Discussion The Mandalorian and Grogu - Releasing May 22, 2026

My favorite part of that article was that the whole thing was written like Imperial Warlord was his name.

 

So I know technically filming has wrapped but… yesterday Lateef Crowder posted a story on insta basically a video of him
Driving somewhere and he tagged the insta handle of Pedro pascal
And wrote “ Bom dia” with a gif of what seems to be a small gladiator in front of a videogame controller (cannot see what the text is something like “ origins no control”?) and on the bottom of the video “stretch good papa!” And the Pedro pascal insta tag…
I mean
Sure looks like something you would do if Pedro pascal was shooting something in the suit?
But no idea
I have the picture but do not now how to upload

 

They could already be doing some small reshoots here and there.

 

May I ask how you know this for a fact?

 

Campea has never been a scooper or a person who has inside information. He's more just someone who reacts to new content. I wouldn't pay too much attention to whatever he says is going on behind the scenes.

 

I got confused and thought Jeremy Allen White was going to play Truman Capote the Hutt, but then I forgot that he was killed off in TCW

 

You know you're talking to Serpico Jones, right?

 

Billions of dollars of technology just so you can direct from home. Its really the future.

I wouldnt totally dismiss campea having sources. He leaked an image from Spiderman: No way home that was sent by a source. He only leaked it because he thought it might he fake. Turned out it wasnt and was infact a huge. Still amazed he didnt get in trouble for that.

 

Sounds a bit weird to me. Unless they have a ton of 2nd unit shooting to do, typical huge action scenes that do not require a lot of actors with lines on set etc. Though, as mentioned above: Modern filmmaking can be done from home. With so many different elements needed to integrate with each other, and so many departments working on the film at the same time - it means you can have a better overview from home through technology availible. So, being on set for like 30% of the total time for the main director, might be accurate. It might work for this type of production.

 

I once was lucky enough to talk to someone who worked on the second season of The Mandalorian. We had mutual friends who worked in the entertainment industry. Favreau was never around and only showed up when he knew something cool was going to be shot like an action scene or something. His “scripts” were also a running joke on the set.

 

Name??? Just kidding but you aren't necessarily the most reliable source on here as you seem to like to dig into gossip. And you know most of the time gossip is just that. Also a little suspect about people sharing dirty laundry within the industry to people they don't know.

 

Sounds like maybe a kernel of truth mixed with tons and tons of nonsense. E.g. Favreau may not always have been on set, but everything beyond that would range somewhere between hearsay, badmouthing and saying stuff for the sake of saying stuff. Some people who claim to work on shows love to pretend they know far more than they actually do. Unless you were rather high up in the hierachy, you would have zero clue about the internal workings of a tv-show or what the creative leads thought. But it sure sounds lovely when you can pretend in front of someone else that you know what everyone "really" thought. And if someone doesn't like a person, the occasional absence turns into hing being "barely around", and in truth everyone but the person was responsible for what worked well before anyway (see Lucas and the OT when the PT-backlash happened).

The whole thing is an utterly useless argument to begin with. For one, an executive producer or story creator doesn't need to be on set all the time. George Lucas sure as heck wasn't for Empire strikes Back or Temple of Doom. Even a director wouldn't be around for everything. There is reason why you have a 2nd unit after all. In case of the Mandalorian tv-show, Favreau barely directed any episodes, so why would he be on set all the time? The same claims could likely be made about Filoni, who also wouldn't have much of a reason to be around all the time, but he's the golden boy of some people, so they wouldn't dare to go after him.

 

Also in general aren't the "scripts' only known by a very small number of people. So sounds a little odd that there would be 'running jokes' about the scripts on set. And I highly doubt the people who are in positions to know what the scripts are are running their mouths to people who are only a friend of a friend.

 

Tbf, Faverau wasn’t listed as a director on any of the episodes of Mando s2, so I can see why he wouldn’t be around as much for that stuff. That said, he’s supposed to be the director of this movie, so if what campea says is true, then I have a bad feeling about this.

 

The thing about this is that I am not excited about it at all. In fact, I am more excited for season 4 of the Legends of Vox Machina than I am about really anything Star Wars as of late. Too many cancellations and quite frankly I'm not digging anymore the Filoniverse. It's boring and convoluted. I think Star Wars needs to move 500 years into the future and they need to tell new stories with new characters, ships, weapons, planets. Everything just feels bland and this movie isn't really going to shake the core. Something tells me that its not.

 

I believe he directed the Marshal episode (S2, E01)

The one with the giant sand worm.

Im not sure about that logic. 2nd unit directs very little really. The director really does need to be around do actually direct. Unless the film is just a lot of nothing going on.

 

@Daxon101 you misquoted me.

 

The script thing specifically is weird. We know that Robert Rodriquez mentioned that the script for his episode of The Mandalorian s2 was only a few pages long, but it was a very short episode without much dialogue; very action heavy. That wouldn't have been worth the mention if all the scripts for every episode were like that. I don't even know how that would be feasible, unless you're improvising heavily on set... which doesn't track, since the dialogue has a very consistent tone and feel that I don't think individual on-set directors would get from episode to episode, and it's hard to improvise on effects-heavy productions.

 

Ah you all look alike to me

 

Unless this supposed person Serpico was talking to was one of the main people of the crew I doubt they would even be aware of what the scripts were like.

 

I learned to not take anything he says seriously when he ranted bout ahsoka beating maul

 

I’m not the only one who has heard this. Film Critic Hulk has written the same thing about Favreau and the fact that people working on the show are frustrated that he’s never around.

 

You mean like a high level television producer?

You know that’s not analogous to a director in a feature film, right?

 

Who??????? Goes on to Google the name. Has three or four different links that state 'Join my patreon'.

I think you pay attention to too many of these folks.

 

Unless there's talk of abuse, discrimination or other forms of misconduct behind the scenes, why care? Why not just judge a film by what you personally experience when you watch it?