The Emmy-nominated Star Wars sensation returns with a new galaxy of adventure and TV’s biggest 16-inch star.
The street art depicted his show’s cherubic, wide-eyed, Force-sensitive character peering solemnly from under a bridge.
“The show wasn’t there!”
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And it was a TV show!
So what didThe Mandaloriando right, that otherStar Warstitles did not?
Favreau believes the lower expectations of television versus movies helped give his show an edge.
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We’ve benefited from the smallness of our world."
I’m like a lawyer talking to a judge; I am to him as he was to George.
I won’t do anything without Dave’s approval.
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And to his credit, he understands thatStars Warsneeds to be fun and ever-evolving."
“There aren’t dimes inStar Wars,” Filoni says.
“So how do you get that across?
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Or should it be avoided altogether?”
Expect the Outer Rim to get a lot more crowded in season 2.
“The new season is about introducing a larger story in the world,” says Favreau.
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And while the first season’s episodes very strictly focused on Mando, season 2 adds new storytelling angles.
“As we introduce other characters, there are opportunities to follow different storylines,” Favreau says.
“On a moment-to-moment basis, he’s discovering that question: ‘What do you want?'”
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theGame of Thronesveteran says.
“That isn’t clear to him, or to me.”
“It’s an iconic battle.
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I want to disarm him mentally as well.
Maybe there’s an opportunity to get him to fight some battles for me.
You’ll get to see him be somewhat diplomatic and more of a manipulator.”
And as for that Darksaber, in the new episodes Gideon demonstrates he’s quite adept at wielding it.
The fans want to know things are a calculated, careful decision.
Then if you tell a good story, most of the time they go with it."
“But in season 2, he was the biggest thing on the set.
There was a total shift around him.
Everybody liked him before, but he wasn’t quite the celebrity that he was in season 2.
This time, he was quite a big deal.”
Even after 40 years, some things have not changed.
“I really wanted to see his eyes, which really helped,” she says.
“All of these galaxies and planets and ships and action sequences and creatures and stuff.
A little goes a long way.”
Their filming fortuitously wrapped just four days before the industrywide COVID-19 shutdown in March.
But the team then had to figure out its labor-intensive postproduction process in the pandemic era.
The biggest challenge was pulling off Ludwig Goransson’s orchestral score.
The breakout success of season 1 has fandom anticipation for the new episodes running extremely high.
Yet nobody sounds worried.
