly, “we got onto a Zoom call” and “we didn’t miss a beat” is a long way from “abhorrent and unacceptable. Carano has not exactly taken back any of her stances, so it’s safe to assume the only thing that has actually changed in the last five years is Hollywood’s appetite for policing what its stars post online.
(featured image: Lucasfilm/Disney)
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