The Mandalorian

[King Bob]

We decided to subscribe to Disney+ (we both want to watch the Jeff Goldblum series) so I'll watch this now.

Also ran across this article about the Lucas films that was good.[url=https://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/11/the-lie-of-star-wars-as-entertainment/][/url]

[Drunk Monk]

Star Wars Writer Promises To Help Get Danny Trejo In The Mandalorian
Rogue One writer Gary Whitta's new Animal Talking webseries featured Danny Trejo as a guest, and the legendary actor wants a role in The Mandalorian.

• by Zak Wojnar
  
  
  
  
  Danny Trejo wants a role in [b]The Mandalorian, and Star Wars: Rogue One writer Gary Whitta is going to do what he can do to make his dream come true. Best known for writing the acclaimed Star Wars spin-off film, Gary Whitta has become an even bigger celebrity thanks to his quarantine talk show, Animal Talking. Created entirely within Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Animal Talking has guests appear through their in-game avatars, with Whitta's house redesigned to look like a late-night talk show studio. It's certainly a new spin on the classic talk show formula, and the series has quickly established itself as destination viewing during these content-dry quarantine months.[/b]
  
  
• Meanwhile, [i]The Mandalorian[/i] is the hottest new show on Disney+. The first-ever live-action Star Wars television series stars Pedro Pascal as a bounty hunter on the run from his former allies when he chooses to protect, rather than eliminate, "The Child," better known to the fandom as Baby Yoda. Season two of the series wrapped production before the Coronavirus pandemic caused Hollywood to shut down; with post-production being completed remotely, the sophomore season of the Star Wars show is not expected to be delayed beyond its established October 2020 release date.
  
  
• In the latest episode of Animal Talking on Twitch, Danny Trejo stopped by to discuss his life and career, and the conversation inevitably turned to Star Wars. After Danny Trejo expressed an interest in appearing on The Mandalorian, Whitta excitedly promised he'd call LucasFilm's Dave Filoni to try to get the tough-guy actor on future seasons, even joking that Trejo would play "The Mexalorian."
           
  
  The Mandalorian is mainly set in the Outer Rim, a region of the Star Wars galaxy where the Republic (or the Empire before them) have little influence. Akin to America's old Wild West, criminal syndicates in the Outer Rim rule with an iron fist, while bounty hunters offer a less-than-wholesome version of law enforcement, asking no questions and taking no prisoners in their pursuit of financial compensation for their dirty work.In the latest episode of Animal Talking on Twitch, Danny Trejo stopped by to discuss his life and career, and the conversation inevitably turned to Star Wars. After Danny Trejo expressed an interest in appearing on The Mandalorian, Whitta excitedly promised he'd call LucasFilm's Dave Filoni to try to get the tough-guy actor on future seasons, even joking that Trejo would play "The Mexalorian."
  
           
  
  
  The Mandalorian is mainly set in the Outer Rim, a region of the Star Wars galaxy where the Republic (or the Empire before them) have little influence. Akin to America's old Wild West, criminal syndicates in the Outer Rim rule with an iron fist, while bounty hunters offer a less-than-wholesome version of law enforcement, asking no questions and taking no prisoners in their pursuit of financial compensation for their dirty work.
  

Danny Trejo wants a role in The Mandalorian, and Star Wars: Rogue One writer Gary Whitta is going to do what he can do to make his dream come true. Best known for writing the acclaimed Star Wars spin-off film, Gary Whitta has become an even bigger celebrity thanks to his quarantine talk show, Animal Talking. Created entirely within Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Animal Talking has guests appear through their in-game avatars, with Whitta's house redesigned to look like a late-night talk show studio. It's certainly a new spin on the classic talk show formula, and the series has quickly established itself as destination viewing during these content-dry quarantine months.  
Meanwhile, The Mandalorian is the hottest new show on Disney+. The first-ever live-action Star Wars television series stars Pedro Pascal as a bounty hunter on the run from his former allies when he chooses to protect, rather than eliminate, "The Child," better known to the fandom as Baby Yoda. Season two of the series wrapped production before the Coronavirus pandemic caused Hollywood to shut down; with post-production being completed remotely, the sophomore season of the Star Wars show is not expected to be delayed beyond its established October 2020 release date.
In the latest episode of Animal Talking on Twitch, Danny Trejo stopped by to discuss his life and career, and the conversation inevitably turned to Star Wars. After Danny Trejo expressed an interest in appearing on The Mandalorian, Whitta excitedly promised he'd call LucasFilm's Dave Filoni to try to get the tough-guy actor on future seasons, even joking that Trejo would play "The Mexalorian."
         

The Mandalorian is mainly set in the Outer Rim, a region of the Star Wars galaxy where the Republic (or the Empire before them) have little influence. Akin to America's old Wild West, criminal syndicates in the Outer Rim rule with an iron fist, while bounty hunters offer a less-than-wholesome version of law enforcement, asking no questions and taking no prisoners in their pursuit of financial compensation for their dirty work.
Season one of The Mandalorian featured Carl Weathers as a grizzled old bounty hunter, while the upcoming season two will include The Terminator and Aliens star Michael Biehn, presumably as another hard-edged mercenary. If there's a corner of the Star Wars universe in which a figure as intimidating as Denny Trejo can fit in, it's The Mandalorian. With his long career of playing badass action roles like Machete, Danny Trejo would be right at home in The Mandalorian's galaxy of drifters and gunslingers.

I can't even...

[King Bob]

Watched the first two episodes. I thought each had about five minutes of real story among too many action sequences. Not sure I'll keep going.

[Drunk Monk]

too many action sequences. 

what does that even mean?

[King Bob]

A big chunk of this was the main character killing a bunch of nameless bit characters. Maybe the sequence with the animal that looked like an Elasmotherium was needed because it showed the Child using the Force, but I was still bored. I guess I'm losing my interest in action flicks.

[Drunk Monk]

It's really all about Baby Yoda and Cara Dune, and a crap-ton of clever easter eggs from across the galaxy of franchises.

[Greg]

Oh my god. I feel like I'm a monkey and I just a computer.

I'm watching the making of series. The first three episodes were fine but nothing earth shattering. They talked to the directors. They talked about how it came together. They talked to the actors. Gina fans will find it interesting. It was pretty typical making of stuff. They just spent a lot more time talking about it.

Then there is episode 4. Episode 4 is entitled Technology. It shows how the series was made. And the way The Mandalorian was made blew my mind.

I thought they shot a lot of it on location. Maybe just one location that they redressed to show different locations. A lot of it was on the desert planets, I figured they just shifted around. Nope. Not even a little.

Jon Favreau builds on the technology he started with The Jungle Book and refined with The Lion King. At the time he talked about filming inside a video game engine and I didn't quite get it.

Well, The Mandalorian takes it one step further. They built a 360 degree stage that they surrounded with high def video screens. There is also video screen roof. What they do is project the scenes on the screens and film the actors against it. The Screens are so bright they light the actors. Plus the reflections on the metal surfaces are just reflections of the vid screens.

The main thing that was bringing me to the floor was the fact that the cameras are in sync with the vid screens. As, the cameras move the backgrounds change to keep parallax perfect relative to the camera. That is the game engine bit.

You kind of have to see it to understand it. They almost totally do away with green screens so they don't have to do the laborious process of green screen removal. It was amazing.

They call the stage The Void. I want to go to there. It was amazing. The show is still burning my head.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

They are using the same technology they used to make the Mandalorian on the next Thor movie, only bigger. I guess Taika liked what he saw when he filmed an episode of The Mandalorian.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

This is the way.

[thatguy]

I've seen references to it in reviews elsewhere, but after watching the first 3 episodes, I can't help but compare it to a Japanese TV show my dad and I used to watch on Channel 26. It was in Japanese, with English subtitles. My dad called it "Samurai Babysitter".


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_...ion_series

"Refusing to kill themselves and fighting free from their house imprisonment, father and son begin wandering the country as "demons"—the assassin-for-hire team that becomes known as Lone Wolf and Cub, vowing to destroy the Yagyū clan to avenge Azami's death and Ittō's disgrace."

I probably need to watch more Mandalorian to get some storyline, but it seems like a weak soup.

--tg
PS: My brain keeps wanting to substitute "mitachlorians" for "Mandalorian"

[Greg]

Lone wolf and cub

[Drunk Monk]

Kozure Ogami

It gets better tg, especially when Cara Dune shows up. 

Have y'all been following the Pascal rumor?

The Mandalorian: What We Know About That Weird Pedro Pascal Rumor

September 24, 2020by AMANDA PRAHL

Strange rumors are nothing new in the [b]Star Wars[/b] world, but if the internet has you wondering if Pedro Pascal left [b]The Mandalorian[/b], we can set you at ease. The so-called leak ahead of season two has had fans in a tizzy, but a closer look at it seems to pretty well debunk the idea that Pascal has left Din Djarin's armor behind.

Unsurprisingly, the rumor started with — you guessed it — social media. YouTuber Grace Randolph, who's posted inaccurate "leaks" before (mostly about DC Extended Universe projects), claimed in a reaction video to the season two trailer that Pascal had quit halfway through filming because he was upset about never getting to show his face. She claimed that Pascal wanted to have more scenes with Din Djarin's helmet off, was told no, and "became difficult" to the point of trying to get the Lucasfilm higher-ups to intervene on his behalf. The result, Randolph claimed, was the [b]Mandalorian[/b] team telling Pascal, "You should just go." Later, another YouTuber "corroborated" the rumors and upped the ante, claiming Pascal was complaining directly to George Lucas (who, it should be noted, is no longer in charge of Lucasfilm in any practical capacity).

There are just a few problems with this rumor, though (other than them not being confirmed by any reliable source). First, Pascal has famously had a good relationship with the [b]Mandalorian[/b] team. One of his stunt doubles, Brendan Wayne, told Vulture in 2019 that, "He's just an actor. And I mean that in the good way, not the bad way. He likes to learn and he likes to collaborate and he's very good at it." Costar Gina Carano, who plays ex-shocktrooper Cara Dune, also told [b]Entertainment Weekly[/b] how Pascal helped her with her scenes by removing the helmet when the camera was on her. "I really wanted to see his eyes, which really helped," she explained.

The other issue is that social media from the production team itself doesn't seem to corroborate the rumor. Phil Szostak, who is the creative art manager at Lucasfilm, tweeted in August about visiting the set of [b]The Mandalorian[/b] in February, during "the last of many months of shooting... I got to give the titular Mando himself, Pedro Pascal, a "hey there" on the way out." The rumor that Pascal left the show hinges on the idea that he left mid-season and didn't come back, which wouldn't match up with Szostak's anecdote about chatting with him near the end of production. All in all, it seems to be the kind of rumor that draws a lot of attention without much to back it up.

[Greg]

It's funny that for a lot of the first season, Pedro wasn't even in the armor. He only did voice work. They talk about it in the BTS series on Disney+ He thanks his stunt person who was in the suit.