Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man 1 & 2, The Juggle Book, and the Lion King remake, is the creator and will be the show runner of the entire series. There are also multiple talented and diverse Directors attached to the project.
Rick Famuyiwa, director of Dope, and many other movies and shows, will be will be directing episodes in the first season
Taika Waititi, director of Thor Ragnarok, and many other movies, will direct an episode as well.
Deborah Chow, a director from Jessica Jones, Lost in Space, Better Call Saul and multiple other shows, will be directing episodes in the first season.
Dave Filoni, creator of The Clones and Rebels will be directing the pilot, and is on producer attached to it.
Bryce Dallas Howard, will be directing an episode in the first season as well. Yes, she’s related to Ron Howard.
Greig Fraser, Cinematographer for Rogue One, and a bucket load more films, will be the Cinematographer attached to the show.
It’s got fucking Mandalorians in it! What else can be better Than Mandalorians?!
I mean look at this talented and diverse list of creators! I’m hype.
Jon’s choices for directors – apart from Filoni but I suppose he couldn’t avoid having him – makes me cautiously optimistic for this. I wish I could be hyped but Star Wars has disappointed me too much in the last year.
Still, it is looking better than I thought it would when they announced a live action TV-series. There’s also some interesting sneaked photos on Making Star Wars’ website that indicates that there’ll be some kind of castle setting for it.
Yeah, I have mixed feelings about Filoni as well. On one hand, I love Rebels and Clone Wars, on the other had, there are a lot of things I hate in both show. New Mandalorians being the most known thing I bitch about. Though he does have good ideas, and the other directors are pretty amazing as well. I’m just tired of people thanking or crediting everyone, but the actual creator Jon Favreau.
I find that since people are hating on the show already, I’m more incline to root for it. All we have is an image and a bunch of diverse directors. I like the directors and I’ve seen most of all they’re work. I had mixed feelings about Johnson just cause I didn’t like his movies, but hopefully this is a beacon of hope in the subversion dumpster we’ve been having.
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