Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Already In Pre-Production

The first season of The Mandalorian has yet to premiere on Disney+ but it looks like Lucasfilm and Disney are already confident about how the new series will turn out. Jon Favreau has just confirmed that The Mandalorian Season 2 is already in development and could begin production soon.

Favreau recently spoke to Collider where he admitted that he has started writing the second season of The Mandalorian.

"I keep getting pulled deeper into the orbit of Disney, but fortunately the stuff that Disney's working on is the stuff that I love. I wanted to do a Star Wars TV show like The Mandalorian and pitched it to them and they were very open to it. I even wrote four episodes before I even was hired to do it because I was excited as a fan to see what these stories might be and see if they were interested in doing what I was interested in, which they were. And I was actually writing Season 2 this morning before I came here," he shared.

If you think it's all going a little too fast, Favreau also confessed that the second season is currently in pre-production. However, the Lion King director explained that it has a lot to do with the way the show is being filmed.

"In The Mandalorian, because we're doing live-action production, we're using the Epic game engine and using that to do real-time in-camera visual effects. So if you visited the set for The Mandalorian you would've seen a completely video-wall wrapped stage and we were in there filming the characters in the foreground, and oftentimes either blue screen or full digital versions of set extensions in the background with Parallax, because the positional data of the camera was informing the backgrounds, so it was like a translight that had perspective. So that allowed us to have environments—as long as we could build them digitally and put enough work into planning it, we could have the game engine be used for creating effects in a timeframe that allows us to get a TV season done," Favreau explained.

This is the same process used for The Lion King and it could be pretty effective in getting things done. With that in mind, it's good to know that The Mandalorian is getting a second season even before the first one has aired.

The Mandalorian will premiere on Disney+ on November 12.

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