Talking with Variety.com, Jon Favreau has confirmed that the third season of The Mandalorian, arriving March 1st on Disney+, will not feature or debut the characters from the upcoming show Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.
Favreau has already built out “The Mandalorian” mini universe with “The Book of Boba Fett,” which reintroduced the iconic bounty hunter, and “Ahsoka,” the upcoming series starring Rosario Dawson as the fan-favorite protege of Anakin Skywalker. And then there’s “Skeleton Crew,” created by Marvel’s “Spider-Man” director Jon Watts, which Favreau is executive producing. Jude Law stars in the series, which is a Spielberg-esque coming-of-age story set in the same “Mandalorian” era. “Skeleton Crew” is scheduled to air this year, but unlike Boba Fett and Ahsoka, the characters will not first appear in “The Mandalorian.”
“Each storyteller brings their own personality to it. The groups that are working on [‘Skeleton Crew’] are led by Jon Watts, whom I collaborated with on all the ‘Spider-Man’ movies. This has been a real fun time and the great filmmakers that he’s engaged with have been bringing their perspectives as well,” Favreau says.
Favreau was also asked if we’ll see The Mandalorian and Grogu make the transition to the big screen….
“There’s always an opportunity when you have a set of characters and stories that people connect with that you could cross media into different areas. Marvel does it quite effectively,” he says. “It’s just a matter of where our time should be spent and what the appetite of the audience is. With all these stories we’re telling, it definitely is a full-time job just keeping this going with what we’re doing now. Television has a much different rhythm and schedule than film does.”
It’s a very Marvel-ous approach to building out the “Star Wars” universe, but Favreau says the two franchises rub off on each other.
“I speak to [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige regularly, and we’re always watching each other’s stuff,” he says. “Clearly I’ve worked in the MCU and I’m dealing with people who worked in ‘Star Wars’ for a long time. There’s a lot of overlap, and certainly in the fan base. I think one informs the other, that’s just the nature of storytelling, on the technological side as well as stylistically.”
Read the interview in full at the link below, and don’t miss the new season of The Mandalorian, streaming March 1st exclusively on Disney+.
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