On the occasion of the posting of the third season of the Disney+series online, the showrunner, director and producer evokes the changes in the Hollywood show.
by Thomas Sotinel
Kevin Feige, the sovereign of the Marvel kingdom, has never appeared in one of his productions only under the appearance of an omniscient machine. Like most of the great lords of the Disney Empire, he can walk on Sunset Boulevard without fear of being assaulted by tourists. The case of Jon Favreau, one of the most eminent representatives of this caste, is quite different. If you come across this fifties, its affable physiognomy and its slight overweight will leave the indelible impression of having already seen it somewhere. In any case, to the hundreds of millions of spectators of the Iron Man sagas, Avengers and Spider-Man, where he plays the role of Happy Hogan, senior part of the multinational founded by Tony Stark.
In real life, Jon Favreau has become a more than superior framework of the Disney Empire. He did not just direct the first two Iron Man and produce the last three very feature films of the Avengers series, he also produced the digital remakes of the Jungle Book (2016) and the Lion King. In 2019, the Simba de Pixels brought back more than $ 1 billion at the box office.
That year, Jon Favreau still changed profession and universes. He became a showrunner. On his own, on his side, he wrote the first four episodes of a series featuring a premium hunter with a face perpetually hidden under a heavy helmet of metal that has become a babysitter of an all green infant. Immediately accepted by Lucasfilms, the first series in real shots inspired by the universe of Star Wars, The Mandalorian, met with immediate success, which has powerfully contributed to the launch of the Disney+platform.
At the end of February, Jon Favreau was in Paris to promote the launch of the third season of the series. Until Wednesday 1 er March at midnight (9 am, Paris time), she will remain in good care in the big cloud warehouses. The risk of disclosing thus dismissed, the creator of The Mandalorian can return to the founding principles of the series, which guided him during the writing of these first episodes: “I was still a child when I discovered Star Wars , I found small stories, intimate accounts. Of course, there were iconic moments with the Star of Death and Imperial Crosers. But we spent most of the time in the company of two droids walking in the Desert or in a bar where a pistolero was out of a fight to jump into his ship. “
” Marvel, it’s my childhood “
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