Ahead of his live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian being shown to audience members at D23 Expo in Anaheim, California this weekend (the series will be part of the dedicated Disney+ streaming service panel on Friday, Aug. 23 at 3:30pm), Jon Favreau spoke at length with The Hollywood Reporter about a variety of topics. The interview session covers items such as the advancements in the technology used to develop entertainment properties and how things have changed over the decades compared to when George Lucas was behind the camera creating Star Wars films.
The article also gives us a look at models of two currently-unnamed characters from The Mandalorian (click the image below for a closer view) and confirms that a trailer of some kind will be shown during D23 which should be available to watch on the official Star Wars YouTube Channel shortly thereafter.
The debut episode of The Mandalorian will be coming our way on Nov. 12 via the new Disney+ streaming service. Season One is set to include eight episodes in total with work on a second season already underway. Check out the intro to THR’s article copied below and then head on over to the supplied source link for the full interview with Favreau.
The future of filmmaking is unfolding in a drab office park near a Whole Foods in Playa Vista. It’s where Jon Favreau assembled this summer’s $1.5 billion-grossing The Lion King using a gaming engine and a warehouse of cutting-edge artists and technicians, and it’s where the actor-writer-director-producer is sketching out season two of The Mandalorian, a Star Wars TV series set to debut Nov. 12 on the new Disney+ streaming service (and to be teased with a trailer at the D23 conference Aug. 23). Favreau, 52, invited Hollywood Reporter editorial director Matthew Belloni to a conference room lined with pictures of Tatooine’s finest to talk about his crazy summer (in addition to Lion King, he co-starred in the $1 billion-grossing Spider-Man: Far From Home and dropped The Chef Show on Netflix) and to unveil his new endeavor, Golem Creations, named for the man-made creature from folklore that represents an artistic creation brought to life by magic. It’s a logical next step for a multihyphenate who, since writing and starring in Swingers in 1996, has carved out a unique (and lucrative) niche combining his passions for storytelling and technology, launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the tech-heavy Iron Man and developing immersive video walls to use with live actors on Mandalorian.
