The live action TV show Star Wars is titled: The Mandalorian

Since it was announced in March that Iron Man Director Jon Favreau was putting together a live Star Wars TV show after Return of the jedifans have speculated about it.

Well, do not ask me anymore. Favreau took to Facebook on Wednesday to announce the name of the next series: The mandalorian. (What's unusual for Lucasfilm, the announcement was not immediately posted on StarWars.com – but the fact that Lucasfilm's employees like the publication on Facebook suggests that it's up to 100 % legitimate.)

Here is what it means for the most casual fans: we are going to have a lot of characters dressed like Boba Fett. The bounty hunter (and his clone father of the prequel, Jango Fett) both wore Mandalorian armor – but confusedly, according to the official Star Wars canon, none of the characters were Mandalorian.

The planet of Mandalore, as seen in the animated series Wars of clones and The rebels, was home to a race of mercenaries who tore apart their homeworld in a series of civil wars.

Favreau will tell his story in the 30 years before the rise of the First Order, as shown the force awakens and The last Jedi, and focus on the story of a single shooter.

In other words, it looks like a Space Western.

There is still no announcement of release date for The mandalorian – and with the live-action of Favreau Lion King Coming in the summer of 2019, we think that it will be busy for the foreseeable future.

The announcement is, however, exciting for Star Wars fans. In particular, a subset of fans called Mercal Mandalorian, who builds his own Fett type armor and meets regularly at most geek-friendly conventions.

The reports on a spin-off of Boba Fett have still not been confirmed by Lucasfilm; the fact that Solo Underperforming box office expectations seem to have led Disney and its Star Wars subsidiary to curb such projects, although they are not entirely canceled.

Fett, who says only 28 words throughout the original Star Wars trilogy and has an ignominious ending in the Sarlacc trench in Return of the jedi, never seemed to have much room in his history for derivative material.

Mandalorian culture as a whole, however, seems much more promising – as evidenced by the fact that Wars of clones and The rebels both returned to the planet for multiple story arcs.

Still not announced: no details on the trilogy of films under development by Last jedi director Rian Johnson; details about the trilogy developed by The iron Throne stars David Benioff and Dan Weiss; or any detail on a Star Wars project from anyone who is not a white man.

At least those who are looking for a more diverse representation in the far galaxy, far from it, can realize that each screen representation of Mandalorians so far has shown that they were: people of color.