Jon Favreau discusses how The Mandalorian is a lot like Star Wars: A New Hope

Entertainment Weekly

"It’s like after the Roman Empire falls, or when you don’t have a centralized shogun in Japan­ — and, of course, the Old West, when there wasn’t any government in the areas that had not yet been settled,” says Favreau, the showrunner of the Disney+ Star Wars series, in an EW cover story. “Those are also cinematic tropes in films that originally inspired George Lucas to make Star Wars.” He adds: "I’ve always been curious what the other people in the cantina are up to. We’re digging really deep in the toy chest and pulling out the action figures that people were always curious about and were not quite in the center frame, but have a lot of potential.”