The Mandalorian: 10 Things We Learned From Star Wars Celebration

3. There Are Some Serious Western Vibes

As a franchise, Star Wars owes an awful lot to the western genre. George Lucas' 1977 classic may owe a lot to Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, but it also has a lot in common with the westerns of the sixties and seventies, with the galaxy far, far away being dominated by gunfighters, bounty hunters and crime lords.

It will be these influences that The Mandalorian will lean more heavily into, at least according to those who caught the footage shown at Celebration. Pascal's character is a true gunfighter who shoots his way out of trouble (he even says "he’s got a lot of Clint Eastwood in him"), while the action itself is apparently visceral and chaotic.

Judging from what we know of the premise so far, it certainly seems as though The Mandolorian will be the most western-like Star Wars offering yet. Bounty hunters were a staple of that genre after all, and everything from the look to the tone of the upcoming series seems to take major cues from it.