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Jon Favreau Set To Return As Showrunner For ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)

If true, great news!

 

[Verbal21]

I don’t know if I can wait for 2021 for season 2

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I don’t know if I can wait for 2021 for season 2

Well your going to have to.

 

[TheVileOne]

This sounds like great news. Clearly they have confidence n this show. And I think everyone can agree the overall response to what's been revealed so far has been fantastic.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Hopefully we get a Vanity Fair shoot like we did for Episode 9.

 

[Gothamsknight]

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Gorgeous!


I really hope we get an official trailer soon

 

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Gorgeous!


I really hope we get an official trailer soon

D-23 in August is my best bet.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I was right!

 

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[Marvolo]

Holy ****! For comparison, Mandalorian is starting with Game of Throne's season 8 budget. Giving Mandalorian a budget that size for its first season is a big show of confidence and commitment from Disney.

 

[TheVileOne]

I mean the production values based on the Celebration footage looked high. But that sounds promising.

 

[MurkeNyou]

Ah, was hoping someone posted the Favs interview.

 

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Exclusive: Jon Favreau Says He’s Already Writing and Pre-Shooting 'The Mandalorian' Season 2

But ahead of the launch this fall, Favreau says he’s already writing The MandalorianSeason 2. Speaking with Collider’s own Steve Weintraub at the press day for The Lion King, the filmmaker talked about how he wrote scripts for the first season of the series on spec and is currently in the midst of writing Season 2:

“I keep getting pulled deeper into the orbit of Disney, but fortunately the stuff that Disney’s working on is the stuff that I love. I wanted to do a Star Wars TV show like The Mandalorian and pitched it to them and they were very open to it. I even wrote four episodes before I even was hired to do it because I was excited as a fan to see what these stories might be and see if they were interested in doing what I was interested in, which they were. And I was actually writing Season 2 this morning before I came here.”

But not only is Favreau already writing The Mandalorian Season 2, he’s actually in pre-production on the second season. Now, the series isn’t made like your typical TV show—Favreau and his team are using VR technology similar to how they made The Lion King in order to map out precisely how the live-action pieces of The Mandalorian are shot, and to be able to render visual effects in real time.

The director explained this unique process:

“In The Mandalorian because we’re doing live-action production, we’re using the Epic game engine and using that to do real-time in-camera visual effects. So if you visited the set for The Mandalorian you would’ve seen a completely video-wall wrapped stage and we were in there filming the characters in the foreground, and oftentimes either blue screen or full digital versions of set extensions in the background with Parallax, because the positional data of the camera was informing the backgrounds, so it was like a translight that had perspective. So that allowed us to have environments—as long as we could build them digitally and put enough work into planning it, we could have the game engine be used for creating effects in a timeframe that allows us to get a TV season done.”

But, as Favreau explains, in order to do this he and his team have to map things out beforehand in pre-production. Which is where they are in The Mandalorian Season 2 right now:

“But all of that requires us to use the same v-cam techniques in pre-production on The Mandalorian so that we know exactly what we need to see. So if you visited the set now as we’re starting to get into Season 2, it looks a lot like the set of The Lion King as we’re planning how we’re gonna shoot it ahead of time.”

 

[JimThompson]

This is the only Star Wars project I am interested in at the moment.

 

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This is the only Star Wars project I am interested in at the moment.

You and me both.

 

[Verbal21]

It’s crazy how many Boba Fett exclusives were at SDCC this year. Disney’s definitely holding out for D23 and I hope there’s just as many cool Mandalorian items as Boba.

 

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Jon Favreau Shares Advice George Lucas Gave Him For ’Star Wars’ Show

The Mandalorian is the first live-action Star Wars television (“television”) show. So no wonder Lucasfilm entrusted Iron Manfilmmaker Jon Favreau, who helped kick off the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with guiding the series. But even he needed a little help… from none other than George Lucas himself.

“We had a long talk with each other,” Favreau told GQ Middle East. “One thing he said to me was, ‘Remember, Jon, the real audience for all stories and all myths is the kids that are coming of age,’ because he’s really a Joseph Campbell adherent.” (Lucas used Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, specifically the “hero’s journey,” as a guideline of sorts while plotting Star Wars.)

Favreau continued, “We enjoy the stories as adults, but really, storytelling is about imparting the wisdom of the previous generations on to the children who are becoming adults, and giving them a context for how to behave and how to learn the lessons of the past without making the mistakes on their own. That’s the hope, that you can teach them how to avoid all the hardship but garner all the wisdom.” You might even call it some sort of circle, maybe of life.

Anyway, The Mandalorian takes place after the Ewoks-toppling-the-Empire events Return of the Jedi, “so the Empire is gone and all hell is breaking loose in the Outer Rim,” Favreau recently said on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “And it’s about the scum and villainy, that once you take out the rule of law, what happens? Chaos takes over and you have all of these unseemly characters.” I expect at least one scene of random weird aliens drinking in a bar every episode.

 

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I legit cannot wait for this. It's becoming difficult.

 

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August 23. So close, yet oh so far...

 

[JimThompson]

Honestly, this seems to be the only draw for the new Disney streaming service.

 

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'The Mandalorian': Giancarlo Esposito’s Character Could Be a Gangster or “a Savior” [Exclusive]

Giancarlo Esposito was on a Television Critics Association panel Saturday for the new Epix series Godfather of Harlem. Esposito plays Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. to Forest Whitaker’s Bumpy Johnson in the gangster series. Of course, Esposito’s Breaking Bad character Gus Fring was a memorable gangster, and he lives on in Better Call Saul and he has a brief role as a very different kind of shady character in the first season of Amazon’s The Boys. He’s a busy man.

Esposito is also part of the cast of Disney+’s Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, and did an episode of the Shudder reboot of Creepshow. After his Gangster of Harlem panel, /Film was able to ask Esposito about his other two upcoming series.

Giancarlo Esposito’s Mandalorian Character Could Go Either Way
Disney is not revealing who many of the supporting characters in The Mandalorianare, and neither is Esposito. However, given his success playing criminal characters, he did concede that he may be playing another underworld character in a galaxy far, far away.

“In a way, you might call him an underworld character,” Esposito said. “You may also look at him as a savior, as someone who might bring back some order to the world after it’s all collapsed.”

That’s a great quote, but I wouldn’t get too excited that he’s playing a good guy. Most villains see themselves as heroes, so it sounds like juicy backstory for a very memorable antagonist.

Will We Recognize Giancarlo Esposito on The Mandalorian?
Esposito has been filming in “The Volume,” the space that allowed Avatar to create its Navi and Pandora, and how Robert Zemeckis filmed his performance capture films. There are also physical locations for The Mandalorian, so filming in The Volume suggests that it’s possible Esposito won’t look like Gus Fring, or any human, when it’s finished.

“It could suggest that,” Esposito said. “We are working in The Volume. It’s a very specific atmosphere and quite fascinating to work in. I don’t want to spoil anything for you but that does suggest I might have a different persona. Who knows?”

Even Esposito hasn’t seen the finished footage.

“I have not, so I’ll be as surprised as you, man,” Esposito said.

The Mandalorian Strives For Galactic Diversity
The Mandalorian has cast a diverse lot of actors, including Pedro Pascal, Omid Abtahi, Gina Carano, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte, Carl Weathers, Taika Waititi and more. Just like Godfather of Harlem represents a diverse cast in a black gangster story, The Mandalorian casts a wide net for diversity in the galaxy.

“It is a diverse cast, very different people but yes, diverse cast completely,” Esposito said. “That’s what Jon [Favreau] does. I’m so honored to be working with Jon Favreau who’s having such great success now and has always been one of my favorite people. I’m really happy that he is at the helm of this particular show.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Between this and TROS, my hype is through the roof for Star Wars in the coming months. Im so eager for Star Wars season to start.

 

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Will We Recognize Giancarlo Esposito on The Mandalorian?
Esposito has been filming in “The Volume,” the space that allowed Avatar to create its Navi and Pandora, and how Robert Zemeckis filmed his performance capture films. There are also physical locations for The Mandalorian, so filming in The Volume suggests that it’s possible Esposito won’t look like Gus Fring, or any human, when it’s finished.

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You can absolutely recognized him fine in the footage, he's the commanding Imperial diehard with the Death-Troopers, who commands and sends in the flame-troopers sais "burn them out!", . ...and later you see him in the Tie Fighter without a helmet.
He's not wearing any alien mask or mo-cap markers, so it's not like they are replacing his face.