Nearly two decades after his homecoming to Disney, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is going to get his own show from the creator of The Mandalorian, Jon Favreau.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: A director noted for combining well-received comedy with groundbreaking technological innovations has just signed on for a new project at Disney, in which a wise-cracking cartoon rabbit will interact with live-action human characters. You guessed it: Jon Favreau’s making an Oswald The Lucky Rabbit TV show.

Decades later, in one of the strangest deals in Hollywood history, Disney CEO Bob Iger would trade the contract of sportscaster Al Michaels to Universal-owned NBC for, among other things, the rights to Oswald the Lucky the Rabbit and all the original cartoons that Walt and his animators had created.

Iron Man director Jon Favreau is developing a new hybrid series about Walt Disney's pre-Mickey Mouse cartoon character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Jon Favreau has been a linchpin of Disney+’s original series slate with flagship The Mandalorian and its offshoots while also taking on classic Disney animated characters on the feature side with the live-action/photorealistically animated The Jungle Book and the photorealistically animated The Lion King.

Jon Favreau is reportedly developing a new hybrid live-action/animated series centered on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The Walt Disney Studios project, which Favreau is writing and producing, marks the latest effort to spotlight one of Disney’s most historically significant characters.

Jon Favreau, director of Disney’s remakes of The Jungle Book and The Lion King as well as creator of The Mandalorian, is taking on another classic character from the Disney library: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.