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MAKING THE MANDALORIAN

“[TELLING STORIES] IS as
exciting to a 50-year-
old fan as it is to a
10-year-old, when
you do it right.”
Dave Filoni

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to be some guiding light for the in movies was probably formed in a the films that influenced Lucas. So,

use of comedy in Star Wars, and he big way from seeing George Lucas’ looking at films by Akira Kurosawa,

relied on Filoni to help him craft original film,” he says. “I learned John Ford, Sergio Leone—through
those guidelines. “Dave was very about cinema through the lens of A the eyes of that generation—and
clear about it. There are certain New Hope. While watching it, my then trying to channel that as best
types of humor that can be used in father would explain to me how we could. Now of course, we were
Star Wars and there are certain types things were inspired by something always going to put our spin on it,

that can’t be,” Favreau explains. “If you would see in a samurai movie because filmmakers, cast, and writers
we’re making fun of Star Wars, we’re or a western or a World War II fi lm. are always going to put their spin on

stepping outside of it.” That first movie was my inroad.” a project. However, we always made
As they developed the series, sure we adhered to something that
Something Old and Favreau and Filoni agreed they had structure and respect for what
Something New would embark on The Mandalorian came before.”
The tone and craft of the long- with an eye on staying true to the One of the things that fascinates
running saga is something that things that made George Lucas’ Star Favreau so much about working
is baked into Favreau’s DNA as a Wars fi lms great. “We really tried not on The Mandalorian is this shifting
storyteller and as a fi lmmaker, and to make it a reflection of what we of the generational lens through

it was his love of Star Wars that interpreted Star Wars to be,” Favreau which Star Wars is viewed, and how
grabbed his heart and held onto it at explains, “but instead went back George Lucas reacted to the movies

a very young age. “My whole taste to the source code and looked at he grew up with—the films of the

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