In December, an hour-long look at the making of The Mandalorian season two was released, following up on the fantastic Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian series that had accompanied season one. The special looked at a variety of aspects of the making of season two, including the live-action debuts of Bo-Katan Kryze and Ahsoka Tano, as [...]
We've long known that the next chapter of The Mandalorian story will be coming in December 2021, but it won't be the third season of The Mandalorian - instead, it will be the crossover series The Book of Boba Fett. That show just recently wrapped production after apparently shooting for around six months, and back [...]
In original plans for the sequel trilogy, the severed hand of Luke Skywalker would be the first thing we saw. And even though that idea was ultimately scrapped, it now seems possible that Luke's hand could re-shape how we view the sequel trilogy altogether. That's all coming from a recent issue of Greg Pak's great [...]
The most recent episode of The Bad Batch, "Cornered," introduced viewers to a very formidable and dangerous foe for the heroes, a bounty hunter hired to track down Omega who is able to hold her own in a fight against both Hunter and Wrecker. She's not directly mentioned by name in the episode (until the [...]
The Mandalorian has attracted incredible directing talent during its first two seasons, and it has proven to be an introduction to directing Star Wars for most of them. Outside of Dave Filoni, all of the directors have been newcomers to telling Star Wars stories at Lucasfilm when joining the show. But is it also possible [...]
Last summer, three new books connected to The Mandalorian were announced. The first, Phil Szostak's The Art of The Mandalorian (Season One), was released in December. It appears that the other two never will be. Today, DK Books provided us this update on Pablo Hidalgo's The Mandalorian: The Ultimate Visual Guide: https://twitter.com/dkpublishing/status/1369332166308417536 At the same [...]
In the wake of Lucasfilm firing Gina Carano from The Mandalorian, I wrote about the two options that lie before them with Cara Dune: either recast her, or write her out of the show. It turns out that there's still a lack of clarity over that, even among Hollywood "insiders." Recently The Hollywood Reporter ran [...]
Yesterday, the news broke that Lucasfilm had fired Gina Carano after yet another controversial social media post, saying that there are no plans for her to appear in The Mandalorian or any show moving forward. The most important thing was not what happens in the Star Wars universe but what happened in our universe, and [...]
Earlier today, it was revealed that Lucasfilm has fired Gina Carano, known for playing Cara Dune in The Mandalorian. The move comes in the wake of yet another controversial post on social media by Carano. A Lucasfilm spokesperson released a statement saying, "Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans [...]
The Mandalorian will soon become a multi-series initiative, it seems. As revealed at the Disney Investor Day by Lucasfilm President Kathy Kennedy, the showrunners of The Mandalorian, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, are currently developing two new spinoff series from the show: Rangers of the New Republic, and Ahsoka. Then later, The Book of Boba [...]
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