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The Star Wars TV Series Could Be The Boost The Franchise Needs

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Neil Calloway says the new series might save the galaxy… It’s been rumoured and planned for a long time, but this week finally brought the news that Jon Favreau will write and produce a live action Star Wars TV series. It’s news that will make Disney’s shareholder’s happy – countless people will sign up for […]

Jon Favreau will write and produce Star Wars live-action TV series

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Its only been a couple days since Star Wars Rebels aired its series finale, but we already have news on the next television series from the galaxy far, far away. Rather than another animated series, Lucasfilm has announced a live-action series that has long been rumoured to be in development. What’s more, Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book) […]

UPDATE: Ron Howard reveals that Jon Favreau has a “cool and important” role in Solo: A Star Wars Story

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Having voiced the character of Pre Vizsla in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, it seems that Jon Favreau is set for a return to the galaxy far, far away this May, with Ron Howard revealing that Favreau will “voice a very cool and important alien character” in Solo: A Star Wars Story. The reveal happened […]

Disney’s The Jungle Book 2 will feature unused ideas from the original animated movie

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Following the box office success of The Jungle Book, director Jon Favreau is currently hard at work on bringing another of Disney’s animated classics back to the big screen with a “live-action” remake of The Lion King, after which he’ll be returning to the world of Rudyard Kipling for The Jungle Book 2. Speaking to […]

The Lion King’s full cast revealed, Beyonce confirmed as Nala

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The full cast for Jon Favreau’s live-action take on Disney’s classic The Lion King has been revealed with mega-artist Beyonce being one of the last to join the film. She will play Nala as an adult and shared a photo of the rest of the cast over her Facebook page, while Disney shared via Twitter. The other […]

Exclusive Interview: Mark Jackson on The Orville, working with Seth MacFarlane and Jon Favreau, and more

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Martin Carr chats with Mark Jackson about The Orville, working with Seth MacFarlane and Jon Favreau, and more… Just a short walk from Waterloo station I sat down to talk with Mark Jackson. Known to UK television audiences from The Royal and theatre goers in productions as varied as War Horse and Noises Off!, we discussed his love of science fiction […]

New Iron Man Mark I concept art revealed

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Nine years removed from the film that launched Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and we’re still learning about the attention to detail and artistic work that went in to adapting one of Marvel comic’s best known characters to the big screen. In this latest reveal from artist Ryan Meindering, we can see the intricacies of the technological […]

Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Jon Favreau featured in Avengers 4 set photo

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Following her surprise return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Spider-Man: Homecoming, it seems that Gwyneth Paltrow will once again be back as Pepper Potts in the currently in production Avengers 4, with Jon Favreau sharing the following image of the ‘Infinity Trinity’ of Pepper, Happy Hogan and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) on his […]

Chiwetel Ejiofor in talks to voice Scar in The Lion King

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Disney and Jon Favreau may have found its villainous Scar for The Lion King remake, with Doctor Strange’s Chiwetel Ejiofor in talks to voice the evil lion, according to The Wrap. Jeremy Irons voiced the role in the original animated film. So far, the film’s cast includes Donald Glover (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Simba, Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street) […]