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.

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

Over the more than 100 years that the Walt Disney Company has existed, it has produced numerous iconic characters. None of them hold a candle to the success of Mickey Mouse, of course, but before Mickey,

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

It was revealed that Disney would be remaking one of the studio's founding figures with a series starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, with Favreau at the helm. Although we're thrilled to see Oswald bound his way back into action,

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.