We knew this for some time before this shocking announcement The Mandalorian Will jetpack-jump from streaming TV to the silver screen The Mandalorian and Grogu Planning for a fourth season of the show was already well underway. But there’s always been an element of the understanding that, once the movie was prioritized, it seemed as if whatever Season 4 of the show would be would end up cannibalizing the pair’s new cinematic possibilities. Now, this cannot happen.
Speaking in the latest issue of Empire Magazine (via Star Wars News Net), The Mandalorian and Grogu Director Jon Favreau briefly discusses the change The Mandalorian before acknowledging that scripts for the show’s planned fourth season still existed, albeit in a movie format.
Favreau said, “We were planning on making a fourth season. I actually wrote all that.” “I still have season 4 sitting on my desk.” According to the director, The Mandalorian and GroguThe project became its own thing due to the pivot to the movie, which was written for the movie structure rather than the TV season arc.
Favreau added, “It’s structured around a film structure, as opposed to a serialized weekly television show.” “So there’s a big impact on the whole thing.”
However, just because the script for the planned season 4 still exists doesn’t mean there will be a fourth season The Mandalorian It may still happen. Favreau was not clear whether The Mandalorian and GroguThe storyline takes ideas and elements from those Season 4 scripts and reconfigures them to make sense in a movie format, or if the movie is its own completely separate story, one is conceived after the Season 4 script is completed.
And even if it was the latter, we don’t yet know if anything will happen The Mandalorian and Grogu Those scripts, presented as they are, are currently inactive, with significant rewrites required if the characters are to return to streaming TV. Whatever plans Lucasfilm has for Din Djarin and his little green ward remains up in the air.
Needed The Mandalorian and Grogu be successful when it hits the box office next year, as the studio will no doubt hope to return for the first time star wars There will be theatrical releases from 2019 onwards, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a theatrical sequel, and there will be star wars‘The domestic streaming hero has now completely become a movie hero (a somewhat disappointing but fitting arc). The MandalorianThe evolution of storytelling since its beginning). Of course, there are also plans for an eventual ‘Mandoverse’ movie from Dave Filoni that will be the climax of the Thrawn storyline he’s been building in both The Mandalorian And AshokaSo there’s at least one more cinematic adventure on the horizon.
But if they’re still standing after all this, could we see a comeback The Mandalorian As a TV show? Who can say. Always on the move, the future is certain Other The little green force user once put it on.
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