I think both Captain Marvel and especially The Irishman has proved that de-aging technology has reached a point where even a streaming series could convincingly de-age Mark Hamill enough to at least give him a short appearance in The Mandalorian. But…if Giancarlo Esposito’s statement about the show being 4 seasons long turns out to be correct then I don’t think anything like this is likely to happen in this season.

Not too sure how I feel about the possibility of Headland’s new show covering Ahsoka, Ezra, etc. I don’t really know anything about her prior work, so I’ll reserve judgment until we get more proper info on what her show is really about. But if we do get some kind of live-action sequel to Rebels then I definitely think it should be done by Filoni, and not anyone else. And at this point I think he has more than proven that he’s capable of doing his own live-action series. It wouldn’t surprise me if having Filoni on The Mandalorian was partially treated as a bit of a test by the higher-ups at Lucasfilm/Disney to see how he would handle the “upgrade” live action.