The Mandalorian season two is still on schedule for its October 2020 release date, despite the closure of many television and film productions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Series creator and head writer Jon Favreau confirmed the welcome news for eager fans during a virtual panel for the ATX Television Festival.
‘We were lucky enough to have finished photography before the lock down,’ he said of the production timeline, according to Collider.
Timeline: The Mandamorian season two is still on schedule for its October 2020 release date on Disney+, despite the closure of many productions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
‘Thanks to how technology-forward Lucasfilm and ILM are, we have been able to do all of our visual effects and editing and post production remotely through systems that had been set up by those companies for us,’ Favreau, who also serves as executive producer and showrunner, added.
The acclaimed Iron Man director also gave a glimpse into what fans can expect in the much-anticipated season two.
‘We are building what people loved about the first season,’ he said of the upcoming season that will debut on Disney+.
‘It doesn’t feel like the next season, it feels like we are continuing.’
Good timing: ‘We were lucky enough to have finished photography before the lock down,’ he said of the production timeline,’ Creator Jon Favreau said
Tasty glimpse: Favreau revealed season two ‘doesn’t feel like the next season, it feels like we are continuing’
Favreau continued: ‘As we explore partnering with new filmmakers and having new characters and going deeper with the characters we already have, it’s really been very fun and fulfilling and I hope people are having as much fun seeing it as we are having making it.’
Some of the famous names being lined-up to join the much-anticipated second season include Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson, Michael Biehn, Temuera Morrison and Katee Sackhoff.
The Mandalorian, which is the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise, is set five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and 25 years prior to The Force Awakens.
It follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter named Din Djarin, played by Pedro Pascal, and his exploits beyond the reaches of the New Republic. The cast also features Carl Weathers as Greef Karga and Werner Herzog as The Client, with Nick Nolte and Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi lending their voices to Kuiil and IG-11.
Bonafide hit: The western-inspired sci-fi epic sStar Wars spin-off earned monstrous popularity with its eight-episode first season
The western-inspired sci-fi epic series earned monstrous popularity last year thanks in part to the cute little alien called The Child, or ‘Baby Yoda’ as he’s come to be known across social media channels.
During he ATX Television Festival, Bryce Dallas Howard, who directed episode four titled Sanctuary, revealed her two young children inspired that soup sipping Baby Yoda moment.
The Jurassic World star, 39, said her kids, Theodore and Beatrice, were always asking about Baby Yoda during filming of the first season.
‘My kids were on set pretty much every day. Even before we came to set, when it was the storyboards for the episode,’ she explained.
Fun factoid: Bryce Dallas Howard, who directed episode four titled Sanctuary, revealed her two young children inspired that soup sipping Baby Yoda moment
‘My [then six-year-old] daughter would come into the editing room and whenever Baby [Yoda] wasn’t on screen, she would lean over to me and be like, where’s Baby? Where’s Baby? Where’s Baby?’
Favreau picked up the her children’s curiosity and said, ‘Oh yeah — if the kid is wondering where Baby is, then we need to know where Baby is at all times.’
Howard continued, ‘There was something with the kids where Baby was very real and Baby was in danger and they needed to see where Baby was at all times… They needed to know Baby was safe, and from that a variety of moments came up that were constructed just because we wanted everyone to know Baby was safe.’
The fate of Baby Yoda, as well as his Mandalorian keeper, will be told in the second season.
The anticipation: The fate of Baby Yoda, as well as his Mandalorian keeper, will be told in the second season when it premieres on Disney+ in October