Well, it looks like Disney is pretty damn serious about convincing Star Wars fans to sign up for its Disney+ streaming service. Not only is Jon Favreau’s Disney+ series The Mandalorian about a guy who looks like fan-favorite intergalactic badass Boba Fett, but the series has a dynamite cast that includes Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, and Nick Nolte. Today, that cast is getting even better thanks to the addition of Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, and Werner Herzog—the German filmmaker who you may recognize as the Jack Reacher villain who had two thumbs and not much else, hand-wise. That comes from Variety, which says The Mandalorian will also feature Emily Swallow and Omid Abtahi.
Herzog’s involvement was first rumored back in October after he teased that he was going to be in a “big franchise film” codenamed “Huckleberry.” The assumption was that he meant Star Wars: Episode IX (Finn, Huckleberry Finn, get it?), but then crew members working on The Mandalorian were spotted wearing patches that said “Huckleberry.” Now that his involvement is confirmed, we can finally get somebody into the Star Wars universe who doesn’t buy into the touchy-feely nonsense of some invisible “Force” that binds and balances the universe. Obviously, the only thing worth believing in is the endless misery of existence, and all of the color-coded lightsabers and cool starships are nothing but a distraction from the approach of death.
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Now that his involvement is confirmed, we can finally get somebody into the Star Wars universe who doesn’t buy into the touchy-feely nonsense of some invisible “Force” that binds and balances the universe. Ummm…you do understand that Herzog is being added to the cast…right?Not as a writer. Not as a director. A cast member. Who will be reading lines. Written by someone who does very much buy into that “nonsense” and obviously, likes that shit enough to be happy to have a role.Even as a joke it’s not clear where you thought you were going.
Star Wars is stupid.
What about your nards?
Correct
What an original and highly intellectual take! Gonna go throw my thesis comparing it to Proust in the trash thanks
Buggin’ Out, Apollo Creed, the weird guy from Jack Reacher, and Nick Nolte. I am FASCINATED by this cast. Disney’s officially got (more of) my money.
What are the chances Disney is betting that casual fans will mistake Carl Weathers for Billy Dee Williams and think Lando is in this show (which, I suppose he still could be)?
Bill Withers is in the Mandalorian?
Why does this not have more stars?!
I don’t know, but I stupidly put my money on Billy Dee Williams to beat Dolph Lundgren.
You could still win that.
It’s going to be sad when Weathers loses an arm in a tragic blaster mishap.
There’s still plenty of meat on that arm. Take it home, put it in a pot with some broth and a potato? You got yourself a stew going.
….I think I’d like my credits back.
All black people look alike to casual Star Wars fans? Only bor gullet can know the truth.
DILLON YOU SONUFABEECH
You fight great Stallion, but I’m a great fighter.
This would be way more interesting with Herzog directing and Favreau acting. Favreau has possibly the blandest directing style of any working director, I swear the dude owes basically his entire career to Robert Downey Jr.’s scenery inhaling performance as Tony Stark.
Sounds like we got a stew goin!
Boba, we got a stew goin
I don’t know what that means, but it sounds disgusting!
Saw Carl Weather’s name and came in to star the inevitable “now you’ve got a stew goin’” comment. Was not disappointed.
I am a fan of Carl Weathers. I think Action Jackson is an underrated cult hit. I’m happy to see him again. I’ve never seen him in anything where I didn’t appreciate his presence. Add in Giancarlo Esposito and Warner Herzog, you got a stew goin.
I’ll be your Huckleberry, Werner.
This is such a weird variety of casting that I love. I am ready. I love Werner. He’s just..so fucking odd. He got shot during an interview and shrugged it off with “it was not a significant bullet.” WHO THE HELL DOES THAT?
YEAH SO EPIC LEL WERNER HERZOG, THE FEELS OF EPIC HERZOG FTW, shut the fuck up
..Are you on drugs? I express excitement for the man and for the project (I am also a fan of the other two gentlemen in the article) and you respond with..that?
Squa is consistently terrible to everyone. I really don’t know why they haven’t been banished back to the greys.
It’s not easy being an 11-year-old kid with a prostate the size of a bowling ball, you guys
I’m starting to think he’s some kind of experimental AI bot.
Dude sucks. Ain’t much to it.
Could you go be needlessly puerile on Reddit or one of the chans or something?
Oh please, once and for all, fuck the fuck off.
Dick.
Werner Herzog joined on the condition that he could boil 10000 rats alive.
Which Carl Weathers will then make a stew out of.
“intergalactic badass Boba Fett”You mean the clone who gets a whooping 3 minutes of screen time and gets served a chickenshit death? (yeah, I know, technically he didn’t die). Yeah, total badass.
Boba Fett is dead again. Until Disney decides otherwise.
He did die
I don’t think that’s confirmed. They just find his empty charred armor in one of the terrible aftermath books. So he left it I guess so still alive…?
Dude had to be told by Vader to not be too violent, and then successfully tracked Han and managed to get paid twice for it. Bad ass.That said my favorite description of him is “The most overrated character anyone ever saw, with five lines in the trilogy, and one of them was AAAAAHHHHH!”
He didn’t track Han anywhere. And being told not to kill your bounties means you are a bad bounty hunter. The “dead or alive” thing isn’t real. Bounties are almost always wanted alive. Otherwise, they’d just be called hits.
Yeah, he’s the one who tracked them to Cloud City. And in Starwars there’s a lot of overlap between assassins and bounty hunters. And the Dead or Alive thing is very real. They make volleyball simulators.
Oh. I honestly hadn’t caught that part. I thought Lando ratted them out, but I suppose being tracked makes a little more sense.
It was both, really. Boba tracked them to Cloud City and Lando gave them up to Vader.
Wait a minute, are you saying my third-favorite Bon Jovi song is based on a lie??
I don’t think anyone would give a fuck about Boba Fett were it not for E.T. making his action figure seem like a big deal.
You had me Giancarlo Esposito, Disney. Probably should have opened with that.
Whereas I read that as Giancarlo Stanton, and was also in.
Delete your headline
Last Jedi still sucks.
WERNER: Do you like blue milk?CARL: No…I love it.
Oh, so THERE’S where all the PoC are in a galaxy far, far away.
Came in for this comment, was not disappointed.