Legends Star Wars TV series coming from Disney Streaming Service

[Pennywise]

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/star-wars-tv-series-disney-streaming-service-1202611408/

It's Live Action!!!

 

[StarLord]

Jon Favreau to Executive Produce, Write Live-Action 'Star Wars' Series

 

[Grootster]

Now that's good news!

 

[Pennywise]

Jon Favreau to Executive Produce, Write Live-Action 'Star Wars' Series

This is going to be awesome! t:

 

[vantheman77]

Probably Star Wars: Resistance.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

https://**************.net/2018/08/...ut-mandalorians-after-the-fall-of-the-empire/

 

[Gabe99]

The Mandalorian

THR OCTOBER 03, 2018:
'Star Wars': Jon Favreau's TV Series Details Revealed

Disney's forthcoming streaming service won't launch until late 2019 but details surrounding one of its most highly anticipated TV series have emerged.

Jon Favreau, who is set to write and exec produce an original, live-action scripted Star Wars TV series, revealed that his new show will be called The Mandalorian.

"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 from the authority of the New Republic," Favreau shared in an post on his verified Instagram account.

Disney is developing multiple live-action Star Wars TV series for its upcoming streaming service, which is designed to rival Netflix. The platform will be the exclusive home for Marvel feature films and original series as well as Pixar and other Lucasfilm properties. So far, only Favreau's involvement in one of the Star Wars TV series has been revealed. Wednesday's announcement offers a closer look at just where the new Star Wars TV series fits in with the franchise.

For his part, Favreau is no stranger to the Star Wars universe. The actor-director played roles in Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series and in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

/film:
The Live-Action ‘Star Wars’ TV Show May Cast ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Narcos’ Star Pedro Pascal

 

[Gabe99]

 

[Broseph44]

Edit

 

[Breogan]

The Mandalorian

THR OCTOBER 03, 2018:
'Star Wars': Jon Favreau's TV Series Details Revealed

/film:
The Live-Action ‘Star Wars’ TV Show May Cast ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Narcos’ Star Pedro Pascal

Love it!

 

[titansupes]

All sounds good to me.

 

[Breogan]

Jon Favreau just shared the name of the Live Action Television Series and it is The Mandalorian!
On instagram -

“After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe,” Favreau said in his post. “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.”

#themandalorian hashtag on Instagram • Photos and Videos

Also rumored: Pedro Pascal Eyed to Lead Jon Favreau’s Live-Action Star Wars Series -
RUMOR: Pedro Pascal Eyed to Lead Jon Favreau’s Live-Action Star Wars Series

Hope he takes the role, loved him as Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones, and in Narcos, the guy can act, also saw him as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing.
He'll make a great Lone Gunfighter type.

Bit of a latino Charles Bronson

With all this!
How does this TV series not have it's own forum yet?

 

[Fincher]

Mandalorian(s) sounds good to me. Pedro Pascal could be interesting, too.

 

[Sithborg]

sigh

 

[Breogan]

sigh

Problem?

 

[Boom]

Didn't even know about the Pedro Pascal rumor.

Pascal as a Mandalorian bounty hunter? I want it.

 

[Gabe99]

SyFy Jan 17, 2014:
The The Boba Fett rumor that might rewrite Star Wars rumor that might rewrite Star Wars

So there's been a lot of talk about Boba's future in the Star Wars universe -- how he'll fit into the next movies, whether he's getting a spinoff. But the latest rumor? Wow.

So, in terms of non-major characters in the original trilogy, it's probably safe to say that Boba is one of the favorites, if not THE favorite. H's got a cool outfit and a sweet ride, and he kills for pay. All in all, he's a guilty-pleasure fantasy whether you want to be him or be with him (or a bit of both).

Abrams and company definitely aren't going to mess with that, right? He's just gonna be exactly the same guy, with the same backstory, right? Right?

Well, it's like this -- apparently Lawrence Kasdan is the man who's deciding on the Boba, and the not-so hush-hush is that Kasdan hates the prequels. A lot. Word on the street is that the Boba we thought we knew isn't actually the son of Jango "Look at all my clones, ma" Fett, but, rather, is a stranger who killed and took Boba's armor.

Basically, Kasdan wants to set up a sort of Man-With-No-Name western-style story. That way, you re-establish the way things used to be pre-prequel, with Boba's identity going back into the shadows and a world of potential for a new character.

There's good and bad. Hard to take a stance, really. Yes, those prequels are near-universally loathed. But is more retconning the answer?

How does this rumor sit with you? Are you ready to meet a whole new Boba Fett?

(via Latino Review)

Screen Rant OCT 04, 2018:
Star Wars Theory: The Mandalorian Already Exists In Canon - And Has A Fett Connection

Jon Favreau has released the first synopsis for his Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian, and it just might introduce the man who stole Boba Fett's armor. Cobb Vanth has already been introduced into the Star Wars canon in Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy, and it sounds a lot like he's about to star in his own show.

Favreau's Star Wars TV series has been the subject of much speculation over the last few months. Rumors pointed to the Mandalorians being at the center of the story, while a handful of set photos hinted at a desert location reminiscent of Tatooine. But solid facts were few and far between; at least until Favreau took to social media to reveal the show's title, and to present a brief synopsis of The Mandalorian.

According to Favreau, The Mandalorian is set sometime after the fall of the Empire and before the rise of the First Order. The series stars a lone gunfighter on the outer reaches of the galaxy, far beyond the influence of the New Republic. Surprisingly, that masked man may well have already made his appearance in the Star Wars canon.

Until now, the time between the Original Trilogy and the Sequels has been relatively unexplored. As recently as September 2017, there were reports that the Lucasfilm Story Group was blocking stories set after the Battle of Jakku. Only a handful of novels really discussed that time-period, most notably Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy, which chronicled the events leading to the Battle of Jakku, and essentially laid the foundations for any other stories set after Return of the Jedi. That's begun to change, of course, with both Favreau's series and Star Wars: Resistance set in the time between the trilogies. It's safe to assume that both shows will build on the ideas Wendig's novels first brought into play.

And here's the interesting thing; the Aftermath trilogy really does feature a "lone gunfighter" who wears Mandalorian armor, and he's fighting against injustice on the fringes of the galaxy. He's on Tatooine, and - as Luke himself observed in A New Hope - if there's a bright center to the universe, Tatooine is the world farthest from it. The first two books in the trilogy avoided revealing too much about the Mandalorian, but the third revealed his history; the man's name was Cobb Vanth, and he was a slave who was freed after Jabba the Hutt's death. Stumbling across a set of Mandalorian armor, Vanth and Jabba's old beastmaster, Malakili, fought to prevent new criminal gangs muscling in on Jabba's turf and enslaving Tatooine once again.

Although it was never explicitly stated, the Aftermath trilogy strongly implied that Cobb Vanth had stumbled upon Boba Fett's armor. It seems the Sarlacc was badly injured during the events of Return of the Jedi, with the explosion of Jabba's Sail Barge leaving the creature partially exposed. Some stoma-tubes were split open, and industrious Jawas raided them for treasures. The novel hinted that the Jawas took the Mandalorian armor, and that Vanth purchased it from them. Boba Fett's fate, however, was never revealed; according to Jabba, it took years to be digested inside the Sarlacc, so he may well have still been alive, albeit injured.

All this dovetails perfectly with Favreau's description. Cobb Vanth was active as a lawman in the time between the trilogies; he's a solitary gunslinger, wearing the right suit of armor; and he's active on Tatooine, when photos have hinted at a desert setting for The Mandalorian. In addition, no sooner had the first synopsis been published than Jason Ward appeared on the SlashFilm podcast to report rumors that the character could be Cobb Vanth. Cobb's story in the Aftermath trilogy was a strange one, irrelevant to the main plot and relegated to a series of "interludes". It now looks as though those interludes were set up for ideas Lucasfilm intended to explore further down the line - and Cobb Vanth's story is the first to be developed, in his case into a TV series.

Curiously enough, the old Expanded Universe does have precedent for someone impersonating Boba Fett. Jodo Kast was a member of Alliance SpecOps who became a bounty hunter, and donned Mandalorian armor. After Fett's death in the Sarlacc pit, Kast re-painted his armor to look like Fett's in order to charge a higher fee. Kast dreamed of taking Fett's role as the best mercenary and bounty-hunter in the galaxy. Unfortunately, his crimes caught up with him. In the Expanded Universe, Boba Fett survived the Sarlacc, and upon recovered his strength and learning someone had stolen his identity, he was incensed that someone was impersonating him, so he set a deadly trap for Jodo Kast. Suffice to say Kast learned the hard way that he was not Boba Fett's equal - and he didn't survive to make the most of that lesson.

Of course, the Expanded Universe is no longer considered canon, and so we can't say for sure that Fett survived the Sarlacc in the new Star Wars. But it's certainly possible; after all, Jabba suggested it takes a millennia for someone's body to be digested inside the Sarlacc, and Boba would only have been in there for a short time. Assuming he did indeed survive, Boba would have presumably been badly wounded, malnourished, and perhaps even rendered comatose. The Jawas could have stripped his body of his armor, and left him for dead. If he recovered, it's pretty certain he'd want to get his armor back. So perhaps Boba Fett himself is part of this story.

Whether Boba Fett is involved in The Mandalorian or not, though, Wendig's Aftermath trilogy clues us in on what to expect from the series. This will be a tightly-focused character piece, centered around Cobb Vanth. He appointed himself as sheriff of the new Freetown on Tatooine and helped drive back criminal empires who seek to take over Jabba's old territory. If Vanth's allies from the novel also appear, that might mean a return of the crying rancor trainer/beastmaster Malakili from The Return of the Jedi. The last novel even revealed that Malakili was looking after a baby Huttling, so it's possible to assume we can expect to see that creature too

It would make sense for the show's rogues' gallery to be drawn from the Aftermath novels as well, at least initially. That means we can expect to see the Red Key Raiders, a criminal cartel that emerged on the scene shortly after the Battle of Endor. They seem to have actually started out their operations on Tatooine, pretending to be a mining cartel but secretly running a range of criminal enterprises. One of their main leaders was a Weequay thug named Lorgan Movellan, who became obsessed with Cobb Vanth. The last encounter between the two in Aftermath: Empire's End didn't go well for Lorgan; not only was he beaten by the Mandalorian warrior, Cobb chose to carve a message into Lorgan's face with his blade, presumably a warning to all the raiders to stay away.

But the Red Key Raiders may not be the only ones to be interested in Tatooine. The books have already established that the Raiders forged an alliance with the vast, powerful criminal empire known as Black Sun. This organization predates the Empire, and was dangerous enough to be considered a threat by even Darth Maul back before the Galactic Civil War. No doubt Black Sun used the chaos of the Empire's fall to build its influence yet again, and it would set its sights on prizes that were out of reach of New Republic laws - including Tatooine.

 

[James.B]

The Mandalorian First Image, Directors Revealed | StarWars.com

Production on the first Star Wars live-action streaming series has begun! 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 from the authority of the New Republic. The series will be written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated producer and actor Jon Favreau, as previously announced, with Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels) directing the first episode. Additional episodic directors include Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates), and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok). It will be executive produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. Karen Gilchrist will serve as co-executive producer. Stay tuned to StarWars.com for updates.

 

[Sithborg]

Problem?

I really don't want Traviss to re-infect the Mandos.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I really don't want Traviss to re-infect the Mandos.

Why did this come up?

 

[Aximili86]

I must be the only person alive who doesn't give two ****s about Mandalorians.

The pic looks a little "grimdarkz brah" somehow too. But whatever, Favreau, Star Wars live-action show, I'm in.

 

[HammerDown]

Taika Waititi on board.

 

[MurkeNyou]

While I normally like looking at Youtube vid from Star Wars fans to hear their reactions, as soon as they start yammering about Kathleen Kennedy and SJW and women, nope... I don't know what is up with these weenies being so vocal of late, but there is a reason general fans push these chumps off into the fringe. If you have an issue with women, and Star Wars, you ain't much of a Star Wars fan, and personally I don't even want to debate such a stupid point of view, because it gives it validity. It's like the kids that called their friends gay decades ago for liking Storm, Rogue, batgirl, or female characters in general. Then guess who stumbles out of the closet years later, it wasn't the guys liking female superheroes.

 

[rogue trooper]

The Mandalorian First Image, Directors Revealed | StarWars.com

My attention a Star Wars tv series now has!

 

[MurkeNyou]

Shouldn't we inquire about this getting it's own slot in the Star Wars board, Admins & Mods?