Iron Man filmmaker Jon Favreau to kind a reside-motion Star Wars series

Director Jon Favreau has already taken his first steps into the realm of the Force, and now he’s venturing deeper.

The Iron Man and The Jungle Book filmmaker has signed on to write and kind a reside-motion Star Wars series for Disney’s recent state-to-particular person platform, Lucasfilm announced Thursday.

Favreau previously performed the Mandalorian personality Pre Vizsla in The Clone Wars provocative series and he’s providing the insist for an as-yet-unnamed multi-armed alien in Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.

His series will seemingly be launched on Disney’s state-to-particular person platform, but no date for the venture changed into once situation and no timeline for the myth changed into once confirmed.

“While you happen to told me at eleven years extinct that I’d be attending to disclose reviews in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn’t like believed you. I will’t wait to embark upon this involving adventure,” Favreau acknowledged in an announcement.

He’s for the time being giving The Jungle Book‘s hybrid reside-motion pc-animation treatment to a brand recent version of The Lion King, that might possibly possibly possibly hit theaters in 2019.

“Jon brings the ideal combination of manufacturing and writing skill, combined with a fluency in the Star Wars universe,” acknowledged Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. “This series will enable Jon the probability to work with a various neighborhood of writers and administrators and give Lucasfilm the opportunity to originate a magnificent skill inferior.”