Entertainment Weekly has released their cover story for their 2020 Fall TV Preview issue featuring Din Djarin and The Child from Season 2 of The Mandalorian live-action series which is set to premiere exclusively on Disney+ October 30. There will be two covers for this issue Star Wars fans should be on the lookout for – the regular newsstand cover that has The Child front & center and a Barnes & Noble exclusive cover that places Din with a pouched Child hanging from his side.
Both covers will be available beginning September 18 (click the images below for a closer look at each cover).
In the featured story previewing Season 2 of The Mandalorian, we get a new shot of Din on a speeder bike as well as new looks at returning characters Greef Karga and Cara Dune.
Series creators Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni speak about Season 2 in the article and Gina Carano had this to say about the various Season 2 casting reports/rumors that have surfaced on the web over the past several months:
Expect the Outer Rim to get a lot more crowded in season 2. While Disney has not confirmed any new cast members or their characters, there’s a rogue’s gallery of actors who seem optimized for a Comic-Con panel reportedly coming on board: Rosario Dawson (Sin City) as Clone Wars fan favorite Jedi apostate Ahsoka Tano, Temuera Morrison (who played Jango Fett in the prequels) playing presumably some version of a clone trooper or iconic bounty hunter Boba Fett, Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) as a live-action version of Bo-Katan Kryze, and also Michael Biehn (The Terminator) and Timothy Olyphant (Justified) as unknown characters.
“Some of them are true, some are not sure,” says Gina Carano, who plays mercenary Cara Dune on the show. Carano notes the heightened secrecy included actors getting scripts only for their own episodes and being ushered to sets in black cloaks and hoods like incognito Sith Lords.
Some takeaways from Favreau, Filoni, and others with regards to where things will be heading in Season 2:
– As was the case with the debut season, Season 2 will contain eight episodes.
– Episode storylines will expand beyond the story of Din Djarin and The Child.
– Din and The Child will be pursued by Giancarlo Esposito’s character Moff Gideon.
– Din and Gideon will be squaring off in what Esposito refers to as “an iconic battle.”
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