Disney’s live-action Star Wars show could cost $100 million, will be set on [SPOILER]

Disney is making its own video streaming service so it can compete with companies like Netflix, Amazon and also normal TV. The House of Mouse has been keeping details like content, price, and even the name of the service under wraps, but The New York Times unveiled a few things in a profile of executive Ricky Strauss, who will be in charge of “Disneyflix,” as some in Hollywood are calling it, when it launches in late 2019.

One of the show’s we know will feature on the service is a live-action Star Wars series helped by Iron Man director Jon Favreau. According to the Times, the 10-episode series is going to cost Disney upwards of $100 million. That’s how much it cost HBO to produce all 10 episodes of Game of Thrones season 6, still the most expensive season of that show to date. Disney isn’t playing around.

Favreau emailed the Times about the series. “Star Wars is a big world,” he said, “and Disney’s new streaming service affords a wonderful opportunity to tell stories that stretch out over multiple chapters.” Ah, but where in the world of Star Wars will this still-untitled show take place? Rumors have been swirling for awhile, and reliable scoop-hounds Making Star Wars have a good one: according to their sources, Disney’s Star Wars show will be set on the planet of Mandalore roughly three years after the death of Emperor Palpatine and the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi.

If you watched the final season of the animated series Star Wars Rebels, you know that Mandalore supported the Empire. After it falls, the rumors are that Mandalorian society is thrown into turmoil. Per Making Star Wars, the new show will be about Mandalore rising from the ashes and attempting to restore its former greatness.

A couple of Mandalorian characters have shown up in the Star Wars movies, most notably Jango Fett, the bounty hunter who served as the genetic template for the clone troopers for the Grand Army of the Republic. Boba Fett is Jango’s exact clone, which kinda-sorta-not-really makes him Mandalorian.

Could Boba Fett show up in the new series? It’s possible. True, he looks to have died in the Sarlacc Pit in Return of the Jedi, but Disney could write its way out of that if it wanted to.

More circumstantial evidence that the Mandalore rumors are real: Disney recently announced the return The Clone Wars animated series, with a new season that will continue the Siege of Mandalore storyline. Disney operates on an “everything connects” philosophy, so it would make sense for the Clone Wars revival to lead into new show set on Mandalore. On Clone Wars, Favreau himself provided the voice for the Mandalorian Pre Vizsla, another connection.

If Favreau’s live-action Star Wars series is going to be about Mandalore’s rise following the fall of the Empire, then it will likely take place on the planet itself. Mandalore is dotted with massive domed cities, years of wars having left its surface inhospitable. The different clans constantly war with each other, so expect some factionalism. The varying moons Mandalore could play a role as well.

In any case, any live-action series about Mandalore is going to be very expensive; we expect Favreau can make good use of every penny of that $100 million.

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