Star Wars announced on Wednesday that a brand new series will be coming to Disney+ beginning May 4 (Star Wars day!): an eight-episode documentary series called Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian. Additionally, the series finale of The Clone Wars will release on May 4, which is a Monday, rather than its usual Friday release schedule. I'm [...]
With 2019 over, let’s take a look back at the best moments from Star Wars over the past calendar year, giving out several awards. We’ll hand out the hardware for best film, best show, best book, best comic, best comic arc, best episode, best game, best song, best hero, best villain, best performance, biggest surprise, [...]
Season one of The Mandalorian recently wrapped up on Disney+, and the season finale contained some intriguing teases for where the show might go next. Showrunner Jon Favreau didn't leave us in suspense for long as to when season two will drop, as he posted on social media that the second season of the popular [...]
Before The Mandalorian ever premiered on Disney+, it was renewed for a second season. That's a high vote of confidence in the show, and the second season apparently began filming in October. With all the buzz about the show right now, though, showrunner Jon Favreau took to social media to share a photo of the [...]
With the launch of the series premiere of The Mandalorian came Dave Filoni's live-action Star Wars directorial debut. But he's a veteran when it comes to Star Wars storytelling. Vanity Fair's Anthony Breznican recently wrote a feature on Filoni, the man who runs Lucasfilm animation and who was essentially George Lucas's apprentice. He's a brilliant [...]
Jon Favreau is a busy man. This live-action remake of The Lion King released this year and has grossed over $1.6 billion at the box office, making it the seventh-highest grossing film of all-time currently. His Star Wars live-action TV series, The Mandalorian, will release on November 12 on Disney+. And his cooking show, The [...]
To promote his new film The Lion King, Jon Favreau recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and talked about The Lion King primarily, his cooking show, and also The Mandalorian. He didn't reveal a whole lot about The Mandalorian and didn't really say anything about the upcoming season that we didn't know, but he did [...]
Not much is known about The Mandalorian, the live-action Star Wars TV show coming to Disney+ later this year, but we do know a basic premise and the phenomenal list of directors. One such director is Taika Waititi, who is perhaps best-known for directing Thor: Ragnarok. He'll be directing an episode of The Mandalorian, and [...]
Will one of the more influential characters in the Star Wars universe be making an appearance in The Mandalorian? Jon Favreau recently shared this photo on Instagram of a droid that looks strangely familiar... https://www.instagram.com/p/BtM4dbqhJIe/ That sure looks a lot like R5-D4, doesn't it? For those who are unfamiliar, R5 is the droid that Owen [...]
Last week, Making Star Wars reported that IG-88 will appear in The Mandalorian, and on Christmas Jon Favreau shared a gift with fans that seemingly confirmed that report, as he shared an image of the assassin droid on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Br0RONGBpv6/ IG-88 first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back as one of the many bounty hunters [...]
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