The Associated Press take a look at the forthcoming The Mandalorian and Grogu, chatting with director Jon Favreau about the first Star Wars film in well over half a decade and his hopes to inspire youngsters to enter and explore the galaxy far, far away.
“Even though in our hearts we are Star Wars fans, we make it for Star Wars fans, and we know that there’s a certain set of expectations around what Star Wars should be that we collectively hold, there is the responsibility to invite a whole new generation of people into Star Wars. That means that if a Star Wars fan brings somebody who’s not, they’ve got to have as good of a time as the fans do.”
“I want to make the next generation feel the way about Star Wars that I did when I saw it for the first time.”
“George has always understood that you have to fit into the mythic structure. There are certain story types that we connect with and understand and even if we might not know the particulars of the story he’s telling, we could drop right in and understand and know who to cheer for.”
Favreau also discusses Din Djarin, the titular Mandalorian who is somewhat changed from the first time we met him back in season one of The Mandalorian in 2019.
“He made it clear that he was only going to work for the good guys now. We switched the Western archetype from the bounty hunter to the guy who’s hunting down the bad guys in the wanted posters on the post office wall for the sheriff. (H)e’s a bit different from when we first met him, but he’s still, at his heart, a gunfighter and a warrior,
