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What Jon Favreau asked himself before making Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu: "What could we do that we couldn’t do before?"
To accompany the new trailer, writer/director Jon Favreau has talked about his process in bringing the hit show to the big screen
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With the release of Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu just weeks away at this point, Lucasfilm has released one final trailer for the movie that will relaunch Star Wars as a movie franchise — and writer/director Jon Favreau has talked about the challenge in creating something that audiences are going to follow from Disney+ to the multiplex.
Speaking at CinemaCon, Favreau talked about the fact that The Mandalorian & Grogu doesn’t just have to be good — it has to be good enough to get audiences to get out of the house and go to the theater to check out, as opposed to waiting a few months for it to appear on Disney+ like the other Mandarian stories.
“So here’s the trick: You gotta deliver something that the audience enjoys, regardless of the medium. And in this case, what could we do that we couldn’t do before?” Favreau told Matt Belloni, as shared by Puck. “We have to treat it like the first season and the first episode of The Mandalorian, which is: Don’t assume anybody’s seen anything, but also make it clear to the people who’ve been with Star Wars for 50 years that this is something that is for them. We can’t forget that Star Wars hasn’t been in theaters for almost seven years. There are audience members who were not old enough to know Star Wars in the theater. We have to invite those fans in.”
Favreau also said that it’s a “completely different” style of filmmaking to make a Mandalorian movie compared with the TV show.
“Star Wars has always been about emotion, spectacle, humor, excitement, fun. If you think about it, when we first saw Star Wars, George Lucas dropped us right in the middle of a storyline, but I never felt like I was at a loss because I understood who the good guy was, who the bad guy was, and he pulled me into that experience. I think he was influenced a lot by the cliffhangers of his youth, and we really lean into that kind of pulpy, fun, space opera thing. So I think anybody who’s a fan of sci-fi will be able to jump in. You have to think of Star Wars not just as a genre in and of itself, but as a lens for other genres. And so by going to what influenced George, that gets us to a feeling of consistency and authenticity.”
Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu opens in theaters May 22. The final trailer for the movie is below.
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