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MAKING THE MANDALORIAN

JON FAVREAU & DAVE FILONI

With a second season already in production,
Star Wars Insider talks to Jon Favreau and
Dave Filoni on working together to bring
The Mandalorian to fans around the world.

W O R D S : B R YA N Y O U N G

ave Filoni is a name that has been long familiar to Star
D Wars fans. He was selected by George Lucas to help build

Lucasfilm’s animation department that gave us Star Wars:
The Clone Wars (2008-2014, 2020), Star Wars Rebels
(2014-2018), and—most recently—Star Wars Resistance
(2019-2020). While cloistered up at Skywalker Ranch in
the early days of working on The Clone Wars, Filoni met Jon Favreau.
Although their paths diverged, with Favreau going on to make some of the
most popular films of the last decade, Filoni had hope his creative peer would

return to Star Wars. At least, that’s what he revealed to Star Wars Insider when
the pair of them sat down to talk about the epic new Star Wars TV show The
Mandalorian, which began streaming on Disney+ on November 12, 2019.
“The first time I ever saw Iron Man,” Filoni recalls, “I thought it had

that same great feeling as Star Wars, because to me it combined a lot of fun
moments, a lot of adventure, action, and comedy, with an incredible sense of,
‘I care about this and it could still get dramatic.’ And that didn’t come at the
expense of the meaningful nature of the characters or their relationships. I’ve
always felt that Jon’s tone would be really, really good for Star Wars.”
Favreau got his start in the movie business by way of comedy, most notably
with the indie-hit Swingers (1996), which he wrote, produced, and starred in.
The creator of The Mandalorian knew before he came aboard that there had

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