Szostak: As a member of Doug Chiang's Lucasfilm art department, who worked on "The Mandalorian" since Day One, there honestly wasn't too much that surprised me in compiling the book.īut, as I started to interview everyone involved and put the sequence of events together, what really struck me is how an amazing series of coincidences brought Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Favreau, and Dave Filoni together, leading to the creation of the show: Favreau and Filoni having met and worked together on "The Clone Wars" a decade prior, Jon having played a Mandalorian on "The Clone Wars," Filoni subsequently learning the craft of live-action filmmaking on the set of the recent "Star Wars" films, and finally Kennedy being tasked with finding a filmmaker and show for Disney+. : In compiling images for this special concept art book, what surprises or fun facts did you learn about the making of the show? And that side of things comes from having artists and filmmakers like Dave Filoni and Doug Chiang contributing decades of knowledge and expertise. But "The Mandalorian" does it both unencumbered by the preceding 40+ years of "Star Wars" storytelling and fully-immersed in the visual language and deep lore of that storytelling. In my opinion, what show creator Jon Favreau has done exceedingly well with "The Mandalorian," and why it resonates so strongly with the fans, is tell a simple and straight-forward, Western-inspired, Man-with-No-Name type story, with a very endearing and emotionally resonant story of found family and coming together at its core.Īnd that is exactly what the very best "Star Wars" stories have always done: tell simple stories with a strong moral and emotional center.
There are so many influences in the mix: Kurosawa samurai films, classic and Spaghetti Westerns, fantasy, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, New Wave cinema, Joseph Campbell's monomyth, etc.
And I think that has to do with how seemingly simple but actually complex what George Lucas did with "Star Wars" back in 1977. Phil Szostak: That's a very good question! It's often difficult, even for Lucasfilm employees and "Star Wars" scholars such as myself, to put your finger on what exactly the "Star Wars" aesthetic is, or what makes something feel like "Star Wars" versus something which doesn't quite hit the mark.
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