Lucasfilm’s co-president Dave Filoni says that the upcoming The Mandalorian and Grogu movie launches a completely different era of Star Wars on the big screen. The TV series turned into a movie is the first Star Wars film to hit theatres since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. In Empire Online‘s recent coverage, new Lucasfilm co-president Dave Filoni talks abut the film. Filoni also confirms we was a co-writer on the film alongside director Jon Favreau and that he took on second unit directing himself.
As per Empire, and we are sure there will be much more once this months magazine hits shelfs.
‘It is, says Lucasfilm co-CEO Dave Filoni, a different prospect to the last time the saga made a culture-shaking big-screen comeback. “Episode VII was a completely different entity,” explains Filoni, who also co-wrote The Mandalorian And Grogu, and directed second-unit on the film. “I had dreams of Episode VII since I came out of Return Of The Jedi. You were like, ‘After VI comes VII! Where’s VII?’ We’re in a completely different era of Star Wars now.” The Mandalorian And Grogu doesn’t carry the burden of introducing a new trilogy, or establishing a group of unknown heroes. Instead it is, Filoni says, “a big celebration” of its title pair.’
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Meanwhile, star Pedro Pascal opened up a little about what to expect for fans of the TV series.
“It only felt like the ending of a particular chapter,” Pedro Pascal tells Empire. The same finale also saw Mando agree to take on missions solely for the New Republic at Adelphi Base. “They open up the opportunity for him to continue his best work as a bounty hunter, but just working for the good guys,” says Pascal. “Combining skill and morality. Whereas when we meet him first, it’s simply skill, and beskar, and [the Mandalorian] Creed. Through his relationship to Grogu, there is an expansion of his heart and a disarming of his armour, so to speak, that leads him to fight for what he knows is right.”
“What can’t you do now?” says Filoni, noting that spectacle only goes so far. “It’s a question of, ‘Is the audience going to believe it? Are they going to feel it?’ That comes through the characters. If the characters are connecting, then the adventure plays, the action plays, the tension plays.”
What say you, will The Mandalorian and Grogu launch a new era for Star Wars on the big screen? Or, is this just a cynical move to have a TV series made into a movie because Kennedy could not get any other movies over the line in time? Let us know below.
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