Top 10 Rejected Plots for Jon Favreau’s Star Wars TV Series
When it was announced that Jon Favreau would be creating a live-action Star Wars TV series for Disney’s new streaming service, fandom erupted with speculation on what the series could be about. Since the initial announcement, Favreau has stated he wrote a variety of different scripts for the series before the final product was green-lit by Disney. We had our sleuths do some digging to find out what plot points Favreau came up with that Lucasfilm vetoed before settling on The Mandalorian.
- 10: A down on her luck door-to-door lightsaber amputation insurance saleswoman is thrown on the ride of a lifetime when her speeder is commandeered by Snap Wexley — with her in it! The series propels Snap, his modified battle droid Mr. Bones, and Moira Jayde, the brunette insurance saleswoman, into a prolonged series of secrets and espionage that she never expected.
- 9: Disgruntled that all the targets he is chasing keep getting claimed before he has the chance to get them himself, Greedo contemplates moving away from the family business of bounty hunting. The Rodian moves in with his brunette human girlfriend and begins to work for her father’s speeder repair shop, but that’s when everything changes for Greedo! Just when he thought he left his old life behind, Greedo discovers his co-worker at the repair shop has a huge bounty on his head, so the cat-and-mouse game begins.
- 8: Reymond and Reyjean are husband and wife living on the junk planet of Jakku. While looking for scrap to trade for drinking money, the couple finds a baby girl who they feel compelled to raise. Hilarity ensues as the couple are hounded by Teedos and other scavengers for the baby to trade in for food portions at Niima Outpost.
- 7: Imagine a cast as diverse as A New Hope but even more diverse because it’s all female. In this series we would follow an all-star cast of brunette females in one of the Rebellion’s top fighter squadrons. Pink Squadron documents the daily lives of top X-wing and Y-wing pilots as they journey from planet to planet liberating them from Imperial control… and stopping for a mani/pedi from time to time.
- 6: A retelling of the classic tale about a farm boy, a scoundrel, a sasquatch, an old wizard, and a pair of bickering robots that join forces to rescue a beautiful princess from the hands of a dark sorcerer and his military commander.
- 5: Before his days of leading the High Council, Yoda was a young man with everyday troubles. Follow the green Jedi through his youth as he deals with Jedi puberty, asking a Jedi girl to the Jedi dance, and deciding to use a Jedi graphing calculator on his Jedi trigonometry test even though his Jedi math teacher told him not to.
- 4: After the Death Star blows up a planet, tons and tons of garbage is created — and who is responsible for cleaning up all the space rocks and debris? The Imperial Department of Janitorial Services that’s who! The focus of the series would have been Mark and Brandon, two Custodian Troopers, as we follow them from one “weapons test site” to the next. The duo discovers there’s more to what they’re cleaning up than what they originally were told.
- 3: Set on the casino planet of Canto Bight, this mockumentary series chronicles the wild cases that plague the Canto Bight Police Department. From ruffians parking their ships on the beach without a permit to hooligans releasing falthiers from their stables, and the usual narcotics bust, the Canto Bight Police have a lot to deal with. Each episode would feature different officers on their nightly beat.
- 2: When their family moves from the wilderness of Endor back to their homeworld of Hays Minor, sisters Rose and Paige Tico have to find a place to fit in and learn to adapt to attending an actual school. The sisters become fast friends with both popular First Order sympathizers and the loser New Republic kids at the same time. The losers convince Rose and Paige to go “undercover” within the First Order clique and their loyalties, romances, and social skills are put to the test in this coming-of-age series.
- 1: Whatever Rian Johnson tells him to do.
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