In a new interview with SFX Magazine, Jon Favreau shared that The Mandalorian and Grogu does not carry the Star Wars mythos forward, but confirmed that the second season of the Ahsoka series does.
“Anybody who saw the sequels knows that there’s a First Order coming in, like, 20 years from where we are now in the storyline,” he commented. “And then Ahsoka season 2 is coming out – which I’ve seen all of – and that’s definitely more dealing with the larger [picture], a higher level. That’s about the officers and we’re the enlisted men – this is more of a ground-level experience of what’s going on. You’re seeing the backdrop – which, by the way, is what the first Star Wars started off as.”
The Mandalorian season 3 teased the rise of the First Order through the Shadow Council, an ominous gathering of Imperial remnants – and then Grand Admiral Thrawn returned at the end of Ahsoka season 1. “If you look at the fall of empires, historically, a lot of the power brokers become warlords,” Favreau shared, “and anybody with a standing army had power in the ancient world. We see that repeat itself in history. I guess what the Shadow Council alluded to is that they’re starting to actually connect. It’s not just insulated warlords anymore, and there’s a larger scheme afoot. There’s something going on and Thrawn is sort of the missing link that we began to allude to at the end of season 3.”
The Mandalorian and Grogu arrives in cinemas on May 22nd, whilst the second season of Ahsoka is expected on Disney+ later this year.
