page_title: Greef Karga
section_title: Conception
hierarchical_section_title: Greef Karga / Concept and creation / Conception
caption_attribution_description: English: Jon Favreau at The Jungle Book Premiere in Sydney at Event Cinema, George Street.
context_page_description: Greef Karga is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise who appears in the Disney+ television series The Mandalorian. He is a leader of the Bounty Hunters' Guild, and provides the show's title character with the bounty that leads him to meet the Child. Greef serves as both an ally and adversary to the Mandalorian at different points in the first season.
  Greef Karga was created by Jon Favreau, the creator and showrunner of The Mandalorian. The character was originally planned only to appear in a handful of episodes, but Favreau and the writers liked the character so much that the part was expanded. Greef is portrayed by Carl Weathers, whom Favreau knew through the Directors Guild of America. Weathers accepted the part under the condition that he could direct future episodes of The Mandalorian in the second season.
  Elements of the character's background have deliberately been kept mysterious, though it was revealed in the first-season finale that he was previously a disgraced government official, and Weathers said his backstory will be further developed in the second season. Weathers performs his own stunts for The Mandalorian.
context_section_description: The character of Greef Karga was created by Jon Favreau, the creator and showrunner of The Mandalorian. He was originally planned to make a brief appearance in the series, but Favreau and the series writers found that they liked the character so much that they expanded his part and gave him a larger role. Greef Karga was first publicly unveiled during the Star Wars Celebration convention in Chicago on April 14, 2019, along with the character Cara Dune. The event also featured teaser footage featuring Greef, a still photo of the character, and included a panel discussion with Weathers and Gina Carano, the actress who portrays Cara, discussing their characters. A full finished scene of Greef offering a bounty to the Mandalorian was also screened. It was the first time Weathers had seen finalized footage from the show, after which he said: "How can you not react to that? It's beautiful hearing the fans react to it."
  During the panel, Weathers said of his character: "He's kind of the head of this guild of bounty hunters. There seems to be a lot of kind of nefarious people." Some publications misspelled Karga's named after the event, with Anthony Gramuglia of Comic Book Resources calling him "Greif Marda", and Variety writer Jordan Moreau misspelling the last name as "Carga". Further footage of the character was included in the first trailer of The Mandalorian. which debuted at the D23 convention on August 23, 2019. According to Adrienne Tyler of Screen Rant, some viewers mistook images of Greef Carga in the trailer for Lando Calrissian, a Star Wars character who dates back to the original Star Wars trilogy. On October 28, a character poster of The Mandalorian solely featuring Greef Karga was released.
caption: Greef Karga was created by Jon Favreau, the creator and showrunner of The Mandalorian.
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "1880", "Image ImageLength": "2816", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 40D", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2017:07:15 00:42:29", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "296", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "1104", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1218", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4259", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/160", "EXIF FNumber": "28/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "250", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2016:03:31 18:42:43", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2016:03:31 18:42:43", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "59/8", "EXIF ApertureValue": "5", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF SubjectDistance": "189/100", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash fired, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "67", "EXIF SubSecTime": "93", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "93", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "93", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1656", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2455", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "1072", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "215379/67", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "32247/10", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Manual Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}