Jon Favreau Discusses The Difference Between TV And Film Making For 'Star Wars'
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With The Mandalorian & Grogu merchandise reveal at the New York Toy Fair, Jon Favreau also revealed some small bits related to bringing the series to the big screen, including the challenges of making sure that people will want to see it in that format. He also conveyed a small bit of hope that the film can be every bit as successful as the series had been.
“We Star Wars, we have to execute at that tech level,” Favreau revealed. “So the challenge becomes: Okay, we presented a cinematic experience on the small screen. We have to up our game now to the movie theatre. That means taller aspect rations for IMAX, building sets that take full advantage of that, making the visual effects of the quality and caliber that we have to notch everything up. And then the storytelling as well.”
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In speaking of the storytelling, Favreau stated, “That adventure has to fill up the screen and has to be something – at this moment in time, when so much is competing for attention – that you’re going to stop what you’re doing, and you’re going to a movie theatre, and you’re going to sit down in that movie theatre, and you’re not going to be able to pause it, and you’re not going to be able to eat the food out of your refrigerator. You have to have such a good experience that you say, ‘This is worth my time. Let’s go again. I want to bring you. You should go see it.’”
What the adventure entails, Favreau talked on what is known. “There’s some stuff that people may have gotten clues to. He’s in a Razor Crest now, which is the ship that he originally had. He’s in the same model of ship. Grogu has levelled up a bit. We saw that he had trained with Luke, and time has passed. So he’s got a little of the Jedi influence. And then he’s also an apprentice Mandalorian. So now it’s time for dad to bring him on adventures. And pretty soon there will be a few more clues out there in the world.”
And lastly, he said that he’s “been working on Star Wars for seven years, and to be able to step up to doing it as a film feels like a culmination of what I’m working on.” So perhaps, once The Mandalorian & Grogu arrives in theatres May 22, Favreau will be ready to move on. If not with Star Wars in general, then at least with The Mandalorian.
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Source: Polygon
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