Delving into the lore of “Star Wars” could be extremely daunting even for followers who strive their finest to maintain up with the mountain of fabric that is consistently being launched. In principle, you would eat “Star Wars” content material on a loop and nonetheless by no means catch as much as every little thing taking place throughout the official canon alone.
Favreau is nicely conscious of this and was cautious to not dedicate an inordinate period of time to one thing that he wasn’t already deeply keen about. “First, it is not simply any IP [Intellectual Property] that I’ll have interaction with, it must be one thing that I already join with and really feel ardour for — and that I may dedicate a giant chunk of my life to doing one thing with, and contribute to what’s already there,” he instructed Movie Tales on a current journey to the UK for the season 3 premiere of “The Mandalorian.”
To wrap his head across the lore, Favreau’s second step is to make a listing from reminiscence of all of the issues he personally remembers to seek out out what’s particular and what stood out to him, personally. “Reminiscence has a approach of prioritising issues which might be most related,” he stated. “So the issues I keep in mind are going to be extra essential in some regards than the issues I analysis as a result of they’ve surfaced themselves.”
The subsequent step within the course of leads into intense analysis, one thing that is a should for “Star Wars,” however not essentially for “Iron Man” when Marvel was beginning the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel benefitted from Stan Lee’s steering that was then carried out by lots of completely different individuals who spun the tales in their very own methods. With “Star Wars,” Favreau needed to work inside George Lucas’s authentic imaginative and prescient.