The Mandalorian

Television series
German title	The Mandalorian
Original title	The Mandalorian
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	since 2019
Production company	Lucasfilm , Fairview Entertainment
Episodes	8 in 1+ seasons ( list )
genre	Space western , drama
idea	Jon Favreau , Dave Filoni (Co)
music	Ludwig Göransson
camera	Barry Idoine, Greig Fraser
Initial release	November 12, 2019 on Disney +
First publication in German	November 12, 2019 on Disney +
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Pedro Pascal : The Mandalorian Carl Weathers : Greef Karga Werner Herzog : Client Omid Abtahi : Dr. Pershing Gina Carano : Cara Dune Giancarlo Esposito : Moff Gideon Nick Nolte : Kuiil Emily Swallow : Armorer
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The Mandalorian , also Star Wars: The Mandalorian , is an American space western series by author and producer Jon Favreau , which has been available in several languages ​​in selected countries on the Disney + streaming portal since November 12, 2019 also with German dubbing and subtitles. In Germany, the series has been available since March 24, 2020 with the local launch of the Disney + streaming service. The first episode was also broadcast two days earlier on ProSieben .

It is the first real series in the fictional Star Wars universe. The leading role of the initially nameless Mandalorian is played by Pedro Pascal . In December 2019, Disney announced the start of season 2 for October 2020.

action

The Mandalorian protagonist is a lone fighter who earns his living as a bounty hunter five years after the fall of the empire. He has made a name for himself in the bounty hunters' guild by tracking down and detaining fugitives. He is given the task of tracking down a fifty-year-old from an imperial client. The Mandalorian realizes that this fifty-year-old is a child and therefore of far greater importance than he could ever have imagined. The child is of the same species as the former Jedi master Yoda . Contrary to the rules of the bounty hunter guild, he decides to take the child away from the client and instead to protect it, whereby he himself becomes the target of the other bounty hunters. The Mandalorian then fights his way across the galaxy with commissioned jobs and always has to pay attention to the child, which forces him to always be on his guard and not trust anyone.

Classification in the Star Wars universe

The action takes place nine years after the events of Star Wars and five years after The Return of the Jedi . The series follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter and lone fighter who, after the fall of the Galactic Empire, fights his way through the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the influence of the New Republic.

Timeline of films and series in the Star Wars universe

films and series		fictitious calendar (in years)
		VSY																											NSY
		33	32	31	30-24	23	22nd	21st	20th	19th	18th	17-15	14th	13	12	11	10	9	8-7	6th	5	4th	3	2	1	0				1	2	3	4th	5	6-7	8th	9	10	11-31	32	33	34		35	36
The Phantom Menace Attack of the Clones. Revenge of the Sith			I.				II			III
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi																												IV				V	VI
The Force Awakens The Last Jedi The Rise of Skywalker																																										VII	VIII	IX
Rogue One Solo														a													R1
														a			S.
The Clone Wars (+ movie ) Rebels Resistance The Mandalorian							TCW
																					Rebels													b
																																									R.
																																					M.
		33	32	31	30-24	23	22nd	21st	20th	19th	18th	17-15	14th	13	12	11	10	9	8-7	6th	5	4th	3	2	1	0				1	2	3	4th	5	6-7	8th	9	10	11-31	32	33	34		35	36
Prequel Trilogy (Episodes I-III) Original trilogy (Episodes IV – VI) Sequel Trilogy (Episodes VII-IX) A Star Wars Story Films Series a prolog b epilogue The consequences of the series The Powers of Fate take place at different times, so that a list in the table is not meaningful. Also not listed miniseries, short stories, comics, books and other ancillary works of the official Star Wars - canon and the theme park Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge (between VIII and IX). The fictitious calendar of the Star Wars universe is used for the schematic classification of the actions . This differentiates between the years before the Battle of Yavin (VSY) and after the Battle of Yavin (NSY). The Battle of Yavin IV marks the end of Star Wars (1977), in which Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance destroy the first Death Star .

production

History of origin

Screenwriter and producer Jon Favreau at the premiere of his film The Jungle Book in Sydney 2016.

George Lucas had the first ideas for a Star Wars real series in 2010. Lucas was planning a series under the working title Star Wars: Underworld about the underworlds of the planet Coruscant , which would be between the films Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars should play. A total of around 50 finished scripts were written for the series. The work on further scripts was hampered by the writers' strike by the Writers Guild of America . In January 2012, the producer Rick McCallum stated that the project should not be advanced for a few years, as the technologies necessary to implement the series within the budget were not yet available. With the sale of Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney Company in 2012, all projects that were being planned at that time were stopped and discarded because they wanted to concentrate on the development of a new film trilogy. Some of the ideas and elements for Star Wars: Underworld were carried over to other Star Wars productions. For example, the first two anthology films, Rogue One and Solo , were originally conceived as part of the real-life series, and ideas for The Clone Wars series were adopted.

In November 2017, Disney announced that it was working on a Star Wars real series. However, this has nothing in common with the series planned at the time. The director Jon Favreau had submitted several drafts for a possible Star Wars series to the head studio Lucasfilm . In August 2018 he was hired as the writer and executive producer of the series. Production costs of around 100 million US dollars are budgeted for the first eight episodes . The directors for the first season were Dave Filoni , Taika Waititi , Deborah Chow , Rick Famuyiwa and Bryce Dallas Howard . Filoni, who was already responsible for the animation series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels , was also hired as executive producer and storyboard artist.

Even before the first season was released, Jon Favreau confirmed that the script and preproduction of a second season were already in progress. This should be published in autumn 2020. Pre-production of the third season and work on the script began in spring 2020.

Filming and visual effects

Filming of the first season began in California in October 2018 . There also visited Star Wars creator George Lucas the set. During filming, there was a break-in on the set in Manhattan Beach, in which several unspecified items were stolen from the crew. Filming of the first season was completed at the end of February 2019. One year after filming began, work on the second season began in October 2019, for which series developer Jon Favreau also directed an episode. Dave Filoni and Carl Weathers were also hired as directors. Filming of the second season ended in early March 2020.

StageCraft

The visual effects are as before on all other Star Wars -projects by George Lucas in 1975 for Star Wars based company Industrial Light & Magic produced (ILM). This company used (instead of green screens or CGI as before ) equipped with liquid crystals (LCD) video walls on which the environment or the background (the scene ) was played or displayed. For example, the surroundings of the actual locations were recorded with actors before the shooting and these recordings were then built up into a virtual space (as in computer games) using the Unreal Engine 4 developed by Epic Games . This StageCraft technology (aka The Volume ), christened by ILM, made it possible to display a recording tailored to the respective viewing angle on the LCD walls. A useful side effect is that it helps actors empathize with scenes. In addition, the effort and logistics costs that would have arisen if the shoot had not taken place in the studios are reduced.

Cast and dubbing

In the main role, Pedro Pascal can be seen as the eponymous Mandalorian. With the exception of the protagonist and the child, who are staged by two puppeteers supplemented with CGI , most of the other characters only appear in a few episodes. These characters include Gina Carano as Cara Dune, Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon, Emily Swallow as the gunsmith, Carl Weathers as Greef Karga, Omid Abtahi as Dr. Pershing, Werner Herzog as client and Nick Nolte as Kuiil (voice).

Guest appearances include Ming-Na Wen , Mark Boone Junior , Bill Burr , Natalia Tena , Clancy Brown , Richard Ayoade , the series directors Taika Waititi (voice of the droid IG-11), Dave Filoni , Rick Famuyiwa and Deborah Chow (each as a pilot of the New Republic) and showrunner Jon Favreau himself (voice of Paz Vizla).

The German dubbing was created under the dialogue book by Björn Schalla and Klaus Bickert as well as under the dialogue direction by Björn Schalla by the dubbing company FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Berlin , which are also responsible for the Star Wars films. The synchronization was already completed before the start of Germany for Disney + in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands, where the episodes were published weekly.

role	actor	image	Main role (episodes)	Voice actor
The Mandalorian (Din Djarin)	Pedro Pascal		1.01–	Sascha Rotermund
Greef Karga	Carl Weathers		1.01–1.03, 1.06–	Jürgen Kluckert
Client	Werner Herzog		1.01, 1.03, 1.07	Hubert Burczek
Dr. Pershing	Omid Abtahi		1.01, 1.03	Florian Hoffmann
Kuiil	Nick Nolte (voice)		1.01-1.02, 1.07	Thomas Kästner
IG-11	Taika Waititi (voice)		1.01, 1.07-1.08	Marius Clarén
Cara Dune	Gina Carano		1.04, 1.07–	Friederike Walke
Moff Gideon	Giancarlo Esposito		1.07–	Frank Röth

music

The music for the series is the responsibility of the Swedish composer and music producer Ludwig Göransson , who previously achieved international fame with the film scores for Creed - Rocky's Legacy , Creed II - Rocky's Legacy and Black Panther , for which he was awarded an Oscar for film music could. For each episode, a soundtrack about 20-30 minutes long was released.

Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

On Star Wars Day 2020 (May 4), the documentary series Disney Galerie / Star Wars: The Mandalorian started on Disney + . The eight-episode series focuses on the creation and making-of of The Mandalorian . Jon Favreau guides you through the individual episodes with interviews, videos and discussions. The other seven episodes are scheduled for weekly Fridays.

Episode list

The first season consists of eight episodes. At the start of Disney + on November 12, 2019, the episodes were already available with a German dubbed version. The first season in German-speaking countries was only published regularly from March 24 to May 1, 2020, when Disney + became available there. Two episodes were published at the start, followed by another one every Friday. ProSieben premiered the first episode on March 22, 2020. The second season should be released from October 2020.

No.	German title	Original title	First published in the USA	German language first release ( Disney + )	Director	script
1	Chapter 1: The Mandalorian	Chapter 1: The Mandalorian	Nov 12, 2019	Nov 12, 2019	Dave Filoni	Jon Favreau
The Mandalorian protagonist is a lone fighter who earns his living as a bounty hunter five years after the fall of the empire. He has made a name for himself in the bounty hunters' guild by tracking down and detaining fugitives. After many smaller assignments, the leader of the guild, Greef Karga, referred him to a wealthy, imperial client who had a particularly lucrative assignment. At a subsequent meeting at which the customer is protected by Imperial stormtroopers wearing shabby armor, he and Dr. Pershing was given the task of tracking down a 50-year-old person on the planet Arvala-7 and - if possible - taking him alive. The Mandalorian accepts the assignment and a short time later arrives at the destination with the help of a local moisture farmer named Kuiil. There his plan of a surprise attack is thwarted by the sudden intervention of the assassin droid IG-11, which is also part of the bounty hunter guild and had received the order to eliminate the target person. After encountering numerous bandits, the bounty hunter and IG-11 decide to share the bounty and storm the bandit camp together. When they get past the guards, they discover that the 50-year-old target is still a child (only the viewer knows that it apparently belongs to the species to which the famous Jedi master Yoda belonged). When his guild mate IG-11 tries to shoot the child, the Mandalorian destroys him to save the child's life.
2	Chapter 2: The Child	Chapter 2: The Child	Nov 15, 2019	Nov 15, 2019	Rick Famuyiwa	Jon Favreau
On his return to his spaceship, the Mandalorian and the child are ambushed and have to defend themselves against other bounty hunters. He succeeds, but his arm is injured. When the child tries to heal the injury with the help of power, he blocks this attempt out of ignorance. Arriving at the spaceship, the Mandalorian finds out that Jawas have stolen many important parts. However, the attempt to prevent the scrap collectors from escaping fails, so that he is stuck with the child and his flightless spaceship on the planet. He decides to seek the help of Kuiil again, who suggests negotiating an exchange with the Jawas. They demand that the Mandalorian provide them with an egg in exchange for returning the stolen parts. After agreeing to this proposal, he finds the egg in a cave, where it is guarded by a huge mudhorn. When fighting the beast, the Mandalorian is badly hit and is obviously unable to defeat the beast. Shortly before it can complete its supposedly final attack, however, it is stopped by the child who, with the help of force, makes it float in the air. The Mandalorian takes the chance that presents itself and kills the beast with a knife. The Jawas then return the parts of their ship to the Mandalorian in exchange for the delicacy. Together with Kuiil he succeeds in repairing the spaceship. However, Kuiil declines offers to share the bounty and join the bounty hunter. Kuiil thanks for the pacification of the valley, since all bandits were killed. They say goodbye as friends; together with the child who has recovered from the exhausting use of power, the Mandalorian leaves the planet.
3	Chapter 3: The Bug	Chapter 3: The Sin	Nov 22, 2019	Nov 22, 2019	Deborah Chow	Jon Favreau
The Mandalorian returns with the child to the client and, thanks to the reward, is able to have new armor forged. However, he struggles with the decision to hand over the child into the hands of obvious supporters of the fallen empire and - contrary to the code of the bounty hunter guild - decides to bring the child back. As a result, he himself becomes a target for the rest of the bounty hunters. Only with the help of his Mandalorian comrades in their hiding place does he and the child manage to escape from the guild.
4th	Chapter 4: The Refuge	Chapter 4: Sanctuary	Nov 29, 2019	Nov 29, 2019	Bryce Dallas Howard	Jon Favreau
The Mandalorian and the child find refuge on a sparsely populated planet. A farmer's settlement there is regularly attacked by looters, which is why the farmers ask the Mandalorian for help, who in return is allowed to set up camp in the village. Together with ex-soldier Cara Dune, the Mandalorian agrees to protect the villagers. However, you will soon discover that the raiders are in possession of an AT-ST, a large ruff with high firepower. Together with the villagers, they develop a plan to defeat and drive away the looters and the AT-ST, which ultimately succeeds. After the child is almost killed by a guild bounty hunter, the Mandalorian realizes that he and the child are not safe in the village and cannot stay there, which is why they leave it again.
5	Chapter 5: The Gunslinger	Chapter 5: The Gunslinger	6 Dec 2019	6 Dec 2019	Dave Filoni	Dave Filoni
After the Mandalorian fends off a bounty hunter's attack, he must land his damaged spaceship on the planet Tatooine to repair it. There he is asked for help by another bounty hunter, Toro Calican, who wants to be accepted into the bounty hunter's guild and has to grab Fennec Shand for it. In view of the entire bounty, the Mandalorian agrees to help him pay for the repairs. They manage to arrest Fennec Shand. She tries to convince Toro Calican that the Mandalorian is the much bigger target, since he had betrayed the guild on Nevarro and Calican could make a name for himself in the guild by capturing him. Calican then kills Shand and decides to hand over the Mandalorian and the child to the guild. However, the Mandalorian manages to kill Calican and leave the planet with the child. Later, in the desert, a mysterious person approaches Shand's body.
6th	Chapter 6: The Prisoner	Chapter 6: The Prisoner	13 Dec 2019	13 Dec 2019	Rick Famuyiwa	Christopher Yost & Rick Famuyiwa Idea: Christopher Yost
The Mandalorian receives a job offer from an old companion. Together with three mercenaries - Mayfeld, Burg, Xi'an - and a droid named Zero, he is supposed to free a prisoner from aboard a New Republic prison transport that is allegedly only manned by droids. After they have switched off the watch droids there, they come across a soldier in the ship's control room, who uses a tracking device to alert the New Republic. The crew frees Qin, Xi'an's brother. Mayfeld, Burg, Xi'an and Qin then betray the Mandalorian and lock him in a cell. However, he manages to free himself and gradually arrest the members of his former crew on board the transporter. On his spaceship, the Mandalorian switches off the droid Zero and flies back to the client with Qin on board. There he delivers Qin, secures the bounty and, by leaving the tracking device on board the space station, ensures that X-wings of the New Republic destroy it before the client's gunboat can attack the Mandalorian.
7th	Chapter 7: The Reckoning	Chapter 7: The Reckoning	Dec 18, 2019	Dec 18, 2019	Deborah Chow	Jon Favreau
The Mandalorian receives a message from Greef Karga, who offers to see to the safety of the child and to end the guild's hunt for him if he agrees to a meeting and kills the client. This would allow the Mandalorian to live in peace with the child. He decides to accept the offer and again asks Cara Dune and Kuiil for help. The latter has meanwhile repaired the IG-11 droid and is now using it as a defense and service droid. Together they travel to Nevarro to meet Greef Karga. On the way to the client they are attacked by Mynocks, whereby Karga is wounded. The child eventually heals the wounds with the help of the Force. A little later, Karga shoots his companions and reveals that he originally planned a trap for the Mandalorian. He persuades the Mandalorian to offer himself up as a prisoner in order to instead set a trap for the client and kill him. Meanwhile, Kuiil is supposed to ensure the child's safety. When meeting the client, they are suddenly attacked by Imperial stormtroopers under the command of Moff Gideon, and the client dies. Imperial soldiers also manage to kill Kuiil and take the child.
8th	Chapter 8: Salvation	Chapter 8: Redemption	Dec. 27, 2019	Dec. 27, 2019	Taika Waititi	Jon Favreau
IG-11 kills the troopers who captured the child and makes their way back to the city where the Mandalorian, Cara Dune and Greef Karga are surrounded by Imperial soldiers under the command of Moff Gideon. After a firefight, they manage to escape through underground passages into the Mandalorian camp. There they discover, however, that Imperial troops killed most of the Mandalorians after they had left their hiding place and helped the Mandalorian and the child. The Mandalorian receives a rocket backpack from the armorer . While the blacksmith stays with her forge, the others flee in a boat on a lava flow from the sewer system. Since the exit is surrounded by imperial troops, IG-11 sacrifices itself, which according to the protocol initiates its self-destruction and thereby destroys the waiting storm troop. However, the fugitives are attacked by Moff Gideon in a TIE fighter. The Mandalorian succeeds in attaching himself to the TIE fighter with a rocket backpack and crashing it with an explosive charge. Greef Karga and Cara Dune decide to stay on Nevarro while the Mandalorian leaves with the child. Moff Gideon, however, survived the TIE fighter's crash and frees himself from the wreck with the help of the dark sword.

Web links

• The Mandalorian in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Mandalorian at Fernsehserien.de

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