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The Mandalorian Season 2 Unleashes First Wave of Character Posters

With less than three weeks to go until the second season of The Mandalorian makes its way back onto Disney+ screens, the streaming service is releasing a series of character profile posters spotlighting "who's who" in the live-action "Star Wars" series' universe. What follows is a fresh look at Pedro Pascal's Din Djarin aka "Mando," The Child aka Baby Yoda, Gina Carano's (maskless) Cara Dune, and Carl Weathers's Greef Karga. Now here's the big question: do we get a name-confirmation for Sasha Banks's character and casting confirmations on Rosario Dawson, Timothy Olyphant, Temuera Morrison, Katee Sackhoff, and Michael Biehn through a new trailer or the next series of posters first?

Behind the camera, Peyton Reed (Ant-Man), Robert Rodriguez (Sin City), cast member Carl Weathers, Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Bryce Dallas Howard (Dads), and Sam Hargrave (Extraction) will be sharing time with series creator Jon Favreau and executive producer Dave Filoni in The Mandalorian director's chair. While the second season of Disney+'s live-action Star Wars spinoff series appears to have gotten off relatively light compared to many COVID-19-impacted productions, Favreau was asked if new health and safety guidelines would make it difficult starting up production on a (for now) hypothetical third season and if he had concerns. As Favreau sees it, the series' reliance on virtual sets/scenes and distance-based production actually lends itself pretty naturally to the "new norms" on sets now:

"The fact that the set is much more contained is a benefit because you can limit the number of people. A lot of the people controlling it are doing it remotely from what we call the Brain Bar, which is a bank of gaming computers, essentially. The amount of people near the camera could be much smaller than [usual]. We also shoot a lot outside, which is helpful, too. We build to a moment in filming more like an animated production, where we have a lot of storyboards, a lot of discussions, and scouting in virtual reality. We use cinematic tools in VR much the same way we did for The Lion King and The Jungle Book. A lot of times the actors you are seeing on the screen aren't actually there on set."

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