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While the first season of theStar Warsspinoff has concluded (it’s available to stream on Disney+), Favreau has previously spoken about season two, which he said in December isset to drop this fall.
TheLion Kingdirector gave fans one hint about what to expect in the upcoming season in the season two announcement when he included a photo of yet another green alien character: a Gamorrean, a creature that first appeared inStar Wars: Return of the Jediguarding Jabba’s palace.
The Mandalorian, which stars Pedro Pascal as the titular character, takes place between the adventures of Luke, Leia and Han Solo in 1983’sReturn of the Jediand those of Rey, Fin and Kylo Ren in 2015’sForce Awakens.
The Hollywood Reporterreported in September that when Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the company also purchased Lucas’ outlines for three newStar Warsmovies. However, those story ideas were not used for the latest trilogy that recently concluded withThe Rise of Skywalker.
“We made clear … that we would not be contractually obligated to adhere to the plotlines he’d laid out,” Iger reportedly wrote in his new memoir,The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, according toTHR.
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And after watchingThe Force Awakens, Lucas was “didn’t hide his disappointment,” Iger said, according toTHR.
“‘There’s nothing new,’ he said,” Iger wrote. “In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to him to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, ‘There weren’t enough visual or technical leaps forward.’ He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentiallyStar Wars.”
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“We’d intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticizing us for the very thing we were trying to do,” Iger continued, according toTHR.
The latest trilogy has been met with mixed reviews, especially concerning the disparity some fans find between the Rian Johnson-directedLast Jediand the J.J. Abrams-directedRise of Skywalker.
Nonetheless, Abramssaid in an interviewwith IGN last April that Lucas was consulted for the trilogy’s latest installment.
“This movie had a very, very specific challenge, which was to take eight films and give an ending to three trilogies, and so we had to look at, what is the bigger story? We had conversations amongst ourselves, we met with George Lucas before writing the script,” Abrams told the outlet.
source: people.com
