television series in the four-decade history of the storied brand launches today with, which debuted with the entry of Disney+ into the streaming wars. No spoilers, but take a look in the video above at our take on the Jon Favreau crated, the launch of Disney+ and what it could all mean for Star Wars, Marvel and the Disney empire.
A very big-budget saga that initially seems to skip the cosmic struggles of Jedi Knights in favor of a lone-wolf bounty hunter saga that is informed as much by classic Clint Eastwood as by Luke Skywalker, though there is a true blast from the Galaxy far far away past at the very end of the first episode that truly raises the stakesfame.
Otherwise, with a lot to be revealed down the line, there are two things you need to know ASAP about the Favreau penned and showrunfranchise with a deep connection to the worlds and mythology George Lucas originally conceived.
For Season 1, which sees a second episode on the new streamer on November 15 and then weekly each Friday. the action is set on the lawless fringe of the galaxy shortly after the fiery funeral of Darth Vader on the forest moon of Endor – as depicted in 1983’sThe scrappy rebellion has toppled the evil Emperor and dispatched the Dark Lord but that’s only made things more dangerous in the lawless and sometimes icy outposts inhabited by bounty hunters.
That classic cantina scene and its environs are clearly echoed in the pilot episode, which also conjures up the classic intrigue of the bounty hunter sequences from the 1980 sequel,the darkest installment of the original trilogy. Favreau was among the young moviegoers who were transfixed by the famed cantina scene in the original film, which introduced Han Solo and Chewbacca as denizens of a lawless underworld that was more about profits than prophets.
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