in an explosion of Technicolor classics, obscure childhood favorites and blockbusting properties.
Every other Disney Plus original to debut, including reality shows like “Marvel’s Hero Project” and the aggressively meta comedy “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” run on optimism, selling the Disney brand as unfailingly aspirational. In introducing a “” series along with it all, it would have been completely understandable if it were a romp that leaned more into a popcorn-ready “Return of the Jedi” vibe than the sinister politicking of “The Empire Strikes Back.
Jon Favreau’s new swing at the “Star Wars” universe picks up sometime after the fall of the First Galactic Empire in “Return of the Jedi” and before the events of “The Force Awakens,” at which point the hot new fascist power of the First Order has already taken back over. With its blessedly brisk 40-minute runtime, the glimpse the “The Mandalorian” pilot gives us of this heretofore unknown in-between period is slight, but revealing.
One point in the show’s favor is that it homes in on a single story, the better to keep it grounded. It follows a seemingly tireless bounty hunter from the planet Mandalore , who spends his days scraping together low-paying assignments that have him ricocheting around the galaxy to scoop up bail-jumpers and preserve them in carbonite before they can wriggle away again.
That resolute lack of emoting makes the Mandalorian both a bold choice as an anchoring character and a frustrating one, especially since he’s played by the endlessly charismatic actor
Yes, He can. I bet he'd do a wonderful job.
Get in there Favreau
This is so sad 'cause JF & DFiloni are the right guys to continue Star Wars stories in a right way. Think it better, Jon.
No1 wants that job
I don´t think he can handle any story in any scale.
He can do a far better job than RealRonHoward did
What a legend
Crazy because iron man went so well
carolineframke Rough westerns just what I like
carolineframke The pilot felt more like the first 36 min of a movie than it did an episode of a series.
carolineframke Thought it was really done well. Leave it to Jon_Favreau - he’s the man. disney knows this. And yeah I’ll say it, I even love Cowboys & Aliens. Jon is still batting 1,000 in my book
carolineframke Pilot was great. Great start to what’s primed to be a excellent series.
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