‘Star Wars’ maestro Jon Favreau admits he’s been taking tips on how to build a universe from Kevin Feige

More and more, it’s becoming readily apparent that Star Wars is following Kevin Feige’s successful MCU formula. The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka are only just the beginning of this rapid expansion into a proper cinematic universe, and if we had any doubts as to its ultimate destination, Jon Favreau has put them to rest that Feige’s genius is indeed at play here.

Favreau and Feige go way back due to their MCU association, but with rumors that the superhero mastermind is taking a detour to a galaxy far, far away, fans are entertaining the possibility of their favorite science-fantasy franchise following in Marvel’s footsteps.

Now, The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau has confirmed to Variety that Feige has indeed been lending his expertise and experience to the up-and-coming MandoVerse, revealing that one cinematic universe “informs” the other in terms of how these Disney execs operate.

“I speak to Kevin Feige regularly, and we’re always watching each other’s stuff. Clearly, I’ve worked in the MCU and I’m dealing with people who worked in Star Wars for a long time. There’s a lot of overlap, and certainly in the fan base. I think one informs the other, that’s just the nature of storytelling, on the technological side as well as stylistically.”

Favreau also doubled down on the initiative to make Star Wars more interconnected, in a way that brings Marvel’s effective storytelling style to mind. The MandoVerse is here to shake things up, and there’s no going back after its incredible success.

“There’s always an opportunity when you have a set of characters and stories that people connect with that you could cross-media into different areas. Marvel does it quite effectively. It’s just a matter of where our time should be spent and what the appetite of the audience is. With all these stories we’re telling, it definitely is a full-time job just keeping this going with what we’re doing now. Television has a much different rhythm and schedule than film does.”

Does that mean future Star Wars movies, of which there seems to be no sign, will share continuity with the Disney Plus shows and vice versa? Regardless, given the reception so far, it’s safe to say the community is far more confident in Jon Favreau’s storytelling techniques and MCU experience than they were in the people who ran the show with the sequel trilogy.