Jon Favreau To Executive Produce and Write Live-Action Star Wars Series

Interesting. I’m looking forward to this, more so than to Rian’s trilogy and the GoT’s producers’ film series.

The amazing director of Iron Man & Iron Man 2 !!!

Oh…

wait…

ok… I won’t say more (moderator edit: to remove false claims, mistruths and further erroneous edits by MalaStrana - and not posts like ‘to avoid any confusion’ nor ‘…to be banned for “negativity”’)… this guy’s CV pretty much sums up what I think of this project and the interest I have about it.

If they want to hire a Marvel guy, Joe Johnston would still be perfect for the job. Just saying…

Collipso said:

Interesting. I’m looking forward to this, more so than to Rian’s trilogy and the GoT’s producers’ film series.

Rian Johnson 😃 😃
GoT screenwriters 😃 😕
Jon Favreau 😦 😦

(next step: Brett Ratner ?)

Don’t be ridiculous, unless I’ve missed something you’ve never been banned despite your constant “negativity” (unnecessary quotes aside).

I don’t even like superhero movies and I thought Iron Man was excellent until the end.

And he’s a hell of a fake MMA fighter.

Anyway, I’d like to see something run by the other Jon Favreau instead. It would make your head explode.

TV’s Frink said:
Anyway, I’d like to see something run by the other Jon Favreau instead. It would make your head explode.

Nah, it’s not like there was much room for more political correctness in the Star Wars Disney era anyway 😃

Iron Man, Swingers, and Chef are great. Can’t wait to see what he comes up with. I’m sure he will have his pick when it comes to casting.

Interesting that he hasn’t really done much TV, but either way he is talented.

TV’s Frink said:
And he’s a hell of a fake MMA fighter.

Always good to see others having fond memories of Friends as well 😄

DominicCobb said:

Interesting that he hasn’t really done much TV, but either way he is talented.

Not on the writing end of things, but he’s dabbled in tv a bit over the last few years.

He directed the pilot episodes of Revolution, The Orville and Young Sheldon and executive produced The Shannara Chronicles.

Fang Zei said:

DominicCobb said:

Interesting that he hasn’t really done much TV, but either way he is talented.

Not on the writing end of things, but he’s dabbled in tv a bit over the last few years.

He directed the pilot episodes of Revolution, The Orville and Young Sheldon and executive produced The Shannara Chronicles.

I’m aware he has TV credits, as far as a I know though he’s never been a showrunner, which is presumably what he’s doing here.

Meh. I don’t love or hate Favreau. I like the idea of a live action series in general, but I’m going to need some more specifics before I get excited. I will say, and I’m not blaming any of these directors themselves, that I’m more than a little dismayed by the way that Disney’s ostensible commitment to diversity doesn’t seem to extend beyond actors. By my count, Favreau is the twelfth white male to head one of these projects since the Disney buyout (fourteenth if you count JJ and Rian twice). Someone over there has to understand how this looks.

joefavs said:

Meh. I don’t love or hate Favreau. I like the idea of a live action series in general, but I’m going to need some more specifics before I get excited. I will say, and I’m not blaming any of these directors themselves, that I’m more than a little dismayed by the way that Disney’s ostensible commitment to diversity doesn’t seem to extend beyond actors. By my count, Favreau is the twelfth white male to head one of these projects since the Disney buyout (fourteenth if you count JJ and Rian twice). Someone over there has to understand how this looks.

Yeah, it’s looking not great. Admittedly, it looks better when you note that only 4 have actually completed their films, and when you realize that in terms of directors, there’s only two future ones on the docket and they’re both returning players. The silver lining is that Favreau and Weiss/Benioff are only writer/producers, which means that even those projects (and Rian’s other films) still have the chance to hire more diverse creatives. Let’s hope they do.

As for the show itself, it’s about time this happened, considering all those years Lucas hyped up live action SW TV. As you said, it’s hard to get too excited though, not knowing what it’s about. What a strange time we live in where there a three new Star Wars series in the pipeline, two film series and one TV series, and we know nothing about their subject matter beyond “a galaxy far, far away.” Rian’s is almost certainly the one I’m most interested in as a much prefer film to TV, and he’s easily the most talented of those four (and he’s already proven he can handle SW very well).

So this is apparently set seven years after ROTJ with all new characters and etc.

DominicCobb said:

So this is apparently set seven years after ROTJ with all new characters and etc.

Honestly surprised that they didn’t go the easy route with between EP III and IV.

I’m happy with it. We need more stuff between ROTJ and TFA.

ChainsawAsh said:

I’m happy with it. We need more stuff between ROTJ and TFA.

I’m definitely happy too. I want to see the early days of the Resistance and maybe some Snoke stuff.

I’ve seen other reports saying it is set 7 years before RotJ and another saying it’s set 7 years after the battle of Yavin.

rodneyfaile said:

I’ve seen other reports saying it is set 7 years before RotJ and another saying it’s set 7 years after the battle of Yavin.

RotJ is 4 years ABY, so why not just say it’s 3 years after RotJ?

He probably meant to say it’s 7 years after the battle of Endor.