'The Mandalorian' Creator Jon Favreau Gives Season 2 Update | THR News - video Dailymotion

The creator behind the 'Star Wars' show notes postproduction is on schedule for an October launch on Disney+.

Transcript

00:00Great news Star Wars fans, while the coronavirus pandemic shut down film and TV productions around

00:10the world, The Mandalorian remains on track to debut season 2 in October on Disney+.

00:15Executive producer Jon Favreau said during a virtual panel for the ATX Television Festival,

00:20we were lucky enough to have finished photography before the lockdown.

00:23Thanks to how technology forward Lucasfilm and ILM are, we have been able to do all of

00:27our visual effects and editing and post-production remotely through systems that had been set up for us by those companies.

00:32The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal as a mysterious bounty hunter inhabiting the Star Wars galaxy.

00:41Favreau noted that due to the rigors of the TV schedule, season 2 feels like a continuation of season 1 rather than a new thing.

00:47He said,

00:57Disney Plus does not release viewership data, but the first season of The Mandalorian made a major splash on the pop culture landscape.

01:04The Child, aka Baby Yoda, became a surprise breakout character, and Disney's Bob Iger has noted the show will go beyond season 2

01:11and could even spin off characters into their own series.

01:14For more on this story, edit THR.com.

01:16For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.