March 18 (UPI) \u2014<\/span> Back to the Future<\/i> star Christopher Lloyd is making the jump to the Star Wars<\/i> universe for Season 3 of The Mandalorian<\/i>.<\/p>\n Deadline and TheWrap reported Friday that Lloyd is on the call sheet for the Disney+ Star Wars<\/i> series, which is currently filming its third season in Southern California.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Details about Lloyd\u2019s role are being kept secret, though the Hollywood Reporter described the role as guest-starring in nature.<\/p>\n Lloyd is best known for playing time-traveling scientist Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future<\/i> trilogy (1985-90). He also played the villainous Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock<\/i> (1984).<\/p>\n The 83-year-old Lloyd has won multiple Emmy Awards, including for the comedy series Taxi<\/i> (1978-83). Most recently, he appeared in the Bob Odenkirk action film Nobody<\/i> for Universal, as well as the George Clooney-directed The Tender Bar<\/i>.<\/p>\n The Mandalorian<\/i> has a history of bringing in characters from iconic franchises. Michael Biehn, who starred in The Terminator<\/i>, made an appearance in a memorable Season 2 episode.<\/p>\n The Mandalorian<\/i> launched in November 2019 as one of Disney+\u2019s flagship shows. Season 2 ran in late 2020, with its first spinoff, The Book of Boba Fett<\/i>, debuting in December.\n<\/p>\n No release date has been announced for the third season of The Mandalorian<\/i>. Lucasfilm is currently preparing for the May 25 debut of Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/i>, starring Ewan McGregor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christopher Lloyd, shown Dec. 18, 2017, is best known for playing time-traveling scientist Dr. Emmett Brown in the \u201cBack to the Future\u201d trilogy. File Photo by Chris Chew\/UPI | License Photo March 18 (UPI) \u2014 Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd is making the jump to the Star Wars universe for Season 3 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}