Rangers of the New Republic

Rangers of the New Republic was a planned live-action television series. It was announced on December 10, 2020, and would have been executive produced by Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau and starred Gina Carano as the character Cara Dune. As of November 2021, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that the series was canceled, saying that no scripts had been written and that concepts would be absorbed into future episodes of The Mandalorian.
==Official description==
Set within the timeline of The Mandalorian, this new live-action series from executive producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni will intersect with future stories and culminate into a climactic story event.
==Development==
In February of 2020, Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted in an earnings call that spinoff series featuring characters from The Mandalorian were in development. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced that Rangers of the New Republic and Ahsoka were among those series during a Disney Investor Day presentation on December 10 of that year. She stated that they and "future stories" would be take place in The Mandalorian timeline—which is set around 9 ABY—and "culminate in a climactic story event."
On February 10, 2021, The Hollywood Reporter reported that actress Gina Carano—who had played Marshal of the New Republic Cara Dune in The Mandalorian—was originally slated to be revealed as the star of a spinoff series during the 2020 Disney Investor Day presentation. On the same day, Lucasfilm denounced "abhorrent" social media posts by Carano in a public statement and confirmed that Carano was not currently employed by the company, nor would she be employed in any future projects. On May 20, in an interview with Dave Filoni, Variety reported that the series was no longer in active development. In an interview with Kathleen Kennedy in the January 2022 issue of Empire, it was confirmed that Rangers had indeed been intended to star Carano as Cara Dune and that the series was canceled. Kennedy added that scripts were never written for the series, and concepts and ideas from it would be incorporated into future episodes of The Mandalorian. On February 6, 2024, Carano filed a lawsuit for discrimination and wrongful termination against Disney and Lucasfilm, seeking to be recast in Star Wars and receive compensation for Rangers of the New Republic cancelation.
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