It has been just a few days since The Mandalorian Season 2 wrapped, and we’re nonetheless shocked by the large cameo throughout The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8.
Government producer Jon Favreau appeared on Good Morning America Monday to talk about Luke Skywalker’s look on the finale.
“It was very difficult, as a result of it’s very laborious to maintain a secret these days. There are such a lot of individuals concerned with the method,” he stated, including:
“Each piece of [Season 2] casting leaked, so we had been so scared, proper up till it aired, that our shock cameo was going to leak, too.”
It was actually a wild second, however there was a lot secrecy when Mark Hamil was on the set to reprise the position.
The episode in query discovered Hamil’s alter ego exhibiting up within the nick of time when Moff Gideon’s band of Darkish Troopers geared as much as kill everybody aboard the ship.
Together with his Jedi powers in full pressure, Luke laid waste to the unhealthy guys, and took Grogu away to start out his coaching.
“To have Mark Hamill on set filming and us utilizing no matter expertise we had out there to de-age him and make him appear like he did within the outdated movies” made for a particular second within the historical past of the lore, Favreau added.
Favreau additionally touched on the spinoff teased within the closing moments of the finale, a collection that includes Boba Fett.
Whereas there was a lot hypothesis because the episode aired, Favreau has confirmed The E book of Boba Fett can be separate from The Mandalorian, placing to mattress fears that the collection we have come to know and love is switching issues up.
“That is truly separate from The Mandalorian Season 3,” Favreau stated, including that manufacturing is already underway on the spinoff, “after which we go into manufacturing after that with Season Three of The Mandalorian, with the principle character we all know and love.”
Disney’s packed Investor Day included bulletins of recent Star Wars collection, however the Boba Fett spinoff was lacking, and Favreau stated it was as a result of “we didn’t need to spoil the shock.”
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The Mandalorian Season Three and the Boba Fett collection are set to launch in December 2021.
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