Official confirmation is yet to land, and with yesterday’s episode of The Star Wars Show light on news and with no episode next week, any confirmation of this could be a way off, but The Hollywood Reporter are claiming that Fast and Furious 6 actress Gina Carano is to be a part of Jon Favreau’s Disney+ series The Mandalorian.
If true, she would be joining Pedro Pascal – similarly not yet confirmed by Lucasfilm, but fingers crossed – on the show which is filming right now with a launch on Disney+ sometime in the back half of 2019.
Gina Carano has joined Pedro Pascal in the live-action Star Warsseries The Mandalorian.
The series will debut on Disney’s streaming service Disney+, which is set to bow next year.
Jon Favreau wrote the series and is executive producing along with Kathleen Kennedy, Colin Wilson and Dave Filoni. Filoni will also direct episodes, along with Taika Waititi, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rick Famuyiwa and Deborah Chow.
Character details are buried deep in the desert wastes of Tatooine, but the company’s synopsis is thus: “After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.”