Disney CEO Bob Iger recently spoke about the benefits of Disney+ as a storytelling platform, particularly when it comes to expanding and broadening the Star Wars universe. On a recent episode of The Star Wars Show (as noticed by Slashfilm ), Iger said that fluidity between TV and movies could allow for easy crossovers - with a Disney+ show, like The Mandalorian, possibly getting a movie.

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"I don’t look at it as just television, I look at it as an extension of Star Wars storytelling." Iger said. "What Disney+ has given us the ability to do is to do just that, is to bring Star Wars to people in new ways, and to bring new Star Wars to people. It’s not the same places or the same characters. Just look at Mandalorian. While, obviously, there’s a lot shared, there’s a lot that’s really fresh, and I love that.""I love the ability to really be agnostic in terms of what platform it’s being made for," Iger continued. "And so it could be, down the road, that a TV show becomes a movie and a movie becomes a TV series. I’m not making any announcements here or not, but I think it’s important for us to be agnostic.”With The Mandalorian's first season over, and Season 2 headed to us in fall 2020 , there's still the Obi-Wan series on the horizon, along with an untitled Cassian Andor series in development . In fact, the Obi-Wan series, starring Ewan McGregor, was originally intended to be a movie For more Star Wars news, check out how Rise of Skywalker's Visual Dictionary answers a ton of key plot questions how Emperor Palpatine is still alive, and why Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico had a reduced role in Episode IX

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