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JON FAVREAU: We're trying to draw
from all over from Star Wars.

A lot of the stuff that we're doing,
a lot of the designs and things

are things from old video games,
like the incinerator trooper.

Uh, the E-Web cannon goes back to,
I think, Empire Strikes Back.

Play it like it's twice as heavy.

And, uh, we got
the death troopers from Rogue...

Rogue One, so from the sequels
and the other properties.

We're using a lot of stuff
that was built for other movies,

like aliens and suits and things.

So, um, in the spirit of television,
we're using resources from the features.

We go down prop rabbit holes all the time,
trying to figure out...

Can we please talk
about the ice cream maker?

FILONI: Talk about your ice cream maker.

It's a specific type of ice cream maker.
Hard to get.

The ice cream maker
is the most specific...

It was the camtono,
the thing he carried the Beskar around in.

Bryce, you got such good acting.
You're acting interested in this.

I am. I'm very curious
about this real ice cream maker.

-FAVREAU: It was in your episode.
-It was.

It was in your episode.

FILONI: You didn't get the camtono,
so you don't know the joy of this prop.

No, no.

FILONI: Allow Jon
to regale you the joy of this.

To me, it's the deepest, deepest cut.

This is based on Willrow Hood's
famous ice cream maker.

There it is.

There's a bunch of people at Celebration

that dress up as a character
that they've named Willrow Hood...

FILONI: It is. I don't know
where the name comes from. Continue.

FAVREAU:
It's somebody running in the background

at Cloud City as everything's going crazy,

running with a prop that... Clearly,
he was a deep background character.

So it's just an off-the-shelf
ice cream maker.

So it's a bucket
with a little motorized thing on it

-that you plug in to make ice cream.
-FILONI: It's amazing.

FAVREAU: And this thing has become
such a focus of the fans

that they have people who dress up
and find that ice cream maker

so that they can go to Celebration
in the jumpsuit...

It is hard to get it.

-FAVREAU: It's so sought-after.
-It's hard to find the ice cream maker.

FAVREAU: And then they have...
It's a highlight of Star Wars Celebration

that they have the running...
What's it called?

-"It's a highlight."
-The running...

-Might be a stretch...
-FAVREAU: What is it?

It's the running of the Willrow Hoods.

They're gonna expect you to do it now,
once this gets out.

Get your jumpsuit ready.

-Some make their own and go through.
-FILONI: They'll make you one.

With everybody dressed as stormtroopers,
as Mandalorians, as rebels...

And then you have a bunch
of orange jumpsuits...

Running with ice cream makers
through the Celebration.

And everybody goes berserk. They love it.

Because if that's not true,

if that's not the essence of being a fan,
I don't know what is.

FAMUYIWA: Yeah. Oh, my gosh.
HOWARD: Yeah.

-FAVREAU: I was like...
-He has an action figure.

FAVREAU: He has an action figure, too.
He has all sorts of fan fiction.

FILONI: There's been such outcry.
He got an action figure.

FAVREAU: So we took the ice cream maker
and made it the thing like in Pulp Fiction

when you open the...
The golden briefcase light.

This is a big, big deal.

We reveal what was inside.

But I love, with this show, they had...

At the same time we're doing this,
there's the big Episode IX going on,

and ours was like, "Let's take..."

In my mind, it was like,
"Let's take the most obscure characters

"that were right on the edge of not...

"Of being kind of not that cool and not...

"That you really have to love Star Wars."

FILONI: Peg-warmers.
FAVREAU: To give permission to yourself

to like these things
and to take the characters

that are normally deep in the background
and put them center stage.

So that's why IG-11 was like IG-88.

He was the most absurd
Bounty Hunter that you saw.

They clearly were just
stacking things up behind Boba Fett.

DARTH VADER: You are free
to use any methods necessary,

but I want them alive.

FILONI: They built him out of parts
of the old cantina set from A New Hope.

"What's left? You gotta build us a robot."

But then we, as children, were like,
"That's the coolest assassin robot.

-"It must be a killer Bounty Hunter."
-It's standing there.

It doesn't move
because it's so badass.

It's so stoic.

No, it didn't move
'cause it was bolted to the floor.

It didn't have feet designed for it.

Subparagraph 16 of
the Bondsman Guild protocol waiver

compels you to immediately
produce said asset.

IG Unit! Stand down.

Affirmative.

-Taika's voice on him is amazing.
-It's so funny.

That's Taika Waititi on there.

Stop that.

Identify yourself!

I am IG-11.

I am this child's nurse droid and require
that you remand him to me immediately.

Hey. (GROANING)

And Jon's like, "With these elements,
we could launch Disney+."

(ALL LAUGHING)

But there is something with satire
or with storytelling,

where you take the most mundane
and elevate it,

and if you're taking something
that's really elevated,

make it on a small scale.

Like, bring it down to the grit of it.

(GROANS)

So the Quarren is...
What's a Quarren, Dave?

Explain, you'll do a better job of it.

You at first see it
in Return of the Jedi, in Jabba's palace.

It's one of the aliens.
They were called "Squid Head."

It's your choice, but I warn you
not to underestimate my powers.

His species is the Quarren,
and they hate Ackbar's Mon Calamari.

It's a trap!

You can watch that whole war
in Clone Wars.

The two aquatic species fighting...

They don't get along.

It's like Siamese fighting fish.

But the first takes we did of our
Quarren were almost too real, remember?

That was a big thing.

So we had the first Quarren,
and it looked like Davy Jones with...

-Everything going on.
-Yeah.

They're gonna know that's not...

-It feels like we're reinventing.
-FILONI: It's too much.

FAVREAU: The blurrgs are from where?
Where do the blurrgs come from?

-Pixomondo did the blurrgs.
-But where did it come from in Star Wars?

It's a deep cut.

Part of our goal was to take...
How do you describe it?

That our big brother took all...

FILONI: Yeah.
FAVREAU: All the good toys away.

Our older brother took all the cool toys,
and then we got left with

Ugnaughts and Jawas and other peg-warmers,

but somehow, we got a Boba Fett figure,

and then we painted him silver
and made him cooler,

'cause sometimes you make it your own.

Here's the strange thing about blurrgs.
I don't know why

every Star Wars story I've been
associated with has a blurrg in it.

FAVREAU: You had blurrgs in Clone Wars.

-And Rebels.
-FILONI: In Rebels.

You said, "I'm gonna put blurrgs in."
Like you were doing something nice,

and I'm like,
"These things don't make any sense."

And Ugnaughts, right?
What's the Ugnaughts from?

-Cloud City.
-Cloud City. That's right.

FAVREAU: They're like little worker bees
over there.

And IG-88's actually in the corner,
shot in that scene.

And we made him like our Yoda.
We made him our mentor...

He's, like, the spiritual center.

I have spoken.

FILONI: There was a funny story there,

where originally...
People don't know this.

You had the idea
the Ugnaught didn't speak English

and we had these actors
temping the scene... (LAUGHS)

I wrote it. It was gonna be subtitled.

And Ugnaught was speaking Jawa
back to the Jawas.

With a pig...
It sounded like a pig talking.

And Dee Baker, my friend from Clone Wars,

was doing the temp voicing and was like...
(SNORTING)

Snorting and stuff
while he was doing it...

And then we have,
"We have traveled a long way." (SNORTING)

-The Jawas are like...
-For 15 minutes.

I'm like, "We can't do this."

They're going back and forth like this,

and you and I are sitting there
in the edit, watching it,

-and we're both really quiet.
-And thank you for not...

FILONI: But without that...

-You let me find my way to it on my own.
-I liked it. It was strange.

"Is this gonna work?"

I didn't know if this was live-action.

No. Plus, it's also
a dude and a bucket for his head

and a dude with a pig mask on
and then a Jawa.

There was nothing to cut to
with any human expression,

and then there were subtitles.

FILONI: Another interesting trivia bit,
the way this show runs,

the first human face that I ever shot
in live-action was Werner Herzog.

In that story, there was nobody...

-It was good.
-FILONI: And Tate and the guys in the bar.

But, really, the first lens
I looked through and saw a human being,

and I'm looking at Werner Herzog,

-"What is this?"
-FAVREAU: You could do worse.

His enthusiasm outweighs his discretion.

If you see this,
you remember it from New Hope.

That light pattern,
you remember it from New Hope.

Please. No. No, no.

We're doing fan service, creatively.
Like, would this be cool?

For those who know, they'll appreciate it.

Those who don't, it looks like
a cool Star Wars thing.

Now in walks this... Or here's a vehicle.

We should make it
the Kenner Troop Transport,

where six stormtroopers stand on the side.

That wasn't based on the movies.
Let's put it in.

Somebody's gotta torch the bar.
Let's use the incinerator stormtrooper.

Can we do that? We don't have one. Paint
it like this. We're painting, it's there.

And then who you cast also.

People who are either fans of Star Wars

or people who have a body of work
from other things

that when they come
into the Star Wars world,

the fans are like, "That's cool."

So, let's just do this job.

We get in, we get out, and you don't have
to see our faces anymore.

Because we're not George Lucas,
because we're also...

We're just filmmakers
who grew up watching it,

just because we say it
doesn't mean it's cool.

We're definitely thinking about,

how is this gonna play with fans?

It has to work on a story level
and a character level.

Tiny.

FILONI: And then the fan gets
the little bit of gold in there,

and then people... What is that?
Why are you excited?

That's because it's this droid
that was in Empire Strikes Back,

it just stood there and looked menacing,
but I had the action figure of it.

And you're like,
"What? Did it do anything?"

No, didn't do anything,
but it did something in my mind.

And there's many layers of that.

But to me, it's just using the universe
that was created.

It's not taking it
in a different direction.

It's not just throwing a term in there
for the sake of winking,

saying, "See? I get it."
That's something that takes practice.

(ALIEN SPEAKING HUTTESE)

Goodness gracious me!

(DROID SPEAKS ALIEN LANGUAGE)

(BEEPS)

(DROID SPEAKS ALIEN LANGUAGE)

(WHIRRING)

Well, there are two banthas down there,
but I don't see any...

Wait a second.

They're Sand People, all right.
I can see one of them now.

(YELLS AGGRESSIVELY)

TORO CALICAN: Tusken Raiders.

I heard the locals
talking about this filth.

THE MANDALORIAN:
Tuskens think they're the locals.

-(TORO CALICAN SCOFFS)
-Everyone else is just trespassing.

Whatever they call themselves,
they best keep their distance.

THE MANDALORIAN: Yeah?
Why don't you tell them yourself?

(TUSKENS YELLING)

AT-ST.

THE MANDALORIAN: Imperial walker.
What's it doing here?

I don't know.

FAVREAU: The AT-ST. You wanna
talk about the AT-ST at all?

BLUFF: Let John talk about the AT-ST.
FAVREAU: Where'd that appear?

-That's from Return of the Jedi.
-Return of the Jedi. Oh.

There's a chicken walker that's different

-in Empire Strikes Back.
-FAVREAU: We're going deep nerd now.

What's the difference between
a chicken walker and a AT-ST?

I didn't know this.

In Empire Strikes Back, there is, I think,
just one shot of a two-legged walker

running around that I think
Joe Johnston did just kind of...

FAVREAU: On a whim. Uh-huh.
KNOLL: As a lark.

But George really liked it,
and then later in Return of the Jedi,

it got upgraded to the full-on... Yeah.

FAVREAU: Again,
one of the least intimidating

pieces of mech in the originals
that we upgraded

to the Big Bad
in our Seven Samurai episode.

THE MANDALORIAN: Go. Go!

(BOTH PANTING)

Well, and I like the work you did on that,

and the animation because you had done
a lot of tests for Rogue,

where they would animate the CG walker
right over footage of the old stop motion.

And if you don't get that kind of hitch
in its giddyup, it just...

it doesn't feel like the walker.

It needs to have that kind of
staccatoed motion.

'Cause now we could do it smooth,
but it just doesn't...

It lacks the character,

and part of our walker is that
it's supposed to be more like a creature

than it's supposed to be
the old military one,

'cause ours is beat up and repurposed.

THE MANDALORIAN: Just a few more steps.

Both the blurrg and the AT-ST began
their life as stop-motion...

Their cinematic life
as stop-motion creations,

so it was useful on the blurrg to go back
and actually do some stop motion

to kind of figure out...

Stop motion doesn't look strictly real,

just because of artifacts
inherent in that technique,

but there's a magic to it,

and so figuring out
how to tease out some of that magic

but still have something
that feels like a modern visual effect

that's gonna blend well
with live-action is super tricky.

-Yeah.
-FILONI: Something we can't jump over,

either, is in 3,
we have an array of Mandalorians

rocketing out of the sky and landing,

which is something for me, as a kid,
I would've just died to see.

Because we all ordered
the Boba Fett figure

by sending in our proofs of purchase
from the back of the package,

and we got this figure
before he ever appeared on-screen.

You could get Boba Fett in the mail
before the movie came out,

and the only time we'd seen him
was the Holiday Special,

which you know, 'cause you put the gun in.

Let's talk about that gun.

Yeah. The fork gun
from the Holiday Special,

that Boba Fett carries.

Yes, that was one of the deep cuts
that we had,

the zapper that he uses to corral his...

Whatever that dinosaur
he's riding in the swamp is.

I remember when you were all proud
when George came to set.

-Did you see the gun we have?
-Yeah.

Do you know that that was an homage to...
That's canon, right?

-You wrote it.
-Not really.

You said, "We put that gun
in from the Holiday Special."

And he goes, "I had
nothing to do with that."

(ALL LAUGH)

(SPEAKING ALIEN LANGUAGE)

(FERRYMAN SPEAKING KUBAZIAN)

THE MANDALORIAN:
I need passage to the yards.

(SPEAKS KUBAZIAN, PLAYS NOTE)

(GROWLS)

(SQUEAKING)

(DROID CHATTERING)

What? It's just a little mousey.

-Come here, little mousey.
-MAYFELD: Burg.

-Mousey, come here. Come here.
-MAYFELD: Burg.

(LIGHTSABERS WHOOSHING)

FAVREAU: We pulled in
for the final episode...

The darksaber.

So the way the darksaber came about was
I was a character on Clone Wars,

a Mandalorian named Pre Vizsla.

This lightsaber was stolen
from your Jedi Temple

by my ancestors during the fall
of the Old Republic.

Since then, many Jedi have died
upon its blade.

Prepare yourself to join them.

(GRUNTS)

-It's like a katana. It's pretty cool.
-FILONI: It's really cool.

And you're figuring out
how to show it on-screen.

John and I are working on that.

We've gone around and around.

FAVREAU: So how do you make a thing
that has no light but just has...

But what we're digging is actually that...

Much like the old lightsabers,
that there's actually a practical element

that has weird anomalies
that makes it look...

That makes it look like
those reflective dowels that they used.

And actually, one of them
is a spinning reflective dowel

-for the old one?
-FILONI: That's something

we have to kind of experience,
which is when we do take things that...

It came from The Clone Wars.

We have to think that, in that show,
they are stylized

and that that was an animated style
of something from live-action,

and it's not about doing
any of those things one-to-one,

but it's about saying,

-"That's based on something."
-How'd he have done it?

FILONI: That's through the lens...
FAVREAU: How would George do it?

OPERATOR: (ON RADIO)
This is Mos Eisley Tower.

We are tracking you.

Head for bay three-five, over.

THE MANDALORIAN: Copy that.

Locked in for three-five.

Come along, R2.

(SPEAKING ALIEN LANGUAGE)

TORO CALICAN: Picked up this Bounty Puck
before I left the Mid Rim.

Fennec Shand.

ROTH: In episode 105,
we get to go back to Tatooine,

and we go inside the Mos Eisley Cantina,
which was awesome.

(CHUCKLES) It was great.
The art department did an amazing job.

A-mark.

You're walking into
a bit of history there.

WOMAN: Camera, and action!

JONES: We were treating that
like a museum piece.

ROTH: In the original bar in Tatooine,
they had green on this side,

and they had red on that side,

and so every detail in here
has been duplicated.

So that's what I'm doing.
Hope you guys appreciate it.

JONES: It should look very faithful
to the original.

We did a little bit less
than half of the build,

and the rest was on the screens,
so unless the screens were up,

you were just seeing a little part of it,

and then, click, you turn on the switch,
there it is.

ROTH: We were able to build
a recreation of EV-9D9,

which is now the bartender droid.

FAVREAU: Mark Hamill came in
and voiced the droid,

who had appeared in Return of the Jedi.

Unfortunately, the Bounty Guild
no longer operates from Tatooine.

He now serves drinks.

It's smoother if you're slower,
but if you want to do a quicker...

And I really liked this aspect,

that in the original,
droids weren't allowed in the bar.

-Hey. We don't serve their kind here.
-What?

ROTH: Now? Yeah, sure.

Droids are working the bar,
and for all we know,

they might own the bar,
so I thought that was a great twist.

And then I'm driving R5-D4
through the scene.

It doesn't get much better than that.

THE MANDALORIAN: Hey, droid, I'm a hunter.
I'm lookin' for some work.

FILONI: R5-D4 was great

because we had that particular type
of droid, but he wasn't painted like R5.

And then I was looking at it,
and we were gonna shoot Mos Eisley,

I went to Josh and I said, "Can you
repaint this thing to look like R5?"

And he said, "Yeah, sure. Why?"
And I said,

"'Cause I don't think
he ever got off Tatooine.

"I think he's been stuck there
and is probably working."

FAVREAU: There's a lot of EU stuff about,
that he's a Jedi special...

FILONI: Yeah, I know.

FAVREAU: But you even made him paint
the restraining bolt thing.

FILONI: The busted restraining bolt, yeah.

And where his motivator got shot.

This R2 unit has a bad motivator. Look.

Where was his bad motivator?

-This one?
-Yeah.

Gunk that up
and let it come down the side,

-just oil and grease stains on this guy.
-MAN: Gotcha.

FILONI: We made it a little burned up
on top of his head.

And now he's in the cantina.

Behind me is a TIE fighter
in its landing position,

with landing gear out,
which hasn't ever been shown before,

and the wings are gonna be added in CG,

where we fold them
based on Doug Chiang's drawing.

It was a design that was done years ago
that was never used,

and we saw it and decided we wanted
to pull that into our story.

I think my favorite moment of just
shooting this and being involved was...

It was the first day that I was shooting.

It was coming onto
the outside set, the backlot,

and kind of in my head,
I'd seen the previs,

but you know,
none of it's real until you're on set

and I could walk around the corner
and there's 60 stormtroopers

just standing around in that courtyard,

and I just remember walking past
and just going, (TREMBLING) "Okay."

(ALL LAUGHING)

And instantly, I was like,
get my phone out so...

No one's gonna see these.

Stormtroopers! Oh, my God, so amazing.

I kept taking photos of stormtroopers,

and I was so impressed,
'cause there were so many of them.

What was that gang?

What's that secret?
It was probably no secret.

-The 501st?
-WAITITI: They brought those guys in.

And they were...
Their suits looked amazing.

Well, we were in a production meeting
preparing for that shoot,

we were around the table
going through the script,

we said,
"How many stormtroopers did you get?"

They're like, "We got..." What was it? 30?

-Yeah, it wasn't a lot.
-FAVREAU: It was a lot of like...

It sounded good
when we planned it long ago...

But we had maxed out the costumes.

-Yeah.
-CHOW: It was the costumes.

FAVREAU: It was the costumes.
CHOW: Yeah.

So it was like, what are we doing?

Then he and I leaned
into each other, 'cause it was...

I knew that George Lucas, when he
would do an appearance or something,

he could call up the 501st, and he'd have
100 stormtroopers show up for an event.

-FILONI: Yeah, easily.
-And I was like, "Could we call them?"

He knows 'em all, and he was...

-Now I may not remember.
-FILONI: Yeah.

-But you already were in.
-I was already in, yeah.

So you were like, "Well, let's see.
It's Southern California...

"They'll fly down, come in.
I could probably get about..."

And he made some calls,
and they showed up.

But the funny thing was
that they showed up,

and they didn't know
what they were coming to.

What calls do they usually get?

They get calls for...
They'll do premieres.

If you see them at a Star Wars function,
appear, a lot of times, the 501st,

they do, on their own,
visits to hospitals.

They do a lot of charity things.

They do a wide array of things,
and they are called often to represent

for the company at public appearances
related to Star Wars.

So Lucasfilm will call them up
if they're...

If they're at a convention
or an appearance or there's a parade

or events where they want background
stormtroopers. They know that...

-But not a movie.
-HOWARD: Yeah.

So they show up not knowing where
they're going, and they literally are

driving them into the middle
of the set in front of camera,

and they were realizing
that they're gonna be in the show.

In their armor that they made themselves.

-That's significant, right?
-FILONI: Yeah.

Because suddenly, the dream of anybody

that makes your own suit
of stormtrooper armor

is that you would have
an actual screen-used prop, gun or mask,

but the minute
you walked on our set and got shot,

your armor that you made
became screen-used, which is pretty cool.

It's episode 108, the big finale.

We got our whole cast here.
We got the 501st.

We got them on camera
as part of our background.

It's been a real treat, real fun.

The 501st Legion is the world's
largest fan-based costuming group.

We do things mainly for charity.

We're bad guys doing good.

But we're also big kids,
so we do this for children

and these children as well.

We love dressing up and costuming
and playing the part.

JEFF LEONE: My armor is about
six years old, oddly enough,

but I do take care of it, because I invest
a lot of time in that kind of stuff.

It starts off as
a piece of white ABS plastic,

and then they're vac-formed into shapes
to fit your body type, basically.

A lot of it's fairly generic.
It comes in a certain size,

but you have to shim it and shape it
and get it to conform to your body.

Otherwise, you don't look right,
you don't articulate correctly.

You're not gonna look like a stormtrooper.

You'll look like something
trying to be a stormtrooper.

MICHAEL BENDER: Lucasfilm put out
a last-minute call, yeah, and here it is.

We were able to get some folks
from our garrison in the Bay Area

and bring a few people down to join...

-A few hundred miles down here.
-...our friends in SoCal.

You guys came down from San Francisco?

(ALL SPEAK INDISTINCTLY)

All right. Go, Oakland.

(ALL EXCLAIMING)

TODD: We got here, we got into our armor,
we got bussed over to the set.

It was cool, 'cause the PAs were like,

"Hold on. You're gonna have a moment."

And then we walked around
and saw what we were walking into,

and everybody lost it.

I don't even know what to say.

I had absolutely no clue until
he told me this morning what it was.

I just thought it was an event,
a high-profile event.

It's my first one here, and it's a doozy.

(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
This one's big. I had no idea.

-Making Star Wars.
-I had no idea. None.

FAVREAU: So they walk onto our set,
and they're right in the middle

of the filming of The Mandalorian,
which they'd been hearing rumors about,

and it was fascinating.

ESPOSITO: We'll do some marching today.
We'll look good, crisp, and feel good.

-MAN: Yeah.
-Right on! Right on.

MANUEL: You're walking in, and seeing
all the props and the detailing

in every single door,
every single accessory,

and it's like, "I'm in Star Wars."

Like, this is a dream.

-A-mark!
-TODD: We're all like,

"Oh, my God. This is real."

I think all of us started
crying a little bit.

It's good we wear helmets.
Nobody could see us cry.

FAVREAU: You bring in the 501st,
they're professionals.

And lo and behold,
I think 25 people show up.

In addition to the stunt people
and the people in costumes,

we had over 50 of them.

Members of my escort
have completed assembly

of an E-Web heavy repeating blaster.

It looks huge.
Fills up our entire set. Looks great.

And they know exactly
how to act like a stormtrooper.

FILONI: You direct them,
but they know how to move.

They know how to stand.

They are stormtroopers.

They were wonderful. They did a great job.

We got so much energy from them.

-MAN: Action.
-You will have until nightfall.

FAVREAU: And they could not have been
better, more professional, cooler.

We'll take some pictures with you.
We'll hold onto them...

-We'll give them at the end once it's out.
-Cool.

MAN 1: Thank you.
MAN 2: Thank you.

FAVREAU: You had people
who were all walks of life.

You had mothers and daughters,
once they popped the helmets off.

I'm Rick Alpi, TK 50311,
and I'm from Mission Viejo.

Jacko Luong, TK 88808,
from Huntington Beach.

My name's Mark Edwards. My TK number
is TK 7328. I'm from Los Angeles.

My name is Jacob Gonzales, TK 86267
of the Inland Empire squad.

Chris Elguera, TK 87007,
part of the Inland Empire squad.

Sam Newcomer,
also known as TIE Racer, TK 54548.

The camaraderie is more important than
anything, and then love for Star Wars.

We all have a common bond
that binds us together, like the Force.

JACKO: It's come full circle
from watching New Hope,

dreaming about being a stormtrooper

to actually being a stormtrooper
in front of the camera.

Just amazing.

Let's take some pictures.

Say, "whiskey"!

Maybe let's finish on talking
about the X-wing pilots.

-Oh, no.
-Yeah.

HICKEL: Both of you
have been X-wing pilots.

-Have you?
-HICKEL: Yeah, John's been...

John appears
in Battle of Yavin, don't you?

-Yeah, I'm actually all the X-wing pilots.
-HICKEL: You're in Phantom Menace, too.

You have a close-up in Phantom Menace.

I worked on some special edition shots.

FILONI: Wait, wait,
I'm worried about this one.

-Jon looks worried.
-You're all of them?

You're gonna ruin it for him.

The CG model of the X-wing,
there was a figure, that's my head.

FAVREAU: Every time. No close-up.

HICKEL: You're on-screen
in Phantom Menace.

KNOLL: I am the only Naboo pilot
you see get killed.

In The Mandalorian,
we have a few X-wing pilots.

One of them is Deb Chow,
who you mentioned.

-One is Deb.
-One of them is Dave Filoni,

-and one's Rick Famuyiwa.
-The leader of the squadron.

It looks like something from the '70s,
that sequence.

FILONI: Your direction for me was,
"Act disinterested and bored."

And I was like, "I can do that."

I got a clear signal
on the tracking beacon.

That I could...
But honestly, it was critical.

-It's great, because you ever see...
-FILONI: It was critical advice.

Pilots, no matter how nervous,

if you're on a bad flight,

they sound so calm,
talking to the military people.

Like in Apocalypse Now,
you hear them calling in the...

This is my day.
I'm trying to shoot second unit for Rick.

I'm out in the mud, in the pit,

and yet, all day, I know looming
is this X-wing pilot shoot,

and Rick and Deb and I
have been texting each other all week.

"Are we really gonna do this?
I thought this was a joke."

"I know, but Jon liked it."
So now we're kind of screwed.

-I was not giving up on this one.
-He wouldn't let us out of it.

I had a vision.

Deb was mad at us 'cause we decided.
She didn't think we were doing it.

"You have to show up today.
We're gonna do this."

Then I'm thinking, I have a flight...

And if my second-unit shoot goes long,
I have a good excuse. I've just gotta go.

And then I get a text from this guy,

"If you leave without shooting this scene,
I will never let you hear the end of it."

Now I'm weighing my options.

I'm like, "Okay, so I cannot shoot this
and be happy with that,

"but I have to weigh that against Jon

-"having something to give me crap about."
-KENNEDY: Constant harassment.

He already gives me crap
about a bunch of things,

like the cartoon, the Daytime Emmys.
Different things, you give me a little...

-I'm just jealous.
-I know. Well, that's fine. Just fine.

FAVREAU: I was only nominated
for a Daytime Emmy.

-FILONI: You can come look at mine.
-So I talk a big game.

So I'm weighing, am I gonna do this?
Am I not gonna do this?

I finally decide, you know what?
I'm gonna do it.

There's something valuable in it.
And I always take...

Coming as an actor, there's so much
that I can learn from that,

'cause I don't deal with
live-action actors in this way.

You've given me so much knowledge...

Playing the X-wing gave you insight...

It actually did.
I had to tell you, it did,

because what it was, was like,

okay, what is their preparation like,
from having to put a costume on...

-True. It is vulnerable.
-FILONI: What is that fit like?

Now they gotta walk onstage.

Now there's all these people
waiting for you.

Now you're getting in there,
and it almost felt like,

the closer I got to the X-wing cockpit,
the narrower my vision was getting,

'cause there's so many people
and all these lights,

and the X-wing itself was a funny story.

'Cause that wasn't a normal
buck that you sat in.

-It was a whole X-wing...
-It was a whole X-wing.

How did we get it? 'Cause we're very...
We use all parts of the buffalo here.

FILONI: It was for Galaxy's Edge...

FAVREAU: It was shipped down to Florida.
FILONI: To Orlando, Florida.

FAVREAU: For the theme park.

The X-wing you see in Orlando, Florida,

is the X-wing cockpit
that we all sat in, in Mandalorian.

The one sitting outside.

FAVREAU: What's your character's name,
by the way?

(STUTTERS) Trapper Wolf.

Trapper Wolf sat in.

FILONI: But the thing is this.

I couldn't believe we didn't have
an X-wing cockpit in California.

Like, you gotta be kidding me.
That's insane.

-They brought it...
-FILONI: We kind of hijacked it.

FAVREAU: We hijacked it.
It was being transported.

-We pulled it off.
-FILONI: We cut it up.

Because it had to be reinforced
for storms or whatever.

FILONI: There's a big steel bar
right where you put a chair.

FAVREAU: So we had to remove it
and replace it, and he...

FILONI: Chuck a seat in there.

And then they put...
They dressed that thing up.

Looked like an X-wing
with lights and everything.

But we had to climb up there
in this platform, way off the ground.

It should've been right here.

And so I'm up a ladder in this.

-I look like a grapefruit in this outfit.
-FAVREAU: Yes.

FILONI: And I get in this seat...

-It's not your color.
-FILONI: It's not my color.

And it felt dangerous getting in there.
And then you're...

-There was no dialogue for these pilots...
-So I had to give you some.

-...and then on the day you decided...
-I would feed you lines.

You were like, "Say something like,
'They're launching a gunship.'"

And I'm like, "Okay."
"And don't be interesting."

Yeah, that's a gunship.
All right, I'm going in. And then...

-FILONI: And then, it's so cool.
-FAVREAU: It's so cool.

You think I'm kidding you.
It is the coolest...

We're in a review
of Rick's first cut of this episode

and we're watching it,

and as we're watching it, it dawns on me,

I'm like, "No, we're about
to watch the X-wing scene."

And then we come out, I hear...
(IMITATING GUNSHOTS)

And everybody's just business,
and this guy is going out of his mind.

-I love it.
-It looked like found footage of...

-The fans are gonna love that sequence.
-Really B-rate, C-rate actors.

Wait'll you see cosplay.

But it looks like
what you would've had in the '70s.

-MAN: I copy, Gold Leader.
-We're starting for the target shaft.

We're in position. I'm going to cut
across the axis and draw their fire.

Are those X-wings?

Yep, that's definitely a tracking beacon.

Looks like they're launching a gunship.

Copy. Goin' in.

Is there anything to say

before we break up this party,
about anything?

-ROSENGRANT: Thank you.
-"Thank you"? Good. Thank all of you.

The most fun part I've had
on this show has been,

when I have a little idea or we talk about
something and we push it out there

and the art department
starts drawing cool stuff

then the people at ILM
start to come up with techniques

and styles and suggesting things.

It feels like we're an after-school club

that are making our own
YouTube videos of Star Wars.

And we have really rich parents.

FILONI: It's a cumulative excitement,

because you're excited about your idea,
I get excited hearing it,

Doug gets excited drawing it.

We look at the drawing and go,
"Oh, my gosh, there's more ideas,"

and so the energy builds on itself.

Once you accept that each step
is gonna get better than where it was...

Some people tried to hold on
to their original idea,

and nothing will be better
than that original idea,

and that suffocates the idea.

But in filmmaking, everything
has to progress forward,

and that's what this production
has done really well,

is that everybody gets on the same page
and carries the ball

farther down the field
than the step that came before.

We have some of the most amazing artists

and people with such extraordinary
good taste in what they're trying to do.

And they care so much
about what it is they're trying to do.

We're always operating at such a high bar
that, that pushes everybody.

It's Star Wars. It brings out the best.