Pedro Pascal hangs with Gina Carano in new photos from The Mandalorian

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Get ready for more Mandalorian news as Entertainment Weekly has dropped two new photos from the upcoming Disney+ series which feature the titular Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) as well as Cara Dune (Gina Carano), a former Rebel Shock Trooper turned mercenary. Carano told EW that Dune is a loner who has traveled from planet to planet. "She’s strong. She runs into the Mandalorian on one of these planets that she’s hiding out on and thinks that he’s there to take her in and then their relationship escalates from there," Carano said.

The first photo features the Mandalorian and Cara Dune standing side-by-side ready to take on an unseen foe, while the second finds the pair, along with a mystery woman glimpsed in the trailer, in a much more relaxed setting.

Taking place after the events of RETURN OF THE JEDI but well before THE FORCE AWAKENS, the world of The Mandalorian is a lawless one, something more akin to the Old West. Much of the inspiration for the series comes from the first act of A NEW HOPE, with its many creatures, bounty hunters, and outlaws. Series creator Jon Favreau added that The Mandalorian will be traveling from system to system with a very "boots on the ground" feel which doesn't leave room for any major legacy characters, but he's not about to rule that out for subsequent seasons.

I’ve always been curious what the other people in the cantina are up to. We’re digging really deep in the toy chest and pulling out the action figures that people were always curious about and were not quite in the center frame, but have a lot of potential.

As far as the foes the Mandalorian will be going up against, the most powerful of the bunch is said to be Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito), a former governor whose world fell apart when the Rebels blew up the second Death Star. "He’s an Imperial remnant of a very fine officer who then switches to become sort of the guardian of the people," Esposito said. "But what does [Moff Gideon] really want? This guy is going to be a big player because he has an idea of how to keep order." This may point to Gideon having something to do with the early origins of the First Order. Series director Dave Filoni teased, "what’s most exciting to me is that I am very confident we did some things — and fans will see things — that have never been seen before."

The Mandalorian follows a lone bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal) in the outer reaches of the galaxy as he sets out to collect a particularly difficult prize. In addition to Pascal, the cast of The Mandalorian also includes Giancarlo Esposito, Gina Carano, Nick Nolte, Carl Weathers, Emily Swallow, Omid Abtahi, Taika Waititi, Ming-Na Wen, and Werner Herzog. The first episode of The Mandalorian will premiere when Disney+ launches on November 12, 2019.