The Mandalorian The Mandalorian: General Thread

[Loden Greatstorm]

Pedro seems so pumped! I love it.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

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[Pennywise]

‘The Mandalorian’ Actor Giancarlo Esposito Describes the New Technology Used on the ‘Star Wars’ Show

Not only is The Mandalorianthe first substantial live-action Star Wars TV series, but Esposito notes that it’s also the first major Star Wars piece to shoot its soundstage work outside of London—in this case, Southern California:

“I’ve got a great costume. We got great set pieces. I’m not giving anything away because [Jon Favreau] is an artist, truly an artist. [He was] working with George Lucas on this particular piece and making it a piece that we can really relate to now in our world that we’re in. Besides the fact that there are so many Star Wars fans out there that really don’t get enough of this, finally we have a [Star Wars] piece that for the first time ever is shot outside of a London studio.”

Esposito says the show—or his scenes, at least—utilized a Volume for production. A Volume is basically a giant, bare warehouse with blue screens all around and tracking cameras everywhere, so as to capture human performances in a digital environment. This is the manner in which the Avatar movies were shot, as well as the virtual reality sequences from Ready Player One, and it’s usually used for motion-capture:

“Jon Favreau’s brilliant. Technically, this show has a new technology [that’s] never really [been] refined as much as it is right now. We’re in a place called The Volume, where we do most of our acting, where set pieces are brought in, where we can control the physical atmosphere of what is projected on the walls and control how gravity is; you get a feeling that gravity is being played with. This is a show that’s gonna be really fantastic.”

Additionally, in praising Favreau for handing directing reins over to other filmmakers with diverse points of view, Esposito appears to reveal that Favreau worked with George Lucas to create the series in the first place:

“Well you know what’s cool about Mandalorian is you figure a guy who wrote it, who figured it out with George Lucas, would direct every episode. That would be all ego, right? He has amassed some incredible directors from different parts of the planet to give their take on an episode. I find that to be so phenomenal because then we have new and fresh ideas every single episode, coming into this show, that reflect the fans—because the directors are also fans. They’re from Australia, from England, from wherever you are, it reflects their take of their people on how they saw the original and how they’re going to do it as well. So you get new, fresh energy into a piece that is already energetic because of all the stuff that’s going on on the screen, because of all the technology that they’ve worked out. This is going to be a fantastic show.”

 

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"...additionally, in praising Favreau for handing directing reins over to other filmmakers with diverse points of view, Esposito appears to reveal that Favreau worked withGeorge Lucas to create the series in the first place:

“Well you know what’s cool about Mandalorian is you figure a guy who wrote it, who figured it out with George Lucas, ....

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Most intriguing detail^, although not surprised Favreau would want to involve Lucas, and from previous pics we knew he was on set. I do wonder how much input Lucas had?
I think at one point Lucas did have a vision for an ongoing live-action TV series called Star Wars Underworld or something.
Wonder if anything plays off that?

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

 

[Breogan]

Some other Bounty Hunters in the Guild, any favorites from what you've seen?

Bill Burr (LOL!), he has a shoulder mounted gun, my guess he's here to get laughably killed off.
Some fat Grizzly Addams looking dude.
A Trandoshan-like alien (doesn't seem to be Bossk, he gets a bucket like helmet lowered on to him, and is later seen with the group.
Trenchoat wearing one.
A Devaronian
A Twi'lek female
A more mechanical somewhat RA-7 bug like looking droid, appears to be piloting either the Razorcrest or his own ship, and later might be a standoff with the Mando.
A fully animate IG- droid in action, apparently IG-11.

Others?

 

[Breogan]

Re-watching some of that dark blurry footage, it was hard to make out at first, but I just noticed there is an incredible scene where he's fighting Stormtroopers, using the wrist mounted cable launcher, he snags a Trooper by the freakin neck, pulls him back like 20ft' to him, then ends him! Damn!

Also the brutal fight with Cara Dune ends with a pistols drawn stalemate. ....probably their; let's better be allies moment.

 

[Verbal21]

Yeah, I just want a gif of him busting that TK’s helmet. The entire room gasped at that scene. It was so badass.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Re-watching some of that dark blurry footage, it was hard to make out at first, but I just noticed there is an incredible scene where he's fighting Stormtroopers, using the wrist mounted cable launcher, he snags a Trooper by the freakin neck, pulls him back like 20ft' to him, then ends him! Damn!

Also the brutal fight with Cara Dune ends with a pistols drawn stalemate. ....probably their; let's better be allies moment.

Yep.. and he did it wearing the chrome costume <3

 

[Verbal21]

Yep.. and he did it wearing the chrome costume <3

That was so badass when he came out that room kicking ass in the chrome armor.

I wonder if that’s only one of his early upgrades since they said he’d have Deathtrooper armor pieces at some point too. I doubt they’d have shown his final armor already like that.

 

[Pennywise]

I know it's unfair to compare the two, but I'm actually looking forward to The Mandalorian more than Rise of Skywalker. Still really excited for Episode 9, though!

 

[writer0327]

I know it's unfair to compare the two, but I'm actually looking forward to The Mandalorian more than Rise of Skywalker. Still really excited for Episode 9, though!

That's perfectly fair because they are both SW and you will always have something you are looking forward to more than others. I'm excited for all the SW content this year: Resistance, CW, Mando, and TROS!

 

[Pennywise]

That's perfectly fair because they are both SW and you will always have something you are looking forward to more than others. I'm excited for all the SW content this year: Resistance, CW, Mando, and TROS!

Going to start re watching CW and also get into Resistance soon! Pretty great year for SW fans!!!

 

[writer0327]

Going to start re watching CW and also get into Resistance soon! Pretty great year for SW fans!!!

A great year!! And yeah I had just started rewatching all the seasons of CW a couple of weeks before Celebration, but Netflix took it off the service now I gotta either buy the blu-ray's or wait until Disney+

 

[StarLord]

Art by Barry J. Kelly

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Amazing.

 

[Breogan]

Love it. Everyone is kind of thick.
Cara Dune is definitely a bit of a throwback to Aliens Vazquez.

 

[Gothamsknight]

This looks absolutely amazing. Literally worth getting Disney+ even if this was the only show on there haha

 

[BlackFox]

I know it's unfair to compare the two, but I'm actually looking forward to The Mandalorian more than Rise of Skywalker. Still really excited for Episode 9, though!

Its the first thing since ROTJ that actually looks like what I used to think a Star Wars property aimed at adults would look and feel like in my mind, at least its the closest thing I have seen so far, maybe Rogue One was a step in that direction but this looks like it might take it further that way.

I think Episode 9 will be just fine and in JJ its in safer hands than 8 but this looks new and fresh and unique from the "save the universe" usual story line that the films are kind of stuck in a loop with.

 

[writer0327]

This looks absolutely amazing. Literally worth getting Disney+ even if this was the only show on there haha

I said the same thing. And for $6.99/mo there's literally no reason not to get it for at least the run of the series. I spend more than $7 a month on chips and cookies!!

 

[TheVileOne]

Its the first thing since ROTJ that actually looks like what I used to think a Star Wars property aimed at adults would look and feel like in my mind, at least its the closest thing I have seen so far, maybe Rogue One was a step in that direction but this looks like it might take it further that way.

I think Episode 9 will be just fine and in JJ its in safer hands than 8 but this looks new and fresh and unique from the "save the universe" usual story line that the films are kind of stuck in a loop with.

This looks far superior to Rogue One IMO. I just didn't care about the characters that much other than K2SO

 

[StarLord]

Visually, Rogue One was right up my alley. The space battle and the X-Wings on Scarif looked amazing.

 

[BlackFox]

This looks far superior to Rogue One IMO. I just didn't care about the characters that much other than K2SO

I think it suffered like a lot of the movies due to it having to tie into the overall Skywalker saga but I mean more the style and look but yes, this does look better again indeed and can really through some surprises in the mix as well. We shall see and its easy for SW to get overhyped these days but I really want this to be a massive win and make people really love the world again like it deserves, it feels like its easy to take shots at these days and thats a real shame for something that influenced such a huge number of peoples young lives.

 

[writer0327]

This looks far superior to Rogue One IMO. I just didn't care about the characters that much other than K2SO

Yes I agree, Rogue One was visually amazing but the characters were just poorly conceived. Already the characters in Mando feel richer.