Star Wars: The Mandalorian [** Spoilers **] [Disney+] (US Pace)

pixelburp

Confirmed to be the titled of the hitherto unnamed live-action Star Wars TV show; Jon Favreau posted on instagram, given set photos have already popped up so I expect more info to start trickling in.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BofTUzhBtrZ/

After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far rom the authority of the New Republic....

CastorTroy

Sabine Wren?

Agent Coulson

https://www.instagram.com/p/BofTUzhBtrZ/

Agent Coulson

Bryce Dallas Howard, Taika Waititi, and More to Direct ‘Star Wars’ Live-Action TV Series..

Disney has revealed the first look and directors for its “Star Wars” streaming TV series “The Mandalorian.”

Dave Filoni, who has worked on “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels,” will direct the first episode of the series. “Thor: Ragnarok” director Taika Waititi, Bryce Dallas Howard, “Dope’s” Rick Famuyiwa, and Deborah Chow (“Jessica Jones”) will direct additional episodes.

As previously announced, Jon Favreau will write and executive produce the series. The plot details were first revealed on Wednesday, with Favreau teasing “The Mandalorian” on Instagram.

“After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe,” read his post, in the style of a “Star Wars” opening crawl. “The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.”

Favreau is executive producing the show, which is being developed for Disney’s as-yet untitled streaming service, along with Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. Karen Gilchrist will serve as co-executive producer.

News that Disney was developing the live-action series was first revealed by CEO Bob Iger in March. It’s one of several projects in the works for the growing “Star Wars” universe at the studio.

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/star-wars-the-mandalorian-directors-first-look-1202969766/

Agent Coulson

First look.

NIMAN

IS that actually a scene from it?

It could just be a piece of art or computer graphics, hard to tell if its actually an actor in a suit or not, the CGI is that good these days.

pixelburp

Mod: merging with thread that was started yesterday :P

Kiith

That's definitely not CGI. Looks the part from that single screenshot anyway.

pixelburp

One things for sure: if Disney's (presumably initially US focused) streaming service doesn't get an international partner, it'll be one of the most pirated shows ever. Actually, even if it does it'll still be the biggest; the first 'proper' Star Wars TV show is a heck of a milestone.

CastorTroy

Netflix is streaming Titans here, which implies the DC network won't be available here so maybe the same for this.
I can see Sky getting the rights since they got other Star Wars shows. Though Disney mightn't be too keen after losing the Sky bid

Spon Farmer

NIMAN wrote: »

IS that actually a scene from it?

It could just be a piece of art or computer graphics, hard to tell if its actually an actor in a suit or not, the CGI is that good these days.

It is a real guy in a real suit. It might not be an actual scene - maybe it they just had him pose for a an announcement video but "production has begun" means it is shooting.

Faverau is writing all the episodes apparently that is an awesome list of directors - with the best man in charge of the first episode.

I thought shooting was a long way off yet - the is great news.

I don't think we need to worry about the whose or whens of seeing it over here - Disney will get that sorted as it won't want this pirated

Spon Farmer

pixelburp wrote: »

One things for sure: if Disney's (presumably initially US focused) streaming service doesn't get an international partner, it'll be one of the most pirated shows ever. Actually, even if it does it'll still be the biggest; the first 'proper' Star Wars TV show is a heck of a milestone.

Why do they need a partner? Surely they can manage it by themselves?

Agent Coulson

Spon Farmer wrote: »

Why do they need a partner? Surely they can manage it by themselves?

So many tv stations around the world have bought the rights to Disney films and tv shows for Disney to set up the worldwide steaming site just yet.

So they may need to a partner like Netflix or Amazon till they get back the rights

No point of having a worldwide streaming site when you have so little content to put on it would be my guess.

Spon Farmer

Agent Coulson wrote: »

So many tv stations around the world have bought the rights to Disney films and tv shows for Disney to set up the worldwide steaming site just yet.

So they may need to a partner like Netflix or Amazon till they get back the rights

No point of having a worldwide streaming site when you have so little content to put on it would be my guess.

New original content like this might be enough to get it running.

Disney own a lot of stuff that has been out of circulation for years too.

BTW, there is DisneyLife. Can't Disney just put their new streaming series on that?

Spon Farmer

I hope there is going to be mix of real locations and actual alien worlds.

And aliens that aren't just background.

Agent Coulson

Spon Farmer wrote: »

New original content like this might be enough to get it running.

Disney own a lot of stuff that has been out of circulation for years too.

BTW, there is DisneyLife. Can't Disney just put their new streaming series on that?

Disney won’t even have the rights to stream first 6 Star Wars films till 2024 in the States so that will give you an idea how complicated the rights are.

S.M.B.

Not sure if the whole thing is further complicated or simplified by the whole Disney / 20th century fox takeover. I'm assuming Sky would be the bus obstacle to streaming content to UK and Ireland.

Agent Coulson

S.M.B. wrote: »

Not sure if the whole thing is further complicated or simplified by the whole Disney / 20th century fox takeover. I'm assuming Sky would be the bus obstacle to streaming content to UK and Ireland.

Sky here will now be owned by Comcast who beat out Disney last week in the takeover.

S.M.B.

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Sky here will now be owned by Comcast who beat out Disney last week in the takeover.

Hadn't realised comcast won the bidding war.

Wonder how long the Sky / Disney contract lasts so.

Spon Farmer

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Disney won’t even have the rights to stream first 6 Star Wars films till 2024 in the States so that will give you an idea how complicated the rights are.

I know that but there is a lot of other content in Disney's vaults besides Princesses, Marvel and Star Wars.

And they already have streaming service over here.

CastorTroy

They have enough for multiple channels here so sure they have enough for a service.
And the stuff airing here is mostly recent so as was said, with all the stuff in the vault as well as new streaming material, they're sorted

brianregan09

Any back to the show , the Mandalorians always interested me since I played the Knights of the Old Republic Game on the x-box where you found out alot more about them and it has set after the Mandalorian wars so I'm really looking forward to this , I hope there isn't much clinging to the Fett's and its allowed to be it's own thing

Slydice

brianregan09 wrote: »

Any back to the show , the Mandalorians always interested me since I played the Knights of the Old Republic Game on the x-box where you found out alot more about them and it has set after the Mandalorian wars so I'm really looking forward to this , I hope there isn't much clinging to the Fett's and its allowed to be it's own thing

Have you been watching Clone Wars and Rebels? There's a bunch of story there.

Spon Farmer

brianregan09 wrote: »

Any back to the show , the Mandalorians always interested me since I played the Knights of the Old Republic Game on the x-box where you found out alot more about them and it has set after the Mandalorian wars so I'm really looking forward to this , I hope there isn't much clinging to the Fett's and its allowed to be it's own thing

As Slydice said, there is a lot in the animated shows to learn about the Mandalorians. It is some of the best stories they told. And the upcoming Clone Wars final season will return to Mandolore.

And Faverau voiced Pre Vizla (a Mando vilain in Clone Wars) too.

The Mandolarian prime minister told Kenobi Jango feat "was no Mandolorian". I'm unclear as to whether that means Jango was just using stolen armour or whether his life as a mercenary was an embarrassment to his people so he was disowned.

I think we can expect some minor references to the Fetts - maybe this new guy gets mistaken for Boba a couple of times or something - but I don't think they will very much want this show to be it's own thing.

And I hope they are making a fun action adventure show - I love Force Awakens and Last Jedi but they are far too grim with Leia & Han's kid being evil and killing of Luke & Han. I think the writers were far to concerned with giving the heroes a good send off and missed that Mark Hamill has enough love and life in him to play Luke for the next few decades.

EoinMcLovin

Pedro Pascal has been offered lead role
https://tvline.com/2018/11/13/star-wars-tv-series-pedro-pascal-cast-the-mandalorian/

JP Liz V1

The Mandalorian — the title of which references a legendary tribe of warriors in Star Wars canon — will follow a “lone gunfighter” (played by Pascal) who becomes part of the Star Wars universe “after the stories of Jango and Boba Fett.”

https://tvline.com/2018/11/13/star-wars-tv-series-pedro-pascal-cast-the-mandalorian

Agent Coulson

Gina Carano joins the cast she won't need a stuntwoman to do her fight screens anyway.

Agent Coulson

Nick Nolte joins the cast.

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/the-mandalorian-nick-nolte-1203066612/

Mr Crispy

More (exciting) cast members revealed; Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Carl Weathers, Omid Abtahi, and Werner Herzog!

Agent Coulson

Some great casting there.

pixelburp

Werner Herzog? Holy heck, my interest has immediately perked up. That's a fabulous piece of esoteric casting.

Mr Crispy

Has anyone seen the footage from the panel doing the rounds? Getting a real wild west outlaw vibe off the tiny bit of footage seen.

Slydice

Yeah I saw it. Wasn't a trailer so I wasn't pushed on thinking too much about it. I guess they don't wanna do two trailers on the one weekend.

The panel discussion at Star Wars Celebration did sound like they were thinking Seven Samurai / The Magnificent Seven. More Samurai which I hadn't seen yet. The cast is strong for a TV show.

I threw up the photos they released today on the thread on the Star Wars forum:

Slydice wrote: »

So no Trailer today. They just showed a sizzle reel at the Star Wars celebration event and haven't shared it online. There are some leaks floating about.

They put out a poster and 4 character images. I scaled their size down for the thread:

Title:


2 of The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal inside there ). 01:

02:


Gina Carano as Kara Dune:


Carl Weathers as Greef Karga:

pixelburp

Actor Karl Weathers!

Yeah, I can't take him seriously anymore, ever since his appearance as himself in Arrested Development

ixoy

pixelburp wrote: »

Actor Karl Weathers!

Yeah, I can't take him seriously anymore, ever since his appearance as himself in Arrested Development

As soon as I saw the picture, all I could think of was:
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going. "

Mr Crispy

Slydice wrote: »

Yeah I saw it. Wasn't a trailer so I wasn't pushed on thinking too much about it. I guess they don't wanna do two trailers on the one weekend.

There's a full five minute scene doing the rounds though. Filmed on a phone obviously, so probably worth waiting for a proper reveal.

Slydice

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

There's a full five minute scene doing the rounds though. Filmed on a phone obviously, so probably worth waiting for a proper reveal.

Does it involve showing some of the production crew and cameras and director talking about the show?

I've seen multiple versions but nothing that looks like a trailer.

Mr Crispy

Slydice wrote: »

Does it involve showing some of the production crew and cameras and director talking about the show?

I've seen multiple versions but nothing that looks like a trailer.

No. I've seen the one you're talking about too. This one isn't a trailer either; it's five or so minutes of continuous footage shown to the crowd in Chicago.

Here it is, and this one actually has a lil trailer attached at the end. The quality is terrible though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0dhPm3vbyE

pixelburp

Werner Herzog is a pleasant surprise, but on watching that recording, it looks a little ... *shrug* Not sure what I was expecting - and to be fair it might all be from the pilot - but I'm completely sick of seeing the same dusty, desert, Mos Eisley knock-off location that Disney seemingly have mandated now for every production. I know the Last Jedi caused some fans to cry into their stormtrooper pillows, but this nostalgic masturbation is getting tedious.

Slydice

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

No. I've seen the one you're talking about too. This one isn't a trailer either; it's five or so minutes of continuous footage shown to the crowd in Chicago.

Here it is, and this one actually has a lil trailer attached at the end. The quality is terrible though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0dhPm3vbyE

Now that was a fair bit more than I'd seen!

Mr Crispy

Herzog talking it up. I already posted this in a thread on the SW forum, but I'm hedging my bets and reposting here until one of them becomes the main one for discussion of the series :pac:

pixelburp

Hard to see how this won't end up the most pirated show of the year when it finally comes out; even if some international networks do a deal, I can see it being quickly acquired en masse ala Game of Thrones

Mr Crispy

pixelburp wrote: »

Hard to see how this won't end up the most pirated show of the year when it finally comes out; even if some international networks do a deal, I can see it being quickly acquired en masse ala Game of Thrones

Yeah, especially if there's positive early reviews/buzz about it.

Slydice

Work on season 2 has begun!

There Will Be a Second Season of The Mandalorian
https://io9.gizmodo.com/just-like-the-crushing-inevitability-of-time-itself-th-1836312528

It’s honestly like turning over your toy chest and playing with all the Star Wars toys together. We’re having a great time, it’s all new characters, it’s going to be on Disney+ coming up in the fall and we’re done with the first season—I was actually writing part of the second season now, so I’m having a blast.

It’s the first time we’ve actually heard Favreau talk about the existence of a second season, but... are we really surprised?

pixelburp

Not entirely the biggest surprise, presumably any production expense can be absorbed with Disney's huge warchest.

I'm guessing a comic con trailer has be on the way.

Agent Coulson

This was one show that was never getting cancelled after one season more matter.

Agent Coulson

Ming-Na Wen joins the cast.

May to kick ass in a Galaxy far far away.

Slydice

Oh!

Oh this is good news!

I think .. right? She could easy do a serious gunslinger .. do we have the funny personality to go alongside her though?

Agent Coulson

pixelburp

THIS ISN'T YOUR GRANDDAD'S STAR WARS!!1!

I see what has been said about it being a little grittier - a small amount of blood here & there, while looks like we got a dude sliced up by an iris door - but it's all setting, no plot. Nothing to take from it re. story.

It looks like a (many) millions of dollars, but ... I dunno. I need to see more of these characters, and if it should give a sh*t about them first.

Slydice

looks dark and like it's being done right!

doesn't hurt that this is pair behind the first episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandalorian