

The series' title was announced in October 2018, with filming starting at Manhattan Beach Studios in California. He executive produces alongside Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. Favreau signed on in March 2018, serving as writer and showrunner.

Subsequently, work on a new Star Wars series began for Disney+. He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in October 2012. Star Wars creator George Lucas had begun developing a live-action Star Wars television series by 2009, but this project was deemed too expensive to produce.

It stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a lone bounty hunter who goes on the run after being hired to retrieve " The Child". It is the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise, beginning five years after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). The Mandalorian is an American space Western television series created by Jon Favreau for the streaming service Disney+.
