Christopher Lloyd will be in the third season of The Mandalorian

Christopher Lloyd will be in the third season of The Mandalorian

Great Jupiter! Christopher Lloyd is about to add another sci-fi saga to his very long career. The actor, made known above all for the role of Doc in Back to the Future, or the bewildered scientist who develops a time machine by mounting it on a DeLorean, is in fact ready to participate in the filming of the third season of The Mandalorian. To reveal it in the past few hours was The Hollywood Reporter with an exclusive news. Obviously, there is still no detail on the nature of his role but surely it will be an appearance as a guest star, what is known for now is only that the third chapter of the events of the Mandalorian and the little Grogu are in the phase of filming in these weeks in Southern California.

Lloyd, now 84, is famous for having participated in the Back to the Future trilogy alongside Michael J. Fox from 1985 to 1990, but his career is long-lived and very diverse. His debut took place on television, where he particularly distinguished himself in sitcoms such as Taxi, which also earned him several Emmy wins. At the cinema he has participated in films such as The postman always rings twice, Gentlemen the crime served, Who framed Roger Rabbit? and in the two Addams Family films in the 1990s, where he played Uncle Fester. As for science fiction, he also participated in Star Trek 3: In search of Spock in 1984, while after a few years of minor roles recently his figure has returned to centrality thanks to his participation in films such as I am nobody next to Bob. Odenkirk and The Bar of Great Expectations directed by George Clooney.

Christopher Lloyd's landing in The Mandalorian is therefore not a surprise, also because the series itself has accustomed us to some excellent cameos: in addition to director Wim Wenders in the very first episodes, we have for example also seen the participation of Michael Biehn, star of Terminator and Alien. After the parenthesis of The Book of Boba Fett, which served as a link after the events of the second season, a real third season of the very first Star Wars television series is expected by the end of the year, even if there are no dates. precise. Now that bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) is reunited with the famous Baby Yoda, we need to understand where the routes of the galaxy will take them. Among the other confirmations of the cast should also be Carl Weathers and Giancarlo Esposito, the latter in the role of the fearsome Moff Gideon. But before we go back to the adventures of The Mandalorian, there's a lot of anticipation for another serial spin-off, Obi-Wan Kenobi, coming to Disney + on May 25th.