The Mandalorian will go past Season 4 says Jon Favreau, as long as the fans are ‘still digging it’. Season 3 of The Mandalorian is currently airing on Disney+. However we already know Season 4 is greenlit with creator Favreau already having written what happens next. Speaking with Film Stories recently though, Favreau says that Season 4 won’t be the end, however it will depend on whether the fans are still enjoying what they see.
“Beyond the series? Like beyond season four? Yeah… Well, I hope so! I hope so. I really love the dynamic of these two characters that in theory don’t age. I think that there’s a lot of potential energy in that relationship, especially as the baby is no longer a baby, and starts to grow – but it happens so slowly that we could really play this out, hopefully for a while. But it all depends on the audience if they like what we’re doing. As long as they’re digging it, we’re digging making it and it’s a fun gig that I don’t want to walk away from any time soon.”
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There are dangers to this approach. If you don’t have an end point in mind, what happens when you run out of interesting stories. What happens if Grogu is less popular wen he grows a little. Also without building to a climax a show can feel lacking. That’s fine in an episodic show that tells a new story every week. However Mando does not work like that and so far the story is all connected and building, somewhere.
If Favreau wants to tell stories for years with these two (Grogu and Dinn), then for me they need to reboot and time skip eventually. Build to a climax that feels satisfying, skip 10 years ahead and then explore a new story about what happens next. But them, Favreau is a successful writer and director and, well, I’m not, so maybe don’t listen to me.
As long as the fans are ‘still digging it’, The Mandalorian will go past Season 4 says creator Jon Favreau. What do you think? Should there be an end point before we get an episode where Dinn jumps an alien shark on an alien jetski? Thoughts below as always.
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