if they'd made Mando into a film would it have been loved as much?

Wondering if Mando could have been a film first? What story to be told in two hours? Thoughts...?
Also is mando so big now he could carry a feature to end his story?

 

A single film? No a series of films? Maybe

 

In my opinion, no. Mandalorian’s strength is that it keeps its scope small and tells intimate stories that don’t typically have galactic ramifications. While this works wonderfully in a TV episodic format, I imagine it would have left fans underwhelmed due to the expectations that a true Star Wars theatrical experience should leave you in a sense of awe from its scope and scale.

Following in this vein, I suspect for similar reasons that Solo may have become as beloved as The Mandalorian had it been released instead as a Disney+ miniseries

 

It might have worked if it was just a standalone movie that wasn't meant to be anything more than what it is. It wouldn't be some grand arc to tell, but a simple action adventure flick like Rogue One or Solo.

That said, I don't think it would have worked because it would have to be about an known character, which wouldn't be seen as a Mando flick but a movie about that character who is a Mandalorian. And they wouldn't have been able to much with a random Mandalorian that we've never been introduced to.

Hence why the show format was the way to go and allowing us to get to know the character.

 

If Jawas torturing a Mandalorian for half an hour was literally the only thing Disney Plus gave us, it would’ve still been worth the 3-year subscription I paid for.

 

Now, hear me out - a feature length film with the entire two hours just showcasing Mando being tormented by Jawas.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

 

No. If Solo was any indication, films on smaller scope work best on TV format. There were many times where I felt Solo would have been a much better received film... if it was made into a TV series and we gradually see Han become Han Solo. The film just sort of rushed it to fit the time.

 

I don't think so. Solo wasn't well received, although the behind the scenes problems didn't help, so I think it would be a non-event.

 

What if it was just two hours of that?

 

I'm guessing that a Mandalorian film would inevitably have focused on Fett because of the pre-existing character recognition. I think Lucasfilm/Disney made the right call by opting for the long form television/small screen storytelling approach focusing on a new character, namely Din Djarin. I've never been a massive Fett fan, but I've enjoyed the way he has been slowly introduced into The Mandalorian. I've posted elsewhere that I think Fett has, within the couple or so episodes he has appeared in, become a much more interesting character than he was, for me, based on ESB and ROTJ and, I guess, AOTC. Obviously, Star Wars still has a big screen future, but I think TCW, Rebels and The Mandalorian have shown that long form storytelling can deliver something much more nuanced and satisfying. It obviously helps if you have the right people on board and I think Filoni and Favreau - as well as some of the great storytellers and directors that have worked on The Mandalorian - are those right people. I'm looking forward to the season finale dropping on Friday! Still, given that the Ahsoka and Rangers of The New Republic series are all set in the same timeline as The Mandalorian, I wouldn't rule out that some kind of ultimate, intertwined finale of the three series could end-up on the big screen.

 

Not to be argumentative, but based on this notion, then the show should have bombed because it was based on an unknown character. Star Wars would have bombed in 77 because none of the characters were known.
If it was a movie, we wouldn't have been able to delve as deeply into Din's character, especially with his range of emotion being null due to always wearing the helmet. I think that would be a bigger cause for it to not work as a movie as opposed tp a show.

 

i believe the movie will be exactly the same like the show but with less adventures and characters Mando face Gideon and finds Grogu planet in the end

 

hope a cinema does show the mandolrian on a big screen one day some of us are watching on crappy laptops

 

Solo also didn’t have an insanely adorable baby Yoda species in it.

 

One of the things that hooked people onto the Mandalorian was in fact Grogu (AKA Baby Yoda) at the end of the first episode. Without that last scene, the whole premise comes across as a poor-man's Boba Fett show. It was that revelation that gave the show its identity and the fact it was kept a secret until release only made it more powerful. A baby, adorable Yoda? That alone is worth two years of ST speculations. The possibilities are endless... and I don't think the movies could capture that feel. The Mandalorian being a movie would likely spoil the baby ahead of time by merchandisers planning to sell toys of that character on release, and the movie will either resolve the mystery of baby Yoda in that episode and leave it off on a sequel hook that may or may not happen. Movies have become very expensive investments that they can no longer afford to be innovative or daring unless they've made a lot of good will with the audience years past. Even the original Star Wars film knew it had to be a standalone film before looking into sequel possibilities.

 

Right. The series route, for a lot of future stuff it seems, will work better. You can explore a story longer and that's why I think a lot of shows, esp. based off books choose that route.

 

If they were able to translate the same quality to a movie format, then yeah, it would have been popular. But who knows how it would have gone, lots of variables.

The more interesting question is- how will the Mando movie be received in the future? They will make a huge movie with the conclusion of the twisted together stories with the 2 additional spinoffs. I think it was a smart approach.

 

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