The Mandalorian season 3 is reportedly filming sooner than you’d think
A new listing page says filming begins very soon
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We already knew that newStar WarsTV showThe Book of Boba Fettwas being filmed for Disney Plus just beforeThe Mandalorian season 3, and now a new listing suggests a filming date for the latter isn’t that far away.
According to the Film and Television Industry Alliance’sproduction listingfor season 3 of Mando, the next set of episodes starts filming on April 5, 2021 (thanks,r/StarWarsLeaks). The Book of Boba Fett has a confirmed release date of December 2021, but The Mandalorian season 3 does not have a date yet – it’s widely expected to debut at some point in 2022.
The Mandalorian takes a long time to make, which probably comes as no surprise given how effects-heavy the show is. When the first season debuted in November 2019, the second was already filming. Season 2 of The Mandalorian finished filming just before Covid-19 hit in early March 2020, before debuting in October of that year.
The Book of Boba Fett had already begun filming by late 2020.
There’s a long wait ahead, then, but our hope is that season 3 will debut in the first half of next year. In the meantime, Lucasfilm is apparently already filming the Star Wars TV shows Andor and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Read about all thenew Star Wars TV shows and movies in the works here.
That’s a long to wait and find out what happened afterLuke Skywalkerwent off to train Grogu, the cute specimen variously referred to as Baby Yoda and The Child.
Why Star Wars overload seems unlikely
Out of Disney’s Investor Day in 2020, when it was announced that10 Star Wars TV shows and 10 Marvel serieswere in the works for Disney Plus, the reaction from some circles was a little negative. It’s true that on paper, this is a lot – but the reality is that these series take a long time to make. The gap between The Mandalorian season 2’s finale and The Book of Boba Fett will still be a year long.
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That could change in 2022, if we see Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mando season 3 arrive within the same 12 months. Given that those shows are all pretty different from each other in terms of their timeframe in the Star Wars universe and the creators working on them, though, hopefully they’ll be different enough that we never really stop and think about it that much.
Samuel is a PR Manager at game developer Frontier. Formerly TechRadar’s Senior Entertainment Editor, he’s an expert in Marvel, Star Wars, Netflix shows and general streaming stuff. Before his stint at TechRadar, he spent six years at PC Gamer. Samuel is also the co-host of the popular Back Page podcast, in which he details the trials and tribulations of being a games magazine editor – and attempts to justify his impulsive eBay games buying binges.
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