"Your name will be legendary." Enjoy this new trailer for Jon Favreau's #TheMandalorian: https://t.co/rVw9PWV7mS, pic.twitter.com/Wx9WkcyNSN November 4, 2019
A week after the arrival of The Mandalorian and the launch of Disney Plus, we have more and more gaps in what to expect from the first Star Wars live TV series, including an introduction to a new character.
The first thing that emerges from this 30-second trailer: You can hear dialogue from Nick Nolte's alien character Kuiil. However, what is undoubtedly the main event occurs at the end of the trailer, as revealed by the assassin Fennec Shand, played by actress Ming-Na Wen Shield's agent.
Vanity Fair has more details on Fennec, whose name is partially inspired by the pointy-eared fox of the same name (Star Wars is surely still weird with its universe's character names). Wen compares his character to Han Solo in the moral ambiguity of him: this kind of gray area without a Jedi is what we're looking forward to seeing in The Mandalorian, and this character embodies that.
That said, the article also explains that she is an assassin who has worked for various criminal organizations in the Star Wars universe, which doesn't seem that ambiguous. Her weapon of choice in combat is "a big, big, big boy gun."
Not long to wait now...
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The Mandalorian cast is an eclectic band, with Wen and Nolte joined by supporting characters played by Werner Herzog, Taika Waititi, Giancarlo Esposito and Carl Weathers. Eventually, there will be so much content in Star Wars that it will be easier to come up with a list of actors who haven't appeared in the galaxy far, far away in one way or another.
As mentioned, we are more than seven days away from the first episode of The Mandalorian. It arrives alongside Disney Plus on November 12 and the rest will take place weekly.