Jon Favreau is directing this live-action TV series.
Looks TIGHT.
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Production on the first Star Wars live-action streaming series has begun!
After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.
The series will be written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated producer and actor Jon Favreau, as previously announced, with Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels) directing the first episode.
Additional episodic directors include Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates), and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok).
It will be executive produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. Karen Gilchrist will serve as co-executive producer. Stay tuned to StarWars.com for updates.
One thing is for sure, there are some badass women in this series. Not sure where they were at during the original trilogy if this only takes place five years later, but it's still cool to see. [Reply]
The only thing I can really compare to the sheer unbridled happiness I felt while watching the finale is the culmination/final battle during Avengers Endgame. I literally had tears of both happiness and sadness. My God was that enjoyable.
WATCH IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!!!!! SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE ARE GOING TO BE RAMPANT ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Reply]
Originally Posted by luv:
One thing is for sure, there are some badass women in this series. Not sure where they were at during the original trilogy if this only takes place five years later, but it's still cool to see.
Spoiler!
Bo-Katan and Koska would have been fighting the Empire on Mandalore. Cara Dune would have been fighting the Empire somewhere, maybe even Endor.
Fennec there's no way to know, but she's appearing during the Bad Batch series, so we'll probably have an answer to her whereabouts soon.
Originally Posted by arrowheadnation:
The only thing I can really compare to the sheer unbridled happiness I felt while watching the finale is the culmination/final battle during Avengers Endgame. I literally had tears of both happiness and sadness. My God was that enjoyable.
WATCH IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!!!!! SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE ARE GOING TO BE RAMPANT ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched it last night so I didn't get spoiled but its already all over social media. No way your not going to get spoiled. Just stay away from the internet until you see it. Well besides here. We are good at putting stuff in spoilers in this thread. [Reply]
As someone who lived his whole life with an unfettered love of the original trilogy, got massively disappointed by prequels and sequels, that was maybe the best thing I have ever seen in Star Wars. I grew up with Luke, he was my hero, I watched those movies dozens of times. Even to this day Empire Strikes Back may be my favorite movie. I read EU books, comic books, everything. Saw the post RotJ Luke only in my mind. Never on screen. Until today.
I knew it was a possibility that he could show up, but I never believed for a second they'd actually do it. And I don't think they could have done it better.
The X-Wing shows up. I'm like 'no ****ing way'. Cara says 'One X-Wing. Great.' I laugh.
He walks the halls, cloak flowing behind him. He lights his green saber and I know. I'm in tears at this point, realization defeating disbelief. He carves through the Dark Troopers in a scene reminiscent of Vader at the end of Rogue One, but without the rage. This is a true Jedi Master in his prime.
But they don't show his face. They don't show his face until the very end. It's perfect
This is MY Luke Skywalker, and now he'll be EVERYONE'S Luke Skywalker.
I didn't actually want this to happen. Didn't realize it was exactly what needed to happen.
This brings everything together. All the eras.
And I loved it in a way I've never loved anything outside of the OT.
And we get the Book of Boba, too!
I don't know where the show goes now. Grogu is gone. It's gonna be different. The Mandalorian becomes Mand'alore? Will be a different show.
But who cares.
Luke ****ing Skywalker!
So amazing.
Spoiler!
Same, brother. Same.
I was the biggest Expanded Universe Star Wars nerd. Because of Luke and his journey. I cried when Anakin Solo died. I got worried when Luke started saying there was no true Dark Side, only Dark people. I slogged through so much trash just to get a fix.
And then it was all ripped away. Disney taketh... but with The Mandalorian and specifically this episode, it has given - and made up for everything.
Goosebumps broke out when I saw the X-Wing behind our Mando and crew in the viewport. They stayed throughout the rest of that scene.
We've never seen a Jedi crumple a droid from the inside out - maybe in the Clone Wars, can't recall.
That's exactly the kind of thing I always pictured post-ROTJ Luke doing. Just an amazing scene.
They did a great job of replicating how his cloak flowed in Jabba's Palace, too. Just everything looked perfect, Mark's voice sounded right out of 1983.
