Things are slowly but surely falling into place for The Mandalorian, Jon Favreau's live-action Star Wars series for Disney+ that stars Pedro Pascal as "a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy." The cast is getting wider and wackier (Nick Nolte! Werner Herzog!), Black Panther composer Ludwig Göransson will provide the score, and now, Favreau has confirmed that IG-88—a robotic bounty hunter who first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back—is getting in on the Fett-family action.

The director confirmed the news in an Instagram post along with a photo of the infamous droid bounty hunter, who gained a Fett-like cult following after his brief Empire appearance. IG-88 notably showed up in Darth Vader's bounty hunter job interview alongside the likes of Bossk, Dengar, and the disintegration fiend himself, Boba Fett. He also notably looks like a walking tea kettle who will straight up murder you, and that's pretty dang cool.

What's intriguing is the fact that, if the photo Favreau shared is from set, we're looking at a practical IG-88 and not CGI. The Lion King filmmaker has been teasing a very hands-on, very unique experience in a galaxy far, far away, something that Infinity War directors The Russo Brothers hinted at when we talked to them last month.

"Jon is always at the forefront of cutting-edge tech," Joe Russo told us, "and he is shooting this in a way that no one has ever shot anything ever before. It’s pretty astounding.”

Check out Favreau's Instagram post below.

Here is the official synopsis for The Mandalorian:

After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.