THE MANDALORIAN Casts Pedro Pascal as Title Character

He's no good to us dead.

Deadline has word that the upcoming Disney+ streaming service's live-action Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian is in final negotiations with actor Pedro Pascal to star.  Pascal will play the show's unnamed title character from the planet Mandalore, home to the bounty hunter known as Boba Fett.

The Mandalorian was revealed last month by writer and executive producer Jon Favreau and described as "After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe.  The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order.  We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.…"

Pascal, 43, is a Chilean-American actor best known as Oberyn Martell on the HBO series Game of Thrones and as Agent Whiskey in the movie Kingsman: The Golden Circle.  Pascal's other films include the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984, The Equalizer 2, The Great Wall, and The Adjustment Bureau.  His additional TV appearances include episodes of Narcos, Homeland, Nikita, Charlie's Angels (2011), The Good Wife, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Graceland, Nurse Jackie, The Mentalist, and NYPD Blue.  In another Wonder Woman connection, he played Ed Indelicato in the failed 2011 Wonder Woman pilot starring Adrianne Palicki.

According to the article, the first episode of the series will be directed by Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), while other directors of early episodes include Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones) and actress Bryce Dallas Howard, whose previous directorial work has been limited to short films.